... "I am not fixing this hot mess"??? To the contrary, the README contains a 
clearly expressed intention to maintain plyr to keep in on CRAN.

RL

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 10:36 AM
To: r-package-devel@r-project.org; Lenth, Russell V <russell-le...@uiowa.edu>; 
r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: [External] Re: [R-pkg-devel] What is a "retired"package?

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 label on "I am not fixing 
this hot mess" is going to change that organization's stance, and expecting the 
author to play that game is unreasonable.

Welcome to the downside of package interdependencies. I highly recommend that 
you migrate away from plyr, either by absorbing the key functions you need from 
it or by relying on different packages.

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