[R-pkg-devel] [External] Re: What is a "retired"package?

Noah Greifer no@h@gre||er @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Tue Sep 21 18:16:26 CEST 2021


apply() also recently got a 'simplify' argument, which means you request
its output be returned as a list, too (i.e., to replace alply).

Noah

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 12:10 PM Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>
wrote:

> As you previously quoted:
>
> > plyr is retired: this means only changes necessary to keep it on CRAN
> will be made.
>
> That excludes bugfixes related to any specific use cases it is not
> currently capable of handling. In other words, if it doesn't handle the
> data you pass along to it from your users, or there turns out to be a
> security problem (I agree, not likely, but remember these agencies don't
> shade things by "likely") then the plyr maintainers aren't promising to fix
> it. Take it "as-is". This is exactly what this "agency" you are being
> hassled by is concerned about... not the label applied to that status.
>
> On September 21, 2021 8:50:32 AM PDT, "Lenth, Russell V" <
> russell-lenth using uiowa.edu> wrote:
> >... "I am not fixing this hot mess"??? To the contrary, the README
> contains a clearly expressed intention to maintain plyr to keep in on CRAN.
> >
> >RL
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>
> >Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 10:36 AM
> >To: r-package-devel using r-project.org; Lenth, Russell V <
> russell-lenth using uiowa.edu>; r-package-devel using r-project.org
> >Subject: [External] Re: [R-pkg-devel] What is a "retired"package?
> >
> >There is nothing official about that term. However, the meaning as
> intended by the package authors seems pretty clear to me, and if some
> organization decides not to allow software that is not being maintained to
> be relied upon then that is their decision. I don't think slapping a
> different label on "I am not fixing this hot mess" is going to change that
> organization's stance, and expecting the author to play that game is
> unreasonable.
> >
> >Welcome to the downside of package interdependencies. I highly recommend
> that you migrate away from plyr, either by absorbing the key functions you
> need from it or by relying on different packages.
> >
>
> --
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