Yes, but ffbase was archived a long time ago (2022-04-04) and CRAN
has apparently just caught up to checking. What's a little frustrating
(to me) is that the dependence of prediction on ffbase is *very* soft
("enhances") ...
On 2024-04-18 9:28 a.m., Thierry Onkelinx wrote:
The cascade is even longer. prediction got archived because ffbase was
no longer available. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ffbase/
<https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ffbase/>
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Op do 18 apr 2024 om 15:25 schreef Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com
<mailto:bbol...@gmail.com>>:
Thank you! (I know about package_dependencies() but ran into
precisely the same problem and didn't want to re-implement it ...)
On 2024-04-18 9:11 a.m., Josiah Parry wrote:
> Well, after trying to install the package, I believe the issue is
> because margins has been archived.
>
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/margins/index.html
<https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/margins/index.html>
> <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/margins/index.html
<https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/margins/index.html>>
>
> You can check recursive dependencies using
> `tools::package_dependencies("pkg", recursive = TRUE)` which
would help
> you in this case. I couldn't run it since the package is not
available
> on CRAN, however.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 9:05 AM Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com
<mailto:bbol...@gmail.com>
> <mailto:bbol...@gmail.com <mailto:bbol...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
> The 'dotwhisker' package was archived on CRAN: from
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dotwhisker/index.html
<https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dotwhisker/index.html>
>
<https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dotwhisker/index.html
<https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dotwhisker/index.html>>
>
> Package ‘dotwhisker’ was removed from the CRAN repository
> ...
>
> Archived on 2024-04-12 as requires archived package
'prediction'.
>
> However, I can't for the life of me see where this
dependence
> could
> come from. Neither the DESCRIPTION file of the last-archived
version on
> CRAN
>
<https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/dotwhisker/dotwhisker_0.8.1.tar.gz <https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/dotwhisker/dotwhisker_0.8.1.tar.gz> <https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/dotwhisker/dotwhisker_0.8.1.tar.gz <https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/dotwhisker/dotwhisker_0.8.1.tar.gz>>>,
> nor the version on github
<https://github.com/fsolt/dotwhisker
<https://github.com/fsolt/dotwhisker>
> <https://github.com/fsolt/dotwhisker
<https://github.com/fsolt/dotwhisker>>>, seem to
> show any signs of importing prediction ... ?? I suppose there's a
> possibility of a recursive dependence, but in that case why
wouldn't
> the
> direct dependence be reported?
>
> Depends: R (>= 3.2.0), ggplot2 (>= 2.2.1),
> Imports: grid, gtable, gridExtra, stats, parameters, performance,
> patchwork, margins, dplyr, stringr, ggstance,
rlang, purrr
> Suggests: ordinal, tibble, knitr, rmarkdown, broom
>
> What am I missing?
>
> (I'm concerned because I have packages that Suggest:
dotwhisker,
> and
> the absence of the package from repos is breaking GitHub Actions
> checks ...)
>
>
> (This is cross-posted from an issue on the dotwhisker GH
> repository:
> https://github.com/fsolt/dotwhisker/issues/115
<https://github.com/fsolt/dotwhisker/issues/115>
> <https://github.com/fsolt/dotwhisker/issues/115
<https://github.com/fsolt/dotwhisker/issues/115>>)
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