[R] npmc package

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Kjetil Holuerson wrote:

> Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>>> "Carlos" == Carlos Mauricio Cardeal Mendes <mcardeal at ufba.br>
>>>>>>>     on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:11:32 -0300 writes:
>>
>>     Carlos> So, is there another package to substitute those
>>     Carlos> functions described on "ORPHANED" npmc package ?
>>
>> May be not.
>> But nobody stops you from becoming the new maintainer of the
>
> Just checked. This package is not  now in the ORPHANES
> subdirectory, neither in the main CRAN  listing.

See http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/N/

The Orphaned (sic) subdirectory applies to packages dropped by the former 
maintainer which no longer pass R CMD check, and also to those where the 
CRAN maintainers are able to deduce it has been dropped.  Others which 
just fail without a positive indication of no active maintainer may end in 
the archive.

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