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

[Jeff Newmiller]

I agree... but trouble is in the eyes of the beholder. If OP's approval process requires use of actively-maintained software, then use of code depending on one of these "retired"/"superceded" packages could indeed be a problem... for the OP. OP cannot expect to be able to impose those requirements on others though.

On September 21, 2021 9:48:28 AM PDT, Hadley Wickham <h.wickham using gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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