[Rd] Check R version dependency in R CMD Check

[Josiah Parry]

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 <netikja using 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
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