Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401260719410.27955-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2004-01-26T07:29:59Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: orphaned packages
In-Reply-To: <Law15-F3055K9v7xA0000041a91@hotmail.com>
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Neil Eastep wrote:
> Are there many packages that are orphaned, and have a better "half" much
> like bootstrap?
Not many are orphaned -- currently precisely two although one previously
orphaned has acquired a new maintainer recently. I suspect a few more
have non-responsive maintainers.
> Is there a listing, or directory of "recommended" packages (other than the
> packages downloaded with the initial R install)?
It is precisely the set that come with the R distribution.
The CRAN packages page lists both the priority (possibly "recommended")
and maintainer (possibly ORPHANED). The daily check page
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/checkSummary.html
lists those as well as the result of the latest checks (although today's
list seems missing results for the last few packages).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neil Eastep.
> An "R" newbie
>
> -----------
> Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> >>Package bootstrap is orphaned, that is no longer maintained.
> >>Package boot is much more comprehensive, and a recommended
> package.
> >>That suggests to me that you always use boot: I do.
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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