# Retire the documentation for R, MATLAB, Julia, and F# **URL:** \ **Category:** Plotly R, MATLAB, Julia, Net\ **Created:** [September 10, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/retire-the-documentation-for-r-matlab-julia-and-f/94147 "2025-09-10T18:19:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adamschroeder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/adamschroeder/32/17280_2.png) [@adamschroeder](https://community.plotly.com/u/adamschroeder)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/retire-the-documentation-for-r-matlab-julia-and-f/94147/1 "2025-09-10T18:19:30Z")
Plotly’s visualization libraries are downloaded more than 22 million times a month, for over 764 million all-time downloads. Every day, charts created with [plotly.js](https://plotly.com/javascript/), [plotly.py](https://plotly.com/python/), and [Dash](https://dash.plotly.com/) help millions of people worldwide understand and interact with their data. However, the plotly.js charting library alone consists of 138,000 lines of JavaScript, with another 133,000 lines of tests and over 700 open issues. We are, in short, typical of a successful, mature open source project, and face the same fundamental challenge as our peers: lots of work and not enough hands to do it. The usual response to this is, “Get the community to contribute.” While we encourage that (and do our best to prioritize review of community contributions), our code base is quite complex, which means it can take quite a while to figure out where and how to make a change without breaking something else. We are therefore trying to focus on cleaning up what we have rather than adding new features, in the hope of making it easier for other people to fix and add what they care about most. As part of this, we have decided to take two steps. The first is to retire the documentation for [R](https://plotly.com/r/), [MATLAB](https://plotly.com/matlab/), [Julia](https://plotly.com/julia/), and [F#](https://plotly.com/fsharp/), which will give our team the time to focus on continuing to actively develop and maintain the JavaScript and Python documentation. We haven’t maintained these languages or their documentation for several years, and rather than keeping out-of-date material online to confuse both people and LLMs, we will take it down at the beginning of November 2025. All of the sources will remain in those languages’ repositories on GitHub for reference, and will always be under an open license so that community members can look at it and/or look after it. Concurrently, we would like to try an experiment. If you are doing graduate work in computer graphics and data visualization, are in your final year of an undergraduate program and looking for a course-length capstone project, or you are between jobs and want a chance to hone your JavaScript skills, we’d like to talk to you. In exchange for six to eight hours a week, for ten to twelve weeks, we can offer you challenging problems, mentoring, and the chance to help literally millions of people worldwide. If this sounds interesting, please reach out to community@plot.ly. ---
**Author:** ![zhuz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/zhuz/32/33045_2.png) [@zhuz](https://community.plotly.com/u/zhuz)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/retire-the-documentation-for-r-matlab-julia-and-f/94147/3 "2025-10-02T13:38:22Z")
Thanks for maintaining the documentations. The F# library was sponsored by the Plotly firm for a while and the library has been maintained on [Plotly.net](http://Plotly.net) to the latest version. There maybe a path to refer the documentation to [Plotly.net](http://Plotly.net) so that newcomers can find the latest docs. There has been a long-standing issue on GitHub about this discussion. > > > Hi there @nicolaskruchten , recent issues (https://github.com/plotly/Plotly.NET/…issues/353, https://github.com/plotly/Plotly.NET/issues/356) in Plotly.NET brought up a confusion regarding the official docs, which are severely out of date. To fix that, i'd like to ask for some guidance on the following things: > > \- how does the current docs build pipeline work for Plotly.NET F# and C# samples? Is the content of https://github.com/plotly/plotly.net-docs used for that? > \- Is there a way to build those docs locally? https://github.com/plotly/plotly.net-docs has no readme. > \- Can we move the docs over to the Plotly.NET repos, the same way it is handled for python, js, and R repositories? That would make it way easier for me to maintain. ---
**Author:** ![msummersgill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@msummersgill](https://community.plotly.com/u/msummersgill)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/retire-the-documentation-for-r-matlab-julia-and-f/94147/4 "2025-10-08T18:00:24Z")
I am extremely disappointed to see this update as a minor contributor and daily user of the plotly R package for over 8 years. How does this affect the the [R Figure Reference](https://plotly.com/r/reference/index/) documentation? Will this site continue to be updated as described since it is machine-generated? _“The pages linked in the sidebar together form the exhaustive reference for all of the attributes in the core figure data structure that the `plotly` library operates on. They are automatically-generated from the [machine-readable Plotly.js schema reference](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/plotly.js/master/dist/plot-schema.json).”_ Have there been any discussions with third parties to host and continue maintaining documentation for R? ---
