package fdim slopeopt error (PR#6819)

From: Fred J. [mailto:phddas@yahoo.com] 

thanks Andy 
last paragraph of the link you indicated 
" Bug reports on contributed packages should perhaps
be sent to the package maintainer rather than to
R-bugs. "
the maintainer (Francisco Javier Martinez de Pison.
francisco.martinez@dim.unirioja.es) has a bad email
address and therefore can't be reached.

Then the package will probably get the "orphaned" status.  If/when it no
longer passes package checks for new version of R, it will disappear from
the main CRAN directory.

Basically the package author/maintainer is the only person who can supply
patched version of the package, and probably the best qualified person to do
so, too.  There's no use filing to R-bugs for bugs in contributed packages.
Do you really expect the R Core developers to fix bugs in contributed
packages?