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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:14:14 -0400
Subject: [Rd] CRAN binary, but no source
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:
[...]
>
> Two places to look for such information on CRAN:
>
> - Where a fair amount of information needs to be given (like exactly which
> versions have been removed), there may be a README in the Archive
> directory.  E.g. http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/sdcTable/
> README , and I have added one for Rglpk.
>
> - There is a DCF file http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.in
> which acts as the database which R CMD check --as-cran consults.  That
> contains concise records of archival and removal.  Its coverage is pretty
> good for the last three years.


Ah, yes, I forgot about PACKAGES.in. (Which I actually parse in another
project.) I guess I was mostly puzzled by the non-removal of the binary
package. (Which is just temporary, and it will be removed as soon as 0.6-0
is available for that platform.)

Thanks to everyone who replied, including CRAN maintainers in private.
Gabor

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