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

[Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (SP)]

:) That's a fortune nomination on my part.

Best,
Wolfgang

>-----Original Message-----
>From: R-package-devel [mailto:r-package-devel-bounces using r-project.org] On Behalf Of
>Hadley Wickham
>Sent: Tuesday, 21 September, 2021 20:45
>To: Lenth, Russell V
>Cc: r-package-devel using r-project.org
>Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] [External] Re: What is a "retired"package?
>
>Yes, as Lionel said that is why we have changed our terminology to
>superseded — we wanted to imply that a retired package was still a
>useful member of society, if not working full-time anymore, but most
>people seem to think that retired means that we took the package out
>behind the shed and put it out of its misery.
>
>Haley
>
>On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 1:43 PM Lenth, Russell V
><russell-lenth using uiowa.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hadley,
>>
>> As I suspected, and a good point. But please note that the term "retired" causes
>angst, and it may be good to change that to "superceded" or something else.
>>
>> As a side note, I'll mention that I myself am retired, and I'll claim that that
>does not make me less dependable. But one difference in retirement is that I now
>care less about public embarrassment, such as not knowing that all along, I could
>have used base::apply instead of plyr::aaply.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hadley Wickham <h.wickham using gmail.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 11:48 AM
>> To: Lenth, Russell V <russell-lenth using uiowa.edu>
>> Cc: Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>; r-package-devel using r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] [External] Re: What is a "retired"package?
>>
>> > 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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