Will checkpointing library still work after July 2023?

[Stivo]

Reading the announcement here it looks like the repository that this library uses will be shut down in July 2023: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql-blog/microsoft-r-application-network-retirement/ba-p/3707161

I am surprised to learn that, as there is no info about this here. Will this library still be useful after that or not?

[siavash-babaei]

Reading this: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2023/01/mran-time-machine-retired.html

There are 2 points:

1. For R users, the “checkpoint” package will only serve CRAN snapshots up to January 31, 2023 and will cease to function entirely after June 30, 2023.
2. R scripts using a CRAN repository located at https://cran.microsoft.com/ will return an error after July 1, 2023.

Eh, they are suggesting miniCRAN instead: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/machine-learning/package-management/create-a-local-package-repository-using-minicran?view=sql-server-ver16

[r-suzuki]

checkpoint package seems to work fine with Posit Package Manager, as written in the "Using the checkpoint package" section of this URL: https://posit.co/blog/migrating-from-mran-to-posit-package-manager/

Since this package is still available on CRAN, I think it would be better to change the default setting to Posit Package Manager if possible.