Package 'searchConsoleR' has been archived on CRAN for more than 60 days

[kurthornik]

Package searchConsoleR is currently listed in CRAN Task View WebTechnologies but the package has actually been archived for more than 60 days on CRAN.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. See the section on CRAN package archivals in the maintenance guidelines for more details.

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.

[wibeasley]

Hi @kurthornik, thanks for these notifications. I had commented out this entry (three weeks ago in https://github.com/cran-task-views/WebTechnologies/commit/13fc82d852c6c9bf15d175f4d0a073a6fb1c0864) while I was waiting for a response from the author (when you flagged this package before in #529).

I was commenting out the packages that I thought would be removed permanently, but wasn't completely sure.

If a package is commented out and invisible to the user, is your parser still checking it?

[zeileis]

When the r pkg("...") is executed then the package is included in the package list of the task view. No matter whether the corresponding text is displayed or commented. Hence it is better to either include or exclude the package but not comment the text.

[wibeasley]

closed w/ #529 (also #530)