Checking a previous release to compare with current version in the repository?

[JonathanUrbach]

I want to send thanks to the r-hub development team for all their hard work in developing r-hub 2.0.0, particularly the integration with GitHub Actions. Bravo! I think the new system will be spectacularly useful going forward, and I expect it to be one of my favorite platform testing tools.

I was wondering if it was possible to do a check of a previous R package release to compare the results with the current repository, or alternatively check a previous package tarball? This would help determine if a problem detected on a particular platform only (clang-asan) had actually been fixed, or went away due to changes in the dependencies. I attempted to do such a check using the URL argument, and provided the source package URL of an earlier release, but check_rhub used the current repository (as indicated by the package version). I understand this request may be outside of the scope of the r-hub project.

Thanks so much,
Jonathan Urbach

[gaborcsardi]

You can create a branch for the previous version, and use the branch argument of rhub_check().

[JonathanUrbach]

Thank you. I will try that.

[JonathanUrbach]

And... it works. Thank you so much!