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[R-pkg-devel] Re-submission of removed package

4 messages · Burak Ogan Mancarci, Ivan Krylov, Uwe Ligges

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I am an author but not the maintainer of the package staplr that was
recently removed from CRAN. I have been trying to reach the maintainer to
resubmit the package after the required fixes but was unsuccessful in
doing so. I have submitted the package myself but it appears that it
requires approval from the creator to finalise submission which I am unsure
if we'll get. What is the procedure to follow in this case?

Cheers,
Ogan
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:56:31 -0700
Ogan Mancarci <ogan.mancarci at gmail.com> wrote:

            
Would you like to become the maintainer instead?

Here's what CRAN policy has to say:
-- https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html

I think you can change the Maintainer: field and note the original
maintainer being unreachable in the submission comment. I would expect
it to take some time to confirm that the original maintainer is
actually unavailable.
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I would if the maintainer really is unavailable but it is possible that
it's just a rather long vacation so I'm happy to wait while, especially
since the package remains available on github regardless.

But just to confirm, there aren't any shorter term workarounds that'd bring
the package back without changing maintainers? If so I will give a bit more
time before re-submitting with myself as the maintainer.

Cheers,
Ogan
On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 2:16?PM Ivan Krylov <krylov.r00t at gmail.com> wrote:

            

  
  
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On 21.07.2023 00:56, Ogan Mancarci wrote:
Right.

Best,
Uwe Ligges