Package ‘btergm’ was removed from the CRAN repository

[Whissi]

From https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/btergm/index.html:

Package ‘btergm’ was removed from the CRAN repository.

Formerly available versions can be obtained from the [archive](https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/btergm).

Archived on 2023-03-31 as requires archived package 'speedglm'.

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[Whissi]

It was removed because it depends on speedglm package which was removed on 2023-04-01 for policy violation.

According to https://github.com/cole-trapnell-lab/monocle3/issues/652#issuecomment-1494760286, maintainer of speedglm package is aware of the problem and package should be back soon.

[leifeld]

Thanks. Yes, I was notified by CRAN and given two weeks to remove the speedglm dependency. But that was one day after I went on vacation, and when I came back, btergm was no longer on CRAN. I'm still working through my email backlog after coming back, but will hopefully get to this problem soon.

[leifeld]

I have made speedglm optional and resubmitted to CRAN. It should be there in a few days, but in the meantime, check the new instructions on the landing page for installation details from GitHub. speedglm is now used by default if available. If not, the btergm function uses glm instead, which is slower and takes more memory. To get a faster version, you can also try the argument usefastglm = TRUE to use the fastglm package for estimation. That's probably the fastest one, though speedglm may be more memory-efficient because it can use sparse matrices from the Matrix package.