There is nothing official about that term. However, the meaning as intended by
the package authors seems pretty clear to me, and if some organization decides
not to allow software that is not being maintained to be relied upon then that
is their decision. I don't think slapping a different
Hello,
We renamed "retired" to "superseded" some time ago to avoid any
confusion. Superseded functions and packages continue to be maintained
on CRAN for the foreseeable future and it is safe to depend on them.
See the "superseded" definition in https://tidyverse.org/lifecycle/.
plyr probably
I received a request that I remove the 'plyr' package from the Imports for my
package, because plyr is retired. Indeed, the README file for plyr states:
> plyr is retired: this means only changes necessary to keep it on CRAN
will be made.
> We recommend using dplyr (for data frames) or
