A fairly obvious search strategy (again) does locate the answer but my
inclination to offer is greatly diminished by your offlist response to
my prior efforts.
--
David
On Nov 28, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Jason Rupert wrote:
How do the R "powers that be" handle packages that are orphaned from
CRAN?
Recently, I was looking for a function either part of the base
functionality or an add-on package that mimicked the "poly"
functionality from Octave (http://n4.nabble.com/Re-R-function-that-duplicates-Octave-s-poly-function-td901174.html
)
Based on that post a helpful R user strongly encouraged me to look
at the "signal" package.
cran.es.r-project.org/web/packages/signal/index.html
Unfortunately, when clicking through on that link the following is
received:
Package ‘signal’ was removed from the CRAN repository.
Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive.
It appears that the "signal" package was part of those contributed
to 2.8, but was not maintained after that, i.e. is not part of 2.9
or 2.10:
http://mira.sunsite.utk.edu/CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/2.8/
I'm still pretty new to the package concept in R and how those are
maintained, updated, deprecated, etc., so any insight about how this
and other similar packages like this are handled is very helpful.
Thanks again for the great insights offered by all those R wonderful
R users and maintainers and contributors out there. It is truly
great to see a community be this productive.
P.S. For the time being, I suppose it is okay to continue to use
the signal package that was contributed to the 2.8 Version until it
no longer functions properly as the architecture continues to
advance (which is great).
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