Bring psidR back to CRAN?

[zeileis]

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

[floswald]

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

[zeileis]

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.

[floswald]

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?

[zeileis]

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.

[zeileis]

Florian, just wanted to check whether you have had the chance to look at this (prompted by cran-task-views/Econometrics#28). Let me know if I can help with anything.