Well crap. A project from over 5 years ago, when I wasn't doing things well, and I've not got package versions recorded, and was doing all of the analysis via a `knitr` script, with very few intermediates saved.
And now collabs have reviewer comments, and want to change some outputs.
The package is under a git repo, but figuring out how far back to go is a pain in the butt.
So glad using `renv` now at least gives me a record of what versions I had at the time of analysis. #RStats
@rmflight I created a package with a function for this situation (if you have the session info or at least some versions recorded): https://llrs.github.io/repo.data/reference/cran_date.html
I hope you manage to continue the project and successfully answer the reviwers (and colleagues).
@rmflight It works even without known versions:
cran_date(versions = data.frame(Package = c("rversions", "rtoot"), Version = NA))
[1] "2022-11-11"
Which would be when these two packages are first on CRAN. Edit2: fixed typo. The function works correctly.
I'm working on making it work with Bioconductor packages (and version) but I think that just a date would be close enough.
Dr. Robert M Flight
Lluís Revilla