Part of the deal of having a package up on CRAN is: at any time one may be sent an automated email like the following. Dear maintainer, Please see the problems shown on URL. Please correct before TODAY+14DAYS to safely retain your package on CRAN. The CRAN Team If this […]
NPM (a popular Javascript package repository) just banned package advertisements. I feel the CRAN repository should do the same.
Derek Jones recently discussed a possible future for the R ecosystem in “StatsModels: the first nail in R’s coffin”. This got me thinking on the future of CRAN (which I consider vital to R, and vital in distributing our work) in the era of super-popular meta-packages. Meta-packages are convenient, but […]