Using diffiy to find the right version needed

[llrs]

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

[JosiahParry]

I'm in a similar boat right now. I want to see when the name parameter to curl::form_file() was added.

I would love an interface that lets me:

1. select package
2. select function
3. see diffs of that function across versions

Thanks for this awesome tool!

[remlapmot]

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