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An R client for Selenium Remote WebDriver
https://docs.ropensci.org/RSelenium
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Impending CRAN archival #260

Closed jeffreyhanson closed 2 years ago

jeffreyhanson commented 2 years ago

Hi,

Thank you very much for all your work on developing and maintaining the Rselenium package! I maintain a package that depends on RSelenium and I recived an email from CRAN stating that Rselenium will be archived on 2022-09-03. I haved copied in the full email below for reference. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help resolve this?

Dear maintainers,

This concerns the CRAN packages

IRexamples LIHKGr RSelenium carbonate gesisdata nser parsel pewdata ropercenter sgat shadowr snotelr wdpar

maintained by one of you:

Frederick Solt : gesisdata pewdata ropercenter Jeffrey O Hanson : wdpar Jonathan Sidi : carbonate Ju Yeong Kim : RSelenium Justin Chun-ting Ho : LIHKGr Koen Hufkens : snotelr Matias Poullain : sgat Nandan Patil : nser Ricardo Landolt : shadowr Till Tietz : parsel Vinh Nguyen : IRexamples

We have asked for an update fixing the check problems shown at https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_RSelenium.html with no update from the maintainer thus far.

Thus, package RSelenium is now scheduled for archival on 2022-09-03, and archiving this will necessitate also archiving its CRAN strong reverse dependencies.

Please negotiate the necessary actions.

The CRAN Team

jeffreyhanson commented 2 years ago

Upon further inspection, it seems that some of the vignettes are failing to build under the ALTAS environment. If it would be helpful, I would be happy to submit a PR that programmatically disables evaluation of R code in vignettes when run as part of package checks (based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/46482580/3483791). I have used this method in vignettes that are computationally heavy, and would not normally pass CRAN package checks (e.g., https://github.com/prioritizr/prioritizr/blob/master/vignettes/calibrating_trade-offs_tutorial.Rmd).

jeffreyhanson commented 2 years ago

Just thought I'd tag @juyeongkim in this issue, in case that helps.

yonicd commented 2 years ago

cc @maelle

maelle commented 2 years ago

I emailed the maintainer, thank you!

FultonCountyStrategyOffice commented 2 years ago

@jeffreyhanson @maelle @maelle

Hi, I just thought myself and Fulton County Government should throw our hat in the ring. We use RSelenium as a "webscraper of last resort" to make sure different vendors and websites comply with the law regarding accessibility (open data). The dependency of various government agencies on RSelenium to provide open data is very important. I will try to personally reach out to @johndharrison and @juyeongkim to see if anything can be done.

~ From Mike L. Fulton County Government.

Please keep us updated if you hear anything back from the maintainer as well as I am willing help support this package.

juyeongkim commented 2 years ago

Hi all, I am aware of this issue and will address it and resubmit to CRAN soon.

I am looking for a new maintainer. Please comment on #261 if you are interested.

jeffreyhanson commented 2 years ago

I'm sorry @juyeongkim, I don't the bandwidth at the moment to take on maintainer duties for another package. I just saw that a new version had been released on CRAN - thank you very much! I really appreciate it.