[R-pkg-devel] Warning on r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
Seems to be correct. In my code a data.frame is assigned with a column "foo" and _without_ stringsAsFactors = FALSE. Later a function is called which requires "foo" as character. The default stringsAsFactors was changed to FALSE in R4.0.0. Hence, my question: How "old" is the old releaseon CRAN's test machines/ macos? oldrel on windows is OK.
An opinions of the list-members about a re-submission?
My 2 cents: in the vignette, explicitely include stringsAsFactors=FALSE. Yes, R 4 has that as the default, but I feel it will be years before >95% of users reading your vignette have R >4. Anyone with an older version would not be able to directly copy the code. As I said, just my thoughts. Hoping not to provoke the discussion "but we need to encourage users to have a current R" as I did offline recently... Regards, Berry