lifecycle

lifecycle provides a set of tools and conventions to manage the life cycle of your exported functions.

Installation

Install the development version of lifecycle from GitHub with:

remotes::install_github("r-lib/lifecycle")

Usage

Use lifecycle to document the status of your exported functions and arguments:

• Choose one of the 7 lifecycle stages a function or argument can be in. You can choose from 4 development stages (experimental, maturing, stable, and questioning) and 3 deprecation stages (soft-deprecated, deprecated, and defunct).

• If the function or argument is deprecated, make sure your users know about by calling deprecate_soft(), deprecate_warn(), or deprecate_stop(). These functions try to be informative without being too verbose, with increasing levels of verbosity as the deprecation stage advances.

• Include the relevant lifecycle badge in your documentation.

Consult the usage vignette to learn about the workflow: vignette("lifecycle", package = "lifecycle").