NEWS

I removed most of the functionality from the package. I think only stale_package_check() and get_age() have gotten any real downstream usage aside from my own; the few functions I kept are those that I actually continue to use myself with any regularity, or which I think it’s worth having written down to save re-inventing the wheel for functions only needed rarely.

I tried looking around GitHub for existing users, but if this affects you, please don’t hesitate to file a FR and I can restore anything deleted too hastily.
stale_package_check() is also deprecated. Prefer using lintr::unused_import_linter() instead. {lintr} will have better maintenance, reliability, and correctness.
get_age() got some substantial improvements.
- Gives the right age in some cases, e.g. 7 1/366 years for someone born Dec. 22, 2024 as of Dec. 23, 2031 (#23). Accuracy is now confirmed for a full grid of >2 million possible birthday, age combinations.
- Implementation is improved for about 2x speed-up. This was in service of making the implementation friendlier for static translation to other execution engines (in particular {arrow}, #18). Thanks @TPDeramus for the request and @jonkeane for consulting on acero particulars.
- Input not required to be Date as long as as.Date() succeeds, for convenience in quick examples like get_age('2003-02-04', '2008-12-30').
- Supports recycling of one length-1 input and handles missing values in either argument.

Fix a minor issue where getNamespaceExports() returns objects in unspecified order (#13)

Overhaul of stale_package_check to use the abstract syntax tree (AST) instead of regular expressions to detect unused packages. This approach should be much more comprehensive & reliable for 99% of use cases. Please file an issue if you’d like support for any of the remaining cases.
Removed some functions that were convenient only to a younger/more inexperienced self:
- D - as.Date wrapper, masks stats::D, and is not the most readable
- table2 - table wrapper, mainly I was using it for what sort(table()) can accomplish
- %+% - string concatentation. just get used to paste/paste0 folks.
- rel_coord - for naming coordinates relatively (e.g. 20% of the way on the x-axis). was a bit simplistic & not too hard to just do manually (I rarely use it). Better would be something like ggrepel which is what this was really trying to do.
Structured the repo more like a “modern” R package – added tests (via testthat), CI (via GitHub Actions), and this NEWS.md file!