From murdoch.duncan at gmail.com  Thu Mar 19 20:26:06 2015
From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:26:06 -0400
Subject: [Rd] CRAN binary, but no source
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On 19/03/2015 2:55 PM, peter dalgaard wrote:
> > On 19 Mar 2015, at 19:45 , G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> > wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >>
> >> In github? ;-)
> >>
> >
> > Well, that's the thing. If github/cran is a read-only mirror, then should I
> > delete these versions from there, too? :) On CRAN not just the files are
> > missing, but these versions are also missing from the RDS database. So they
> > won't be coming back I assume?
> >
>
> Perhaps you should stop guessing and start asking the CRAN maintainers? Hint: cran at r-project.org
>

I did: the problem was that the source had a license violation, so CRAN 
can't keep it online.  (It had some GPL-3 code, but was released under 
GPL-2.)

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] CRAN binary, but no source
Duncan Murdoch