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 package of deprecated functions. This
package could be used while you don't recode your scripts, or even used
for ever, as long as those functions, maybe with a different name, do
not conflict with the new behavior of the rest of the packages they came
from. Is not that difficult to write a package, and in this case you
would even have more examples, if needed.
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
Às 19:07 de 04/12/19, Nestor Toledo escreveu:
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 developers modify command syntax or directly
deprecate entire functions. This becomes a nuisance, since I must to
recode my scripts partially or totally, or even search for alternative
functions in other packages. Is there any solution to this, other than
skip updates or keeping old versions installed in a different folder?
Could be acceptable ask developers to do not deprecate functions but
keep them as "legacy" ones or similar?
Thanks in advance and I apologize for my deficient English grammar
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