<p><a href='https://ropensci.org/es/blog/2026/01/27/new-maintainer/'>Read it in: Español</a>.</p> <p>Maintaining an open source package is rewarding work, but it’s also a <a href="/blog/2023/02/07/what-does-it-mean-to-maintain-a-package/"><strong>lot</strong> of work</a>. Life and careers change, interests shift, and sometimes you simply don’t have the time or energy to keep working on your R package (and that’s okay!<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-r …