Package 'foieGras' has been archived on CRAN for more than 60 days

[statmath-it]

Package foieGras is currently listed in CRAN Task View Tracking but the package has actually been archived for more than 60 days on CRAN. Often this indicates that the package is currently not sufficiently actively maintained and should be excluded from the task view.

Alternatively, you might also consider reaching out to the authors of the package and encourage (or even help) them to bring the package back to CRAN.

In any case, the situation should be resolved in the next four weeks. If the package does not seem to be brought back to CRAN, please exclude it from the task view.

[basille]

Package removed from the CTV.

[zeileis]

Mathieu, I noticed that the foieGras repository on GitHub redirects to the aniMotum repository which seems quite active. Have you tried to find out whether they renamed the package and plan to release the new package to CRAN any time soon?

BTW, I also posted this in the SpatioTemporal task view issues, see: https://github.com/cran-task-views/SpatioTemporal/issues/20.

PS, maybe the duplications between Tracking and SpatioTemporal can be reduced by appropriately cross-referencing the discussions in the other task view? Any thoughts, @edzer?

[basille]

Indeed, aniMotum has superseded foieGras. We had a very interesting conversation with @ianjonsen, author and maintainer of foieGras and now aniMotum. In short, foieGras will remain archived on CRAN, and aniMotum will not be submitted there, due to too restrictive CRAN policies — instead, Ian chose to publish aniMotum on R-Universe, where it is available for install.

(on a side note, let's maybe open a different issue to resolve duplications between Tracking and SpatioTemporal CTVs if that makes more sense)

[zeileis]

In that case I would recommend to include r github("ianjonsen/aniMotum") in the Tracking task view.

As for the overlap between Tracking and SpatioTemporal: I don't mind how you organize the process. I just wanted to encourage all of you to think about whether the current situation could be improved and then take the corresponding steps.

[basille]

That was the idea — unfortunately, aniMotum fails CRAN checks and it is our policy to only include non-CRAN/Bioconductor packages that nevertheless pass CRAN checks.

[zeileis]

Thanks for the thorough checks, that makes sense!