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Date: 2020-10-25T11:53:02Z
From: Berry Boessenkool
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Warning on r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
In-Reply-To: <71e780b9-139d-cdf0-14e0-7b9455a129a8@bebac.at>
> 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
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