natmanager installation issue (not on CRAN)

[Liangyu Tao]

Hi Dr. Jefferis,

I am trying to install natmanager to a windows computer today and found that it is no longer hosted on CRAN.

When I try calling install.packages("natmanager"), it says: 

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/lt532/Documents/R/win-library/4.1’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘natmanager’ is not available for this version of R
A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere,
see the ideas at
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages

I double checked the CRAN website and it said:

Package ‘natmanager’ was removed from the CRAN repository.
Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive.
Archived on 2022-06-11 as check issues were not corrected in time.

I then tried installing from source but could not get it to work both through Rstudio and running R as an administrator. The folder shows up in the library path for my R version, but does not show up when I check for packages by calling: 

installed.packages()

Not sure if it matters, but I'm using R version 4.1.1 and the newest version of RStudio.

I would like some help to continue with the installation.

Best,

Liangyu Tao

[artx...@gmail.com]

Hi Liangyu,

just to confirm that i see the same error when calling

install.packages("natmanager")

maybe something went wrong when they exported a new version of package. Greg and his team would know this. 

For the record, if you need a package from natverse asap, you could try to install the package alone, for example

https://natverse.org/nat/

best,

arthur

[Gregory Jefferis]

Dear Liangyu,

Many thanks for the message. I had not realised that natmanager had been archived because the package maintainer is a former group member. It looks like the problem is a test failing due to GitHub limiting requests from the CRAN build machine. I’ll try to see if I can adopt the package and get it back on cran. In the meantime you can install from GitHub. 

 All the best,

Greg. 

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[Liangyu Tao]

Hi Dr. Jefferis and Arthur,

Thank you for the replies. I have installed the packages from Github.

Best,

Liangyu Tao

[Gregory Jefferis]

Thanks for letting us know. In the meantime, i am pleased to say that Sri Jagannathan has submitted an updated version of natmanager to CRAN. We hope to have it back online in the next week or so (after archiving package updates take a while to process). Best, Greg.  

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On 5 Jul 2022, at 18:32, Liangyu Tao <liangyu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Dr. Jefferis and Arthur,

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[Greg Jefferis]

Just to note that natmanager is back to normal on CRAN.