Bug#982895: ITP: r-cran-pingr -- A CRAN R package, pingr, which is used to check if a remote computer is up. It can either call the system ping command, or check a specified TCP port.

[Eric Brown <eb@ericebrown.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Eric Brown <eb@ericebrown.com>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, eb@ericebrown.com

* Package name    : r-cran-pingr
  Version         : 2.0.1
  Upstream Author : Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor@gmail.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/r-lib/pingr#readme
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: R
  Description     : A CRAN R package, pingr, which is used to check if a remote computer is up. It can either call the system ping command, or check a specified TCP port.

This R package is an important dependency for other important 
R packages, such as shinytest and codemetaR and is suggested 
by major packages such as remotes and devtools.

The package will be maintained by the Debian R package
maintainers team.

I will seek a sponsor from the Debian R package maintainers
team.