deprecation-utilities {statnet.common}

Utilities to help with deprecating functions.

Description

.Deprecate_once calls .Deprecated(), passing all its arguments through, but only the first time it's called.

.Deprecate_method calls .Deprecated(), but only if a method has been called by name, i.e., METHOD.CLASS. Like .Deprecate_once it only issues a warning the first time.

Usage

.Deprecate_once(...)

.Deprecate_method(generic, class)

Arguments

...

arguments passed to .Deprecated().

generic, class

strings giving the generic function name and class name of the function to be deprecated.

Examples

## Not run: 
options(warn=1) # Print warning immediately after the call.
f <- function(){
   .Deprecate_once("new_f")
}
f() # Deprecation warning
f() # No deprecation warning

## End(Not run)
## Not run: 
options(warn=1) # Print warning immediately after the call.
summary.packageDescription <- function(object, ...){
   .Deprecate_method("summary", "packageDescription")
   invisible(object)
}

summary(packageDescription("statnet.common")) # No warning.
summary.packageDescription(packageDescription("statnet.common")) # Warning.
summary.packageDescription(packageDescription("statnet.common")) # No warning.

## End(Not run)