:) That's a fortune nomination on my part. Best, Wolfgang
>-----Original Message----- >From: R-package-devel [mailto:r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf >Of >Hadley Wickham >Sent: Tuesday, 21 September, 2021 20:45 >To: Lenth, Russell V >Cc: r-package-devel@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superseded — we wanted to imply that a retired package was still a 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-le...@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angst, and it may be good to change that to "superceded" or something else.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.wick...@gmail.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 11:48 AM >> To: Lenth, Russell V <russell-le...@uiowa.edu> >> Cc: Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>; r-package-devel@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 >> >> -- >> http://hadley.nz ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
