Re: [R] how to deal with deprecated functions

2019-12-06 Thread Néstor Toledo
Ok I understand. I wasn't intended to look as complaining, sorry. It was interesting to get the pointview of a developer (thanks JC Nash). To code a new package comprising useful but deprecated functions is a very good advice, thanks, I will try to hone my coding skills to do so (and to be more i

Re: [R] how to deal with deprecated functions

2019-12-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 04/12/2019 2:07 p.m., Nestor Toledo wrote: Hello everyone, even I'm not fluent in coding, R has become a fundamental part of my daily work as a researcher and I'm very much grateful for such a wonderful, open tool. However, I have faced in many opportunities the problems associated with update

Re: [R] how to deal with deprecated functions

2019-12-05 Thread J C Nash
I would second Rui's suggestion. However, as a package developer and maintainer, I think it is important to note that users need to be encouraged to use good tools. I work with optimization codes. My software was incorporated into the optim() function a LONG time ago. I have updated and expanded

Re: [R] how to deal with deprecated functions

2019-12-05 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, If you are talking about CRAN packages, like it seems you are, then there is no general purpose solution. What is deprecated depends on each package's team of developers/maintainer. Since R is open source and so must be all CRAN packages, a possible solution is to have your own packag

[R] how to deal with deprecated functions

2019-12-05 Thread Nestor Toledo
Hello everyone, even I'm not fluent in coding, R has become a fundamental part of my daily work as a researcher and I'm very much grateful for such a wonderful, open tool. However, I have faced in many opportunities the problems associated with updates/upgrades of packages. Frequently packages