Hugo GrusonOne of the dependencies of your #rstats 📦 is not like the others: R itself!
But did you know you can specify a minimum R version?
In this post by @[email protected] & @[email protected], we review how to choose which R version & how to test it.
Minimum R version dependency in R packages - R-hub blog
There have been much talk and many blog posts about R package dependencies. Yet, one special dependency is more rarely mentioned, even though all packages include it: the dependency on R itself. The same way you can specify a dependency on a package, and optionally on a specific version, you can add a dependency to a minimum R version in the DESCRIPTION file of your package. In this post we shall explain why and how.