I’ve been guilty of this myself. I think a check would be good. In my case I was using the new sort_by() function (I think also 4.1) and a user was failing to install on R 4.0.
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 11:30 Jan Netík <neti...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a server with R 3.6.3 installed and I struggled a bit with > updating several R packages that utilizes some new syntax introduced in R > 4.1.0, such as the native pipe |> or function definition shorthand \(x) ... > > The thing is that these packages states "Depends: R (>= 3.6.0)" and pass R > CMD Check without any issues. My problem occurred at the installation time. > I can see that developers naturally include the new handy syntax but > oftentimes forget to raise R version dependency in their DESCRIPTIONs. > Should we employ some new checks? > > Best, > Jan > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
