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Gabor On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Joseph Stachelek <stach...@msu.edu> wrote: > 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 seen no activity since 2014 and is now out-of-date.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 ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
