'Depends' too restricted ?

[sambaala]

Hello,

Could you please change the Depends field of DESCRIPTION. The current value is "Depends: R (>= 3.6.0)", but your package seems working even for older versions of R. Your package would reach more R users, those with older R versions. Here are the current Depends fields of your current dependencies:

	Package	Depends	Version
1	backports	R (>= 3.0.0)	1.1.9
2	Rcpp	NA	1.0.5
3	Rserve	R (>= 1.5.0)	1.8-7
4	R6	R (>= 3.0)	2.4.1
5	uuid	R (>= 2.9.0)	0.1-4
6	checkmate	R (>= 3.0.0)	2.0.0
7	mime	NA	0.9
8	jsonlite	methods	1.7.0

I suggest in a following pull request to put "Depends: R (>= 3.0.0)".

Best regards

[dselivanov]

Hi @sambaala. We use errorCondition for structured exceptions which was introduced in R 3.6.0. There is port of this function in backports package, see related discussion in #29. Also it doesn't seem a big deal to copy-paste it here, but I haven't explored all the consequences in details.

[sambaala]

Ok @dselivanov, I see. Thank you.