Message-ID: <2DA2309D-6AF2-40CA-8555-315D2434914C@comcast.net>
Date: 2009-11-28T22:41:19Z
From: David Winsemius
Subject: Orphaned R Packages (maybe this is too inside baseball?)
In-Reply-To: <245019.21798.qm@web56005.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
A fairly obvious search strategy (again) does locate the answer but my
inclination to offer is greatly diminished by your offlist response to
my prior efforts.
--
David
On Nov 28, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Jason Rupert wrote:
> How do the R "powers that be" handle packages that are orphaned from
> CRAN?
>
> Recently, I was looking for a function either part of the base
> functionality or an add-on package that mimicked the "poly"
> functionality from Octave (http://n4.nabble.com/Re-R-function-that-duplicates-Octave-s-poly-function-td901174.html
> )
>
> Based on that post a helpful R user strongly encouraged me to look
> at the "signal" package.
> cran.es.r-project.org/web/packages/signal/index.html
>
> Unfortunately, when clicking through on that link the following is
> received:
> Package ?signal? was removed from the CRAN repository.
> Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive.
>
>
> It appears that the "signal" package was part of those contributed
> to 2.8, but was not maintained after that, i.e. is not part of 2.9
> or 2.10:
> http://mira.sunsite.utk.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.8/
>
> I'm still pretty new to the package concept in R and how those are
> maintained, updated, deprecated, etc., so any insight about how this
> and other similar packages like this are handled is very helpful.
>
>
> Thanks again for the great insights offered by all those R wonderful
> R users and maintainers and contributors out there. It is truly
> great to see a community be this productive.
>
> P.S. For the time being, I suppose it is okay to continue to use
> the signal package that was contributed to the 2.8 Version until it
> no longer functions properly as the architecture continues to
> advance (which is great).
>
>
>
>
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT