[Rd] CRAN binary, but no source

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 19/03/2015 19:26, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 19/03/2015 2:55 PM, peter dalgaard wrote:
>> > On 19 Mar 2015, at 19:45 , Gábor Csárdi <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.)

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.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
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