Key considerations for retiring/superseding an R package
James Azam, Hugo Gruson, Sebastian Funk · 2025
Most of our work at Epiverse TRACE involves either developing an R package from scratch or adopting and maintaining an existing R package. In the former case, decision-making during development is guided by internal policies documented in the Epiverse-TRACE blueprints. However, a less common scenario for us has been taking on the maintenance of an existing package — a situation we recently encountered with the bpmodels R package.