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Wednesday, July 10 • 13:30 - 15:00
CRANhaven - Your backup repository for recently archived CRAN packages - Lluís Revilla, IrsiCaixa & Henrik Bengtsson, University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

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The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) provides the R community with more than 20,000 well-tested community-contributed R packages. One cornerstone of R is trust and correctness, which is why all CRAN packages undergo a rich set of checks - when first submitted but also daily.

R introduces new checks regularly, which means existing packages may start failing. If issues are severe enough, the CRAN Team asks the maintainer to submit a corrected version within, typically, two weeks. If not updated in time, the package is “archived” and is no longer available via traditional installation methods. As there is no public notice ahead of time, archiving of packages is a sudden, disruptive, and sometimes also blocking event for users and developers, resulting in wasted time and resources.

We have studied the archival-unarchival of CRAN packages. We will present the most common reasons for packages being archived, and how often and when they are unarchived. Based on these findings, we propose CRANhaven (https://www.cranhaven.org) - a package repository designed to mitigate the negative impact that suddenly archived packages have on the community.
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Henrik Bengtsson

Henrik Bengtsson, University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
UCSF, R Foundation, R Consortium, MSC in Computer Science, PhD in Mathematical Statistics, Applied, large-scale research in Bioinformatics and Genomics. R since 2000.

Wednesday July 10, 2024 13:30 - 15:00 CEST
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  Open and reproducible science, Poster Session
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