floswald
Bring psidR back to CRAN?
Florian @floswald, as co-maintainer of the Econometrics CRAN task view I noticed that psidR was recently archived on CRAN for internet access policy violations. Do you plan on updating the package and bringing it back to CRAN? Can I help with anything?
Thanks in advance for your work on the package & best wishes, Achim
hey @zeileis whoops yes indeed, I completely forgot about that. I do plan to bring it back. do I need to do anything else apart from re-submitting it? thanks
Usually, the crucial point with internet access from the CRAN Policy is:
Packages which use Internet resources should fail gracefully with an informative message if the resource is not available or has changed (and not give a check warning nor error).
I guess (haven't looked at the details) that when you open URLs via openxlsx::read.xlsx(), then it might lead to an error if download.file() does not work. This again will probably lead to an error in R CMD check.
So before resubmitting you should make sure that the checks work successfully also if you are offline.
yes indeed - it did not help that my package tests were running on Uwe Ligge's server on the day that the internet stopped working (crowdstrike incident). I have turned off that particular test now, not related to package functionality anyway. So, I just resubmit as new version, that's it?
Great, thank you! And, yes, just re-submit and briefly explain in the comment field what lead to the archival and that you have addressed that issue now.
Florian, just wanted to check whether you have had the chance to look at this (prompted by https://github.com/cran-task-views/Econometrics/issues/28). Let me know if I can help with anything.