[Rd] Depricated to Defunct

[Ivan Krylov]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:04:39 -0500
"Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel" <r-devel using r-project.org> wrote:

> In the survival package the survConcordance function was replaced by
> concordance a while ago, the latter works for any ordered response
> (continuous, binary, survival, ...). I deprecated the old one a
> couple of years ago.

For a less painful switch from Deprecated to Defunct, it should help to
minimise its use in existing CRAN and Bioconductor packages.

On CRAN, it's still used by the following packages:

 - 'arsenal', one vignette, CRAN version from 2021, last change on
   GitHub in 2024
 - 'blockForest', R code, CRAN version from 2023
 - 'distcomp', R code, CRAN version from 2022
 - 'grpreg', \link to "survival-deprecated" in documentation
 - 'MTLR', R code, CRAN version from 2019, last change on GitHub in 2020

(A few remaining search results consist of commented out code and news
entries about having avoided the deprecation warning.)

On Bioconductor, it's two more packages, 'iNETgrate' and 'messina' (both
of which seem to be stale imports, not actual uses of the function):
https://code.bioconductor.org/search/search?q=survConcordance

The maintainers may need some help removing these last few uses of the
function.

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan