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Plotly is retiring its R documentation

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Description

I am opening this issue as a potential avenue for some thoughtful, respectful community discussion about the current state of the plotly R package, it's relationship and support by the Plotly organization, and potential paths forward for community maintenance.

According to this community announcement, the Plotly organization is preparing to retire R documentation in November 2025.

It would be fantastic to see an entity like Posit pick up the torch and host the documentation (or even support more maintenance efforts to get the R plotly documentation back up to date) in a similar manner to how it supported the "tidyverse" - perhaps just wishful thinking on my part though.

In lieu of a knight-in-shining-armor swooping in, what might be the best path to transition documentation to a new hosting location?

Related thread on reddit.

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Start with the linked Plotly community announcement and this issue's discussion about retiring the R documentation. Identify the documentation currently affected and the constraints on moving it to a new host; done means the community agrees on a concrete transition path, rather than a single-file code change.

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Assessment

Tech stack
r
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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