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Using diffiy to find the right version needed #14
Description
This is more a question/feature request than a issue.
I found an issue related to a function no longer being available in a R package.
The NEWS of the package didn't mention it was deprecated or removed.
I turned to diffify to find when did that happen, but I found no good way to find this.
I had to compare between multiple versions of a package until I found it.
Could be a way to search for this changes across versions?
I would imagine a table to search between versions that allowed to filter by function:
| function | action | version |
|---|---|---|
| a | new | 0.0.1 |
| b | new | 0.0.1 |
| a | removed | 0.0.2 |
With that table I could filter by function a and see it was removed in 0.0.2
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JosiahParry commentedon Feb 2, 2026
I'm in a similar boat right now. I want to see when the
nameparameter tocurl::form_file()was added.I would love an interface that lets me:
Thanks for this awesome tool!
remlapmot commentedon Feb 4, 2026
You've probably found your answer by now but I find the metaCRAN CRAN mirror on GitHub, https://github.com/cran, very helpful for this kind of thing - because it has a tag for every version on CRAN (whereas the actual source repo might not).
Find the relevant file then look at its commit history
https://github.com/cran/curl/commits/master/R/form.R
And then check those commits.
I believe version 5.0.1 is your likely answer.
cran/curl@44af7b9#diff-1c9c36a71cfd1f5031c0be794e978691fa6a471669745e7e826865678c0e8a90