soilDB minimum R version #424
Description
R 4.1 was released nearly 5 years ago on May 18, 2021. Notably R 4.1 will allow us to use the forward pipe (|>) and the lambda function syntax (\(x) ...) in code and examples.
- soilDB minimum R version will be bumped to 4.1 in the next minor release.
Along with this,
- Long deprecated features from R<4 will be removed (
stringsAsFactorsarguments) - Workaround for
tools::R_user_dir()on R<4 will be removed
I was maintaining support for R 3.6.3 as this was the version of r-base available with Ubuntu 20.04, but this LTS is no longer officially (publicly) supported. It was fairly common for folks to have this old version of R if they using the vanilla repositories to get their binaries. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will provide r-base 4.1.2.
At this time, anyone still using Ubuntu 20.04 should a) upgrade to a supported LTS, and/or b) get the latest version (currently 4.5.2) of R from the R-project apt repo (https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/fullREADME.html), where 20.04 is still supported
Users of Windows and MacOS have no barriers to installing the latest (or at least >=4.1) version.