From andy_liaw at merck.com  Mon Apr 26 01:55:22 2004
From: andy_liaw at merck.com (Liaw, Andy)
Date: Mon Apr 26 01:55:49 2004
Subject: [Rd] package fdim slopeopt error (PR#6819)
Message-ID: <3A822319EB35174CA3714066D590DCD504AF7C7D@usrymx25.merck.com>

> From: Fred J. [mailto:phddas@yahoo.com] 
> 
> thanks Andy 
> last paragraph of the link you indicated 
> " Bug reports on contributed packages should perhaps
> be sent to the package maintainer rather than to
> R-bugs. "
> the maintainer (Francisco Javier Martinez de Pison.
> francisco.martinez@dim.unirioja.es) has a bad email
> address and therefore can't be reached.

Then the package will probably get the "orphaned" status.  If/when it no
longer passes package checks for new version of R, it will disappear from
the main CRAN directory.

Basically the package author/maintainer is the only person who can supply
patched version of the package, and probably the best qualified person to do
so, too.  There's no use filing to R-bugs for bugs in contributed packages.
Do you really expect the R Core developers to fix bugs in contributed
packages?

Andy
 
> thanks
> Fred J.
> 
> --- "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw@merck.com> wrote:
> > Please read the last paragraph of
> >
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How%20to%20report
%20a%20bug.
> 
> Andy
> 



	
		
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[Rd] package fdim slopeopt error (PR#6819)
Liaw, Andy