taxizedb archived in CRAN

[jwokaty]

@sdgamboa taxizedb was archived in CRAN 31/8/2024: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/taxizedb/index.html. I know bugphyzz is currently in review and Bioconductor packages cannot depend on packages outside of Bioconductor and CRAN. Since the Bioconductor build system won't remove taxizedb, it will probably continue to pass on the linux and mac machines until a new version of R is installed; however, it will fail to install in the Github Action and on new machines.

I think maybe we should reach out to the taxizedb maintainer to see if it resubmitted to CRAN or try to remove the package if possible. I see that it is primarily used to construct rds along the inst path and is listed in Suggests. Not sure what the guidelines are.

[sdgamboa]

@jwokaty, thanks! I'll look into this and contact the authors.

Possible alternatives:

• taxonomizer: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/taxonomizr/index.html