On Thu, 2016-11-03 at 18:38 +0100, Uwe Ligges wrote: > > On 03.11.2016 18:20, Joseph Stachelek 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 seen no activity since 2014 and is now out-of-date.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 > > Hard to say without knowing which package you are taking about. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > I am interested in the `dams` package. From Gabor's link it appears that I was not mistaken and it has not been orphaned.
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