TODO.md

In hughjonesd/apicheck: Explore the Historical API of R Packages

TODO

• deal with S4 methods; and test for that.
• tests: maybe rather than pre-installed (OS X) versions, have pre-installed source files and then mock install.versions
• Use match.call in package_report to check when functions will keep working.
• BUG: can't unload dependencies of apicheck itself, causing problems when checking tidyverse packages
• BUG: in console, with quiet = TRUE, you don't get asked to select CRAN mirror
• Should compare_versions (optionally) report about unexported methods, e.g. crayon::start.crayon?
• Note that e.g. get_fun_in_ns('start.crayon', getNamespace('crayon')) will work;
• Possibly fun_names_in_ns should report the same.
• e.g. for effects package, you miss API changes if you ignore methods
• Check that partial defaults are sensible. Consider the following:

> ns <- loadNamespace("clipr", partial = TRUE)
> getNamespaceExports(ns)
character(0)
> ns2 <- loadNamespace("clipr", partial = FALSE)
> getNamespaceExports(ns)
character(0)
> getNamespaceExports(ns2)
[1] "clipr_available" "write_clip"      "clear_clip"      "read_clip_tbl"   "dr_clipr"
[6] "read_clip"
> ns3 <- loadNamespace("clipr", partial = FALSE)
> getNamespaceExports(ns3)
[1] "clipr_available" "write_clip"      "clear_clip"      "read_clip_tbl"   "dr_clipr"
[6] "read_clip"
> identical(ns, ns3)
[1] FALSE
> identical(ns2, ns3)
[1] TRUE

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