Hello all, I am interested in updating a CRAN package which has the primary purpose of serving a particular government database. This package has seen no activity since 2014 and is now out-of-date. I have contacted the maintainer email (waited several weeks) to offer to update the package but received no response.
What should I do? I assume that I cannot simply fix the package, change the maintainer email, and submit to CRAN because I don't think the package has not been officially orphaned. The official instructions say this: > Everybody is more than welcome to take over as maintainer of an orphaned package. Simply download the package sources, make changes if necessary (respecting original author and license!) and resubmit the package to CRAN with your name as maintainer in the DESCRIPTION file of the package. The reason I am not sure if it has been orphaned is that I am having trouble viewing the orphaned package listing. The following page is blank for me (shows no package listings): https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Orphaned -jsta ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
