Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package bioOED has been removed from CRAN just for personal reasons

2023-11-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023, David Hugh-Jones wrote: Aside from the package question, surely the other issue here is that Prof Ripley’s email is extraordinarily rude. Any paid employee would be sacked for that. I appreciate R and CRAN are volunteer-run organisations, but I don’t think that should be

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package bioOED has been removed from CRAN just for personal reasons

2023-11-03 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Guys, Martin, I am very sorry you spent all that time. I am sceptical that this is a correct interpretation of the law, given what I see on Twitter daily, and I would not take a university as an authority on this. But that is neither here nor there – if I made you waste your time, that's my bad

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package bioOED has been removed from CRAN just for personal reasons

2023-11-03 Thread Martin Maechler
Dear R-package-devel readers *and* notably writers, In Europe there are (diverse) laws about privacy etc, and those, (and/or some politeness) do not allow free citing of private e-mail communications in public nor ad hominem remarks in such public communication. For this reason, I (as mailing

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package bioOED has been removed from CRAN just for personal reasons

2023-11-02 Thread Spencer Graves
On 11/2/23 2:52 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 16:10:34 + David Hugh-Jones wrote: Aside from the package question, surely the other issue here is that Prof Ripley’s email is extraordinarily rude. Any paid employee would be sacked for that. I appreciate R and CRAN are

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package bioOED has been removed from CRAN just for personal reasons

2023-11-02 Thread Rolf Turner
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 16:10:34 + David Hugh-Jones wrote: > Aside from the package question, surely the other issue here is that > Prof Ripley’s email is extraordinarily rude. Any paid employee would > be sacked for that. I appreciate R and CRAN are volunteer-run > organisations, but I don’t

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package bioOED has been removed from CRAN just for personal reasons

2023-11-02 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Aside from the package question, surely the other issue here is that Prof Ripley’s email is extraordinarily rude. Any paid employee would be sacked for that. I appreciate R and CRAN are volunteer-run organisations, but I don’t think that should be an excuse for this level of, frankly, toxicity.

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package bioOED has been removed from CRAN just for personal reasons

2023-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/11/2023 2:54 p.m., Markus Jochim wrote: Dear Alberto, I have had a small number of CRAN-related email exchanges with Brian Ripley that made it clear that his idea of politeness and my idea of politeness are incompatible. The email you are quoting reminds me very much of these exchanges.

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package bioOED has been removed from CRAN just for personal reasons

2023-11-01 Thread Markus Jochim
Dear Alberto, I have had a small number of CRAN-related email exchanges with Brian Ripley that made it clear that his idea of politeness and my idea of politeness are incompatible. The email you are quoting reminds me very much of these exchanges. But I try to be pragmatic about it. It’s

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package bioOED has been removed from CRAN just for personal reasons

2023-11-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/11/2023 8:35 a.m., Tomas Kalibera wrote: On 11/1/23 12:15, Alberto Garre wrote: Dear community, I feel dismay for having to write this email, but the issue must be brought up. On the 20th of October, I received an email from CRAN warning me of an issue with one of the packages I

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package bioOED has been removed from CRAN just for personal reasons

2023-11-01 Thread Tomas Kalibera
On 11/1/23 12:15, Alberto Garre wrote: Dear community, I feel dismay for having to write this email, but the issue must be brought up. On the 20th of October, I received an email from CRAN warning me of an issue with one of the packages I maintain (bioOED). The package depended on MEIGOR, a

[R-pkg-devel] Package bioOED has been removed from CRAN just for personal reasons

2023-11-01 Thread Alberto Garre
Dear community, I feel dismay for having to write this email, but the issue must be brought up. On the 20th of October, I received an email from CRAN warning me of an issue with one of the packages I maintain (bioOED). The package depended on MEIGOR, a package that was no longer available in