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

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Lenth, Russell V 
>>>>>     on Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:43:07 +0000 writes:

    > 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 But please note that the term "retired" causes angst, and it may be good to change that to "superceded" or something else.

well,  some of us will  become "retired" somewhere in the
future rather than "superseded" .. ;-)