[R] Package parallel missing from CRAN_package_db

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 09/05/2018 8:23 AM, Luí­s Moreira de Sousa via R-help wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am using the CRAN_package_db function to determine whether the head versions of certain packages match those I need. The parallel package though, is missing from the database:
> 
>> pdb <- tools:::CRAN_package_db()
>> pdb[pdb$Package=="parallel",]["Package"]
> [1] Package
> <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
> 
> Is this a bug that needs to be reported (where?) ? Or is there other reason for this package to be missing from the database?

parallel is a base package.  By definition, it is updated only when R is 
updated.  You can't install it from CRAN unless you install all of R.

Duncan Murdoch