Package archived on CRAN

[antagomir]

This useful package is about to be removed from CRAN (orphaned). I can take over the maintenance at least for now, and see if it can be kept in CRAN.

If there are reasons for the orphaning it would be great to hear in order to avoid unnecessary work.

[mwmclean]

Thanks for the offer. Where is this info that it's about to be orphaned? Why have I, the actual maintainer, who still actually maintains the package not been contacted? My email listed on CRAN [here|https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RefManageR/index.html] still works and nobody's contacted me. I still want to maintain this and am not looking for a new maintainer. I know that one of my dependencies, bibtex, is orphaned, but I've never been contacted that that is a problem.

[antagomir]

It was CRAN standard announcement for reverse dependency maintainers after failure in emailing main author. Something gone wrong with the emails, good to hear that this is an active pkg.

[matmo]

The package has now been archived on CRAN due to a "policy violation", any news on why this has happened? This caused some other packages to be removed as well (eurostat, for example).

[antagomir]

Hi! Is there more information on what policy violation this is? Would be important to solve, we at eurostat pkg already started to receive emails asking what is going on with the takedown. If the policy violation is not mentioned in the error logs, I guess it would be possible ask from CRAN admins directly? Leo

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[mwmclean]

Sorry everyone. There was an error in my first attempt to move bibtex to Suggests. I was very surprised they would do this because I made clear to them the fix was very easy. I am confident the fix is sitting in master in this repo, just waiting for their confirmation/permission to submit it.

[antagomir]

Still not in CRAN - any updates?

[mwmclean]

I submitted on Friday, 30-Oct. They've thrown me in the newbie queue, so the package is undergoing their manual check for first time submissions.

[mwmclean]

Back on CRAN as of 2020-11-13.