BUG - Archival

[spsanderson]

The modeltime package imports prophet (a package that is no longer maintained by meta) which in turn relies on extraDistr, an orphaned package. This causes issues that make packages importing modeltime fail CRAN incoming checks.

Issue from CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_modeltime.html

CRAN Package Check Results for Package modeltime

Last updated on 2026-01-16 15:50:01 CET.

Flavor	Version	Tinstall	Tcheck	Ttotal	Status	Flags
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang	1.3.3	29.51	312.42	341.93	OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc	1.3.3	22.93	209.72	232.65	OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang	1.3.3	53.00	478.74	531.74	WARN
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc	1.3.3	56.00	504.32	560.32	WARN
r-devel-windows-x86_64	1.3.3	35.00	307.00	342.00	OK
r-patched-linux-x86_64	1.3.3	31.55	280.14	311.69	OK
r-release-linux-x86_64	1.3.3	30.68	279.09	309.77	OK
r-release-macos-arm64	1.3.3	7.00	72.00	79.00	OK
r-release-macos-x86_64	1.3.3	21.00	209.00	230.00	OK
r-release-windows-x86_64	1.3.3	34.00	297.00	331.00	OK
r-oldrel-macos-arm64	1.3.3	7.00	70.00	77.00	OK
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64	1.3.3	21.00	225.00	246.00	OK
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64	1.3.3	46.00	404.00	450.00	OK

Additional issues

donttest

Check Details

Version: 1.3.3
Check: package dependencies
Result: WARN Imports includes 30 non-default packages. Importing from so many packages makes the package vulnerable to any of them becoming unavailable. Move as many as possible to Suggests and use conditionally.

Requires (indirectly) orphaned package: ‘extraDistr’

Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Version: 1.3.3
Check: package dependencies
Result: WARN Requires (indirectly) orphaned package: ‘extraDistr’ Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

CRAN Package Check Results for Package modeltime

Last updated on 2026-01-16 15:50:01 CET.
Flavor Version Tinstall Tcheck Ttotal Status Flags
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang 1.3.3 29.51 312.42 341.93 OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc 1.3.3 22.93 209.72 232.65 OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang 1.3.3 53.00 478.74 531.74 WARN
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc 1.3.3 56.00 504.32 560.32 WARN
r-devel-windows-x86_64 1.3.3 35.00 307.00 342.00 OK
r-patched-linux-x86_64 1.3.3 31.55 280.14 311.69 OK
r-release-linux-x86_64 1.3.3 30.68 279.09 309.77 OK
r-release-macos-arm64 1.3.3 7.00 72.00 79.00 OK
r-release-macos-x86_64 1.3.3 21.00 209.00 230.00 OK
r-release-windows-x86_64 1.3.3 34.00 297.00 331.00 OK
r-oldrel-macos-arm64 1.3.3 7.00 70.00 77.00 OK
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 1.3.3 21.00 225.00 246.00 OK
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 1.3.3 46.00 404.00 450.00 OK
Additional issues

donttest
Check Details

Version: 1.3.3
Check: package dependencies
Result: WARN
Imports includes 30 non-default packages.
Importing from so many packages makes the package vulnerable to any of
them becoming unavailable. Move as many as possible to Suggests and
use conditionally.

Requires (indirectly) orphaned package: ‘extraDistr’
Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Version: 1.3.3
Check: package dependencies
Result: WARN
Requires (indirectly) orphaned package: ‘extraDistr’
Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

[spsanderson]

library(tidyverse)
pkgs_tbl <- tibble(
  pkg = c(
    "modeltime"
  )
)

# What are the dependencies for each package?
pkgs_deps <- pkgs_tbl |>
  mutate(deps = map(pkg, ~ tools::package_dependencies(.x, recursive = TRUE))) |>
  unnest(deps)

pkgs_deps |>
  unnest(deps) |>
  filter(deps == "extraDistr")

# A tibble: 1 × 2
  pkg       deps      
  <chr>     <chr>     
1 modeltime extraDistr

# Find which installed packages depend on extraDistr
pack_info <- tools::package_dependencies("extraDistr", 
                                         db = available.packages(), 
                                         reverse = TRUE)

# Print the list of packages that import it
print(pack_info$extraDistr)
 [1] "ACSSpack"             "adaptDiag"            "AZIAD"                "BANAM"               
 [5] "baskexact"            "BayesCPclust"         "bayespm"              "BayesTools"          
 [9] "bellreg"              "brada"                "bstrl"                "cases"               
[13] "convdistr"            "ddtlcm"               "deepMOU"              "DistPlotter"         
[17] "dprop"                "EBcoBART"             "eseis"                "estimators"          
[21] "exams.forge"          "fitdistcp"            "FMAdist"              "footBayes"           
[25] "GenHMM1d"             "ghypernet"            "grabsampling"         "grouprar"            
[29] "ipsRdbs"              "iZID"                 "JANE"                 "jfa"                 
[33] "kairos"               "LDATS"                "miscFuncs"            "mixdir"              
[37] "MultiNMix"            "nev"                  "OneStep"              "pcvr"                
[41] "prophet"              "ProteoBayes"          "PTSR"                 "R2D2ordinal"         
[45] "SAME"                 "shannon"              "shrinkem"             "simIReff"            
[49] "SIMplyBee"            "sklarsomega"          "smidm"                "spTimer"             
[53] "sreg"                 "StatTeacherAssistant" "stpphawkes"           "Surrogate"           
[57] "survstan"             "TCIU"                 "telescope"            "trend"               
[61] "univariateML"         "vibass"               "wqspt"               
# Check specifically if prophet is the link
tools::package_dependencies("prophet", recursive = FALSE)
$prophet
 [1] "Rcpp"         "rlang"        "dplyr"        "dygraphs"     "extraDistr"   "ggplot2"     
 [7] "grid"         "lubridate"    "methods"      "RcppParallel" "rstan"        "rstantools"  
[13] "scales"       "StanHeaders"  "stats"        "tidyr"        "xts"          "BH"          
[19] "RcppEigen"