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

[Hadley Wickham]

> But for the broader question, Jeff is saying that there really are 700 packages that are in potential trouble!

I think that's rather an overstatement of the problem — there's
nothing wrong with plyr; it's just no longer under active development.
If anything, plyr is one of the safest packages to depend upon because
you can know it will never change :)

Hadley

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