**Author:** ![gvwilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@gvwilson](https://community.plotly.com/u/gvwilson)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/retire-the-documentation-for-r-matlab-julia-and-f/94147/5 "2025-10-08T19:43:22Z")
Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to maintain the documentation properly for several years, and would rather be honest about that than continuing to host something that has fallen out of date so much that it will confuse both human and AI coders. All of the content will be archived, and if volunteers want to take over maintenance and hosting, please reach out. Thanks - Greg Wilson (manager of the Libraries team at Plotly) ---
**Author:** ![msummersgill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@msummersgill](https://community.plotly.com/u/msummersgill)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/retire-the-documentation-for-r-matlab-julia-and-f/94147/6 "2025-10-09T01:24:23Z")
Thanks for the quick response Greg. I have opened [Issue #2456](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.R/issues/2456) on the R Plotly Github repo for community discussion among fellow R plotly lovers. ---
**Author:** ![msummersgill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@msummersgill](https://community.plotly.com/u/msummersgill)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/retire-the-documentation-for-r-matlab-julia-and-f/94147/7 "2025-10-10T12:56:31Z")
Follow-up question - shouldn’t this be in the “Plotly R, Matlab, Julia, Net” category instead of “Dash Python”? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/uploads/plot/original/3X/2/f/2fdf7e8bd8c26163151a53918b516dbb6f6e6251.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/uploads/plot/original/3X/2/0/2052148c731561976203f44eb8230b1ad859da51.png) ---
**Author:** ![adamschroeder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/adamschroeder/32/17280_2.png) [@adamschroeder](https://community.plotly.com/u/adamschroeder)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/retire-the-documentation-for-r-matlab-julia-and-f/94147/8 "2025-10-10T18:09:05Z")
Thank you for the suggestion. We share it first in the Plotly Dash category because it has a much bigger following (in case Plotly people are following that tag instead of the `R, Matlab, Jullia` tag). But I just switched it over since it’s been well over two weeks. Thank you again. ---
**Author:** ![Carson\_Sievert](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/carson_sievert/32/1019_2.png) [@Carson\_Sievert](https://community.plotly.com/u/Carson_Sievert)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/retire-the-documentation-for-r-matlab-julia-and-f/94147/9 "2025-10-24T14:53:53Z")
Hi [msummersgill](https://community.plotly.com/t/retire-the-documentation-for-r-matlab-julia-and-f/94147/4), long time maintainer of the R package here. Posit (my employer) will be funding a contractor to help me migrate the plotly docs to a new location. We’ll also be coordinating with Plotly so that [plotly.com/r](https://plotly.com/r/) will continue to be available until that work is done – only then will [plotly.com/r](https://plotly.com/r/) point you to a new location. Please follow [this thread](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.R/issues/2456#issuecomment-3439092234) for progress updates on that work ---
**Author:** ![makeplotly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@makeplotly](https://community.plotly.com/u/makeplotly)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/retire-the-documentation-for-r-matlab-julia-and-f/94147/10 "2026-02-06T21:14:19Z")
What … R? Why would you discontinue? Makes no sense. ---
**Author:** ![jd-foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@jd-foster](https://community.plotly.com/u/jd-foster)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 6:43am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/retire-the-documentation-for-r-matlab-julia-and-f/94147/11 "2026-03-31T06:43:29Z")
> [@adamschroeder](#): > > All of the sources will remain in those languages’ repositories on GitHub for reference, and will always be under an open license so that community members can look at it and/or look after it. Could you post the links to the current repositories where they will be kept? e.g. is this the Julia site documention?: [GitHub - plotly/plotlyjs.jl-docs: Documentation for the Plotly Julia graphing library. · GitHub](https://github.com/plotly/plotlyjs.jl-docs) ---
**Author:** ![adamschroeder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/adamschroeder/32/17280_2.png) [@adamschroeder](https://community.plotly.com/u/adamschroeder)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 11:10am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/retire-the-documentation-for-r-matlab-julia-and-f/94147/12 "2026-03-31T11:10:50Z")
for sure @jd-foster . - [Plotly R docs](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.r-docs) - [Plotly Julia docs](https://github.com/plotly/plotlyjs.jl-docs) - [Plotly F# docs](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.net-docs) - [Plotly MATLAB docs](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.matlab-docs)