Message-ID: <550B22CE.8060404@gmail.com>
Date: 2015-03-19T19:26:06Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: CRAN binary, but no source
In-Reply-To: <28AFB5E4-0432-4C61-97EB-6E9F3C1A6C58@gmail.com>
On 19/03/2015 2:55 PM, peter dalgaard wrote:
> > On 19 Mar 2015, at 19:45 , G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> > wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >>
> >> In github? ;-)
> >>
> >
> > Well, that's the thing. If github/cran is a read-only mirror, then should I
> > delete these versions from there, too? :) On CRAN not just the files are
> > missing, but these versions are also missing from the RDS database. So they
> > won't be coming back I assume?
> >
>
> Perhaps you should stop guessing and start asking the CRAN maintainers? Hint: cran at r-project.org
>
I did: the problem was that the source had a license violation, so CRAN
can't keep it online. (It had some GPL-3 code, but was released under
GPL-2.)
Duncan Murdoch