Dear Martin, The most interesting functionality in 'robust', that I see, is the possibility to compare visually two or more different models. And maybe some people are used to and prefer the interface of 'robust'. Or some data sets.
I rebuilt it and can take over the maintenance for the next "couple of years" as you said. And no, rrcovNA is not archived, see https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rrcovNA/index.html Best regards, Valentin On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 17:20, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: > >>>>> Valentin Todorov > >>>>> on Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:31:21 +0100 writes: > > > Dear Martin, > > I was thinking of this since Kjell > > abandoned the package, but I was not sure to what extent would this > be > > necessary - most of the functionality of 'robust' we already moved to > > 'robustbase' and/or 'rrcov', therefore it suggests/imports these > packages. > > Let us see in the next days what still remains there and is valuable > and > > decide what to do. > > > Best regards, > > Valentin > > Thank you, Valentin. > > I had similar thoughts a long time ago, I think prompted > indepedently by Kjell and Doug Martin ... > > I vaguely remember I found that there have been things in > 'Robust' which looked valuable and notably good to have for > comparison reasons, > *but* that were a lot work to "tear out" of the robust package > (including the necessary underlying Fortran code, but *not* > taking all the Fortran code that would *not* be needed ...). > > In the mean time the CRAN team has archived the package > 'robust', and I must adapt the 'Robustness' CRAN task view > considerably (and remove the 'Suggests: robust' from my > robustbase package. > > I'd be grateful for help and suggestions in still trying > 'salvage' valuable resources out of 'robust'. > > BTW: Why has rrcovNA be archived? > > Best, > Martin > > > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2020, 11:03 am Martin Maechler, < > maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> > > wrote: > > >> Dear R Robustniks, > >> > >> as I am the maintainer of package 'robustbase' and am submitting > >> a new version of it to CRAN, > >> it came to my knowledge that package 'robust' (= the original > >> S-plus "Library 'robust', then released to CRAN, maintained by > >> Kjell Konis for time) has been orphaned on CRAN relatively > >> recently. > >> As I have 'robust' among the 'Suggests: ' entries of "my" > >> package 'robustbase' I now get a NOTE about suggesting an > >> orphaned package. > >> I've been formally a co-author of that package (togeth > >> > >> I personally would think it to be a loss for the "robustnik > >> community" if this package would not remain easily available > >> (notably on Windows, also the Mac where most people cannot > >> install package from the source but are used to install the > >> binary built package from CRAN). > >> > >> Are some you willing and capable to become the maintainer of > >> 'robust' (with the perspective to do this for a couple of years)? > >> > >> Best, > >> Martin > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Robust@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-robust
