From mxkuhn at gmail.com  Wed Sep 21 17:28:46 2016
From: mxkuhn at gmail.com (Max Kuhn)
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:28:46 -0400
Subject: [Rd] formal process for orphaning a package
Message-ID: <CAJ9CoW=EcE+Jw1u5UkOy81tY1MJqzVVdVxmAp1p3wEjp2bMeXA@mail.gmail.com>

The CRAN policy page
(https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html) implies that
there is a formal procedure for orphaning a package but none is
mentioned in the Extensions manual
(https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-exts.html).

This page (https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Orphaned/README)
implies that one would simply resubmit the package to CRAN with the
text "ORPHANED" in the `Maintainer` field.

Is this the case?

If this is not documented somewhere, can it be added to the Extensions manual?

Thanks,

Max



[Rd] formal process for orphaning a package
Max Kuhn