How do I install an archived CRAN package

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I am trying to use the allanvar package which is documented on this rdocumentation page and this rdrr.io cran page. When I attempt to load it I get the following

    > install.packages("allanvar")
Error: package 'allanvar' is not available

Am I doing something wrong, or has it been yanked?

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This package is archived. This could be due to some minuscule thing that would be resolved soon, see this.

In the meantime, I'd install this using the GitHub repo:

remotes::install_github("jhidalgocarrio/allanvar")
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To see if a package has been archived, you can go to its CRAN page. In this case, it is https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/allanvar , but it's the same url pattern for other packages. Just put the package name after the last forward slash.

You will see on this page that it has been archived since 2020. To get the last stable CRAN version (which passed all CRAN checks with R version 4.0.2), you can do:

devtools::install_version('allanvar', version = '1.1')
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