Plans for CRAN?

[mitch-tanney-coterie]

First and foremost, thanks for maintaining this package. We use it throughout several modeling pipelines that also leverage the tidymodels framework.

We noticed recently that vip() was removed from CRAN. Is the current status below temporary due to CRAN-imposed requirements, or are you no longer planning to maintain this package?

[bgreenwell]

Well, this is news to me as we had just updated the package a few weeks ago and it was accepted to CRAN. I will look into this shortly, but yes, temporary.

[mitch-tanney-coterie]

Sounds good, and thanks for the prompt reply.

[mitokic]

I'd like to add this package into my R packaged called finnts, looking forward to seeing this get back onto cran soon so I can ship my package update. Thanks team.

[bgreenwell]

Thanks @mitokic, resubmitting to CRAN as we speak, so hopefully fixed over the weekend!

[bgreenwell]

Back on CRAN! Will take a day or two for the Max/Windows binaries to appear. Apologies for the mishap! Will leave this open until all the binaries are back up.

[mitokic]

Thank you!

[mitch-tanney-coterie]

Thank you!

Agreed. Thanks for moving quickly on this, @bgreenwell.

[mitokic]

@bgreenwell why does the latest package require R 4.1 or greater? Could it technically work with R 3.6? Just curious if it's a limitation on a package dependency or not.

[bgreenwell]

@mitokic I suppose it’s not a “strong” requirement but I wanted to lose the magrittr dependency and R 4.1 introduced the native pipe operator. I suppose this dependency could be relaxed in the next version if needed?

[mitokic]

@bgreenwell no worries I think I can work around it since I'd like to add vip into the suggests portion of my finnts package. Thanks though!