Package ‘lidR’ was removed from the CRAN - requires archived package 'rlas'

[jslingsby]

Package ‘lidR’ was removed from the CRAN repository.

Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive.

Archived on 2026-06-09 as requires archived package 'rlas'

A summary of the most recent check results can be obtained from the check results archive.

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[jslingsby]

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Package ‘rlas’ was removed from the CRAN repository - Archived on 2026-06-09 as ASAN issues were not corrected despite multiple notifications.

[Jean-Romain]

Are you serious?

[Jean-Romain]

Shit! I'm exhausted of CRAN policies. It is off CRAN for a week now. Not even a message. rlas has been re-uploaded there was no issue at all! Fuck!

[danielrode]

PSA (for anyone in need of a new lidR installation while the package is not available on CRAN): You can grab it from JR's r-lidar repo hosted on R-universe:

install.packages(c('rlas', 'lidR'), repos = c('https://r-lidar.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))