What does superseded mean? Package development lifecycle process and the meaning of superseded.

An important part of the process of package lifecycle and package development is not just adding new functions. It's is equally important to remove functions.

Hadley Wickham shares about the package lifecycle process and what 'supersede' means for functions.

See the full video about the purrr 1.0 release: https://youtu.be/EGAs7zuRutY

More about the package lifecycle stages: https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/articles/stages.html

Maintaining the house that tidyverse built: https://youtu.be/izFssYRsLZs

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And so we've decided, like, these functions aren't really that great, so we've superseded them. So if you're not familiar with what that means, that means they are not going away, they're not deprecated, they're not on a path to being removed, but we don't recommend them anymore. So in some sense, these functions are like the safest functions to use because we're going to just put them away and we're never going to touch them. But we just don't recommend using them anymore.

So in some sense, these functions are like the safest functions to use because we're going to just put them away and we're never going to touch them. But we just don't recommend using them anymore.

What does superseded mean? Package development lifecycle process and the meaning of superseded.

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