New skill: Upgrading R dependency

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
r
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked roxygen2 pull request #1750 and the issue's example bullets for R 4.0.0 and other releases. Update the relevant description with advice and add a news bullet plus concise release-specific TODO lists, including when backports such as isFALSE can be dropped.

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Description

Would be a little advice on bumping description and adding a news bullet, but would mostly consist of a brief list of todo bullets for each release, e.g. for 4.0.0:

  • Switch to base pipe
  • Replace purrr ~ and inline function() with \()
  • Drop stringsAsFactors = FALSE
  • Use raw strings for strings with many \\ escapes

(e.g. https://github.com/r-lib/roxygen2/pull/1750/changes)

Bullets for other versions could include when to drop various backports (e.g. isFALSE)

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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