Are you interested to help maintain the installr R Package? Please leave a comment here!

[talgalili]

Hello,

I am the current maintainer of the installr R package, which provides functions for the installation and updating of software on Windows OS, with a particular focus on R. Due to a shift away from Windows OS, I am seeking someone enthusiastic and dedicated to take over maintenance of the package.

If you are an experienced R developer with a strong background in Windows OS, and you are passionate about helping fellow R users, this might be a great opportunity for you to make a significant contribution to the community.

If you are interested in maintaining the installr package, please express your interest in this GitHub issue. Kindly provide details about your experience with R, Windows OS, and any other relevant experience you may have. I will review all expressions of interest and follow up with those that match the required skills and experience.

Thank you for your interest in maintaining the installr package and for your continued support of the R community.

( also posted here: https://www.r-statistics.com/2023/04/seeking-a-new-maintainer-for-the-popular-r-package-installr/ )

[StatsGary]

Yeah happy to own it.

[talgalili]

Wonderful. Could you please take a look at open issues and see if you have any insights/questions?

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[talgalili]

Hey @StatsGary - I've sent you an invite to the repo. Could you please take a look?
Also, would you be available to go over the open issues and seeing what can be done there?

[BroVic]

Hi @talgalili , are you looking for co-maintainers or for someone to take over? I could go with the former, not the latter.

[talgalili]

Hey, Co maintainer would be great :)

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On Wed, 24 May 2023, 20:32 Victor Ordu, ***@***.***> wrote: Hi @talgalili <https://github.com/talgalili> , are you looking for co-maintainers or for someone to take over? I could go with the former, not the latter. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#183 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAHOJBVM6NJT2TL7DNGJAQTXHZA37ANCNFSM6AAAAAAXPITO4M> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[BroVic]

Okay, I'm currently on life's "hot seat", but I will try to find time to address issue #184 for starters. If that's alright with you, will do a PR when done.

[talgalili]

Sounds great!

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[StatsGary]

Sure. Found this in my junk, so apologies. Sent from Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

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[talgalili]

No worries, thanks.

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[burgerga]

To be fair, I have used and contributed to installr in the past. But I now completely moved to winget (+wingetui).
It's not as polished yet as linux package managers but it's getting closer, and it's really nice that I can now install/update everything from one location:

So, it would not be unreasonable IMO to sunset installr 🤷

[BroVic]

Can winget manage local R packages (i.e. post-installation) the way {installr} can?

[burgerga]

@BroVic No, but installr also doesn't handle that well I would say (see e.g. #172).

So typically I do

update.packages(ask = F, checkBuilt = T)

or I start completely clean and install everything I need via pak (I typically have all my dependencies in a DESCRIPTION file, in my first code chunk, or in renv).

[lichenlady94]

Hi, I tried to do install.packages("installr") and then library(installr) but when I was at the library command, I got the message that's in the attached picture. I was wondering if there's anything going on atm that's making it hard to do the update.