[R-pkg-devel] puzzling removal of 'dotwhisker' from CRAN

2024-04-18 Thread Ben Bolker
The 'dotwhisker' package was archived on CRAN: from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dotwhisker/index.html Package ‘dotwhisker’ was removed from the CRAN repository ... Archived on 2024-04-12 as requires archived package 'prediction'. However, I can't for the life of

Re: [R-pkg-devel] puzzling removal of 'dotwhisker' from CRAN

2024-04-18 Thread Thierry Onkelinx
The cascade is even longer. prediction got archived because ffbase was no longer available. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ffbase/ ir. Thierry Onkelinx Statisticus / Statistician Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR

Re: [R-pkg-devel] puzzling removal of 'dotwhisker' from CRAN

2024-04-18 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 18.04.2024 15:43, Ben Bolker wrote:  To clarify, from an off-list conversation:   AFAICT the chain is   dotwhisker Imports margins, which Imports    prediction, which Enhances ffbase  (archived in 2022 for 'coercion to logical' problems)  (that conversation also

Re: [R-pkg-devel] puzzling removal of 'dotwhisker' from CRAN

2024-04-18 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 18.04.2024 15:48, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 18.04.2024 15:43, Ben Bolker wrote:   To clarify, from an off-list conversation:    AFAICT the chain is    dotwhisker Imports   margins, which Imports     prediction, which Enhances   ffbase  (archived in 2022 for 'coercion to

Re: [R-pkg-devel] puzzling removal of 'dotwhisker' from CRAN

2024-04-18 Thread Ben Bolker
On 2024-04-18 9:41 a.m., Uwe Ligges wrote: On 18.04.2024 15:35, Ben Bolker wrote:     Yes, but ffbase was archived a long time ago (2022-04-04) and CRAN has apparently just caught up to checking.  What's a little frustrating (to me) is that the dependence of prediction on ffbase is

Re: [R-pkg-devel] puzzling removal of 'dotwhisker' from CRAN

2024-04-18 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 18.04.2024 15:35, Ben Bolker wrote:    Yes, but ffbase was archived a long time ago (2022-04-04) and CRAN has apparently just caught up to checking.  What's a little frustrating (to me) is that the dependence of prediction on ffbase is *very* soft ("enhances") ... No, but CRAN has

Re: [R-pkg-devel] puzzling removal of 'dotwhisker' from CRAN

2024-04-18 Thread Ben Bolker
To clarify, from an off-list conversation: AFAICT the chain is dotwhisker Imports margins, which Imports prediction, which Enhances ffbase (archived in 2022 for 'coercion to logical' problems) (that conversation also pointed out that Enhances is a dependency *in

Re: [R-pkg-devel] puzzling removal of 'dotwhisker' from CRAN

2024-04-18 Thread Josiah Parry
Well, after trying to install the package, I believe the issue is because margins has been archived. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/margins/index.html You can check recursive dependencies using `tools::package_dependencies("pkg", recursive = TRUE)` which would help you in this case. I

Re: [R-pkg-devel] puzzling removal of 'dotwhisker' from CRAN

2024-04-18 Thread Ben Bolker
Yes, but ffbase was archived a long time ago (2022-04-04) and CRAN has apparently just caught up to checking. What's a little frustrating (to me) is that the dependence of prediction on ffbase is *very* soft ("enhances") ... On 2024-04-18 9:28 a.m., Thierry Onkelinx wrote: The cascade is

Re: [R-pkg-devel] puzzling removal of 'dotwhisker' from CRAN

2024-04-18 Thread Ben Bolker
Thank you! (I know about package_dependencies() but ran into precisely the same problem and didn't want to re-implement it ...) On 2024-04-18 9:11 a.m., Josiah Parry wrote: Well, after trying to install the package, I believe the issue is because margins has been archived.

Re: [R-pkg-devel] puzzling removal of 'dotwhisker' from CRAN

2024-04-18 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 6:41 AM Uwe Ligges wrote: > > On 18.04.2024 15:35, Ben Bolker wrote: > > Yes, but ffbase was archived a long time ago (2022-04-04) and CRAN > > has apparently just caught up to checking. What's a little frustrating > > (to me) is that the dependence of prediction on