Guidance for managing R package lifecycle according to tidyverse principles using the lifecycle package. Use when: (1) Setting up lifecycle infrastructure in a package, (2) Deprecating functions or arguments, (3) Renaming functions or arguments, (4) Superseding functions, (5) Marking functions as experimental, (6) Understanding lifecycle stages (stable, experimental, deprecated, superseded), or (7) Writing deprecation helpers for complex scenarios.
npx skills add https://github.com/posit-dev/skills --skill lifecycle
Manage function and argument lifecycle using tidyverse conventions and the lifecycle package.
Check if lifecycle is configured by looking for lifecycle-*.svg files in man/figures/.
If not configured, run:
usethis::use_lifecycle()
This:
Imports in DESCRIPTION@importFrom lifecycle deprecated to the package documentation fileman/figures/Insert badges in roxygen2 documentation:
#' @description
#' `r lifecycle::badge("experimental")`
#' `r lifecycle::badge("deprecated")`
#' `r lifecycle::badge("superseded")`
For arguments:
#' @param old_arg `r lifecycle::badge("deprecated")` Use `new_arg` instead.
Only badge functions/arguments whose stage differs from the package's overall stage.
@description:#' Do something
#'
#' @description
#' `r lifecycle::badge("deprecated")`
#'
#' `old_fun()` was deprecated in mypkg 1.0.0. Use [new_fun()] instead.
#' @keywords internal
deprecate_warn() as first line of function body:old_fun <- function(x) {
lifecycle::deprecate_warn("1.0.0", "old_fun()", "new_fun()")
new_fun(x)
}
#' @examples
#' old_fun(x)
#' # ->
#' new_fun(x)
| Function | When to Use |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| deprecate_soft() | First stage; warns only direct users and during tests |
| deprecate_warn() | Standard deprecation; warns once per 8 hours |
| deprecate_stop() | Final stage before removal; errors with helpful message |
Deprecation workflow for major releases:
deprecate_stop() - consider removing function entirelydeprecate_warn() with deprecate_stop()deprecate_soft() with deprecate_warn()Move implementation to new name, call from old name with deprecation:
#' @description
#' `r lifecycle::badge("deprecated")`
#'
#' `add_two()` was renamed to `number_add()` for API consistency.
#' @keywords internal
#' @export
add_two <- function(x, y) {
lifecycle::deprecate_warn("1.0.0", "add_two()", "number_add()")
number_add(x, y)
}
#' Add two numbers
#' @export
number_add <- function(x, y) {
x + y
}
Use deprecated() as default value with is_present() check:
#' @param path `r lifecycle::badge("deprecated")` Use `file` instead.
write_file <- function(x, file, path = deprecated()) {
if (lifecycle::is_present(path)) {
lifecycle::deprecate_warn("1.4.0", "write_file(path)", "write_file(file)")
file <- path
}
# ... rest of function
}
add_two <- function(x, y, na_rm = TRUE, na.rm = deprecated()) {
if (lifecycle::is_present(na.rm)) {
lifecycle::deprecate_warn("1.0.0", "add_two(na.rm)", "add_two(na_rm)")
na_rm <- na.rm
}
sum(x, y, na.rm = na_rm)
}
For functions with better alternatives that shouldn't be removed:
#' Gather columns into key-value pairs
#'
#' @description
#' `r lifecycle::badge("superseded")`
#'
#' Development on `gather()` is complete. For new code, use [pivot_longer()].
#'
#' `df %>% gather("key", "value", x, y, z)` is equivalent to
#' `df %>% pivot_longer(c(x, y, z), names_to = "key", values_to = "value")`.
No warning needed - just document the preferred alternative.
#' @description
#' `r lifecycle::badge("experimental")`
cool_function <- function() {
lifecycle::signal_stage("experimental", "cool_function()")
# ...
}
Test that deprecated functions work and warn appropriately:
test_that("old_fun is deprecated", {
expect_snapshot({
x <- old_fun(1)
expect_equal(x, expected_value)
})
})
Suppress warnings in existing tests:
test_that("old_fun returns correct value", {
withr::local_options(lifecycle_verbosity = "quiet")
expect_equal(old_fun(1), expected_value)
})
For deprecations affecting many functions (e.g., removing a common argument), create an internal helper:
warn_for_verbose <- function(
verbose = TRUE,
env = rlang::caller_env(),
user_env = rlang::caller_env(2)
) {
if (!lifecycle::is_present(verbose) || isTRUE(verbose)) {
return(invisible())
}
lifecycle::deprecate_warn(
when = "2.0.0",
what = I("The `verbose` argument"),
details = c(
"Set `options(mypkg_quiet = TRUE)` to suppress messages.",
"The `verbose` argument will be removed in a future release."
),
user_env = user_env
)
invisible()
}
Then use in affected functions:
my_function <- function(..., verbose = deprecated()) {
warn_for_verbose(verbose)
# ...
}
For non-standard deprecations, use I() to wrap custom text:
lifecycle::deprecate_warn(
when = "1.0.0",
what = I('Setting option "pkg.opt" to "foo"'),
with = I('"pkg.new_opt"')
)
The what fragment must work with "was deprecated in..." appended.
See references/lifecycle-stages.md for detailed stage definitions and transitions.
Reviews and authors Cloudflare Workers code against production best practices. Load when writing new Workers, reviewing Worker code, configuring wrangler.jsonc, or checking for common Workers anti-patterns (streaming, floating promises, global state, secrets, bindings, observability). Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge.
Azure AI Text Translation SDK for real-time text translation, transliteration, language detection, and dictionary lookup. Use for translating text content in applications.
Use when editing worker/src/constants/default-model-prices.json, packages/shared/src/server/llm/types.ts, pricing tiers, tokenizer IDs, or matchPattern regexes for OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex, Azure, or Gemini model pricing.
Use when contributing to the Cloudflare Docs repository — writing or editing documentation pages, choosing content types or components, adding changelog entries, reviewing docs, or learning how to contribute.
网文写作工具集基础设施部署。为 Claude Code / OpenCode / Codex / ZCode / OpenClaw / Reasonix 提供内置适配;Web AI / 通用 Agent 可走 skills + AGENTS.md 文件模式。触发方式:/story-setup、$story-setup、「准备写书」「帮我搭一下环境」「配置写作项目」。
Author and review GitHub Actions workflow YAML safely so syntactically-valid YAML can't ship a workflow that GitHub Actions refuses to run. USE FOR: editing, adding, or reviewing any file under .github/workflows/, writing run-name/name/if/env/run values that contain ${{ }} expressions, diagnosing a run that fails with 'This run likely failed because of a workflow file issue' and no jobs starting, deciding when a workflow scalar must be quoted, validating workflows with actionlint. DO NOT USE FOR: authoring application YAML unrelated to GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, GitLab CI, or non-workflow YAML. SCOPE: this skill covers *syntactic/structural* correctness of workflow YAML (quoting, parsing, actionlint); for *semantic and functional* workflow design (what a workflow should do, agentic-workflow behavior), see .github/agents/agentic-workflows.agent.md — the two are complementary. INVOKES: actionlint (downloaded pinned binary) plus git/grep for inspection.
| Azure AI Text Translation SDK for real-time text translation, transliteration, language detection, and dictionary lookup. Use for translating text content in applications.
Build translation applications using Azure Translation SDKs for JavaScript (@azure-rest/ai-translation-text, @azure-rest/ai-translation-document). Use when implementing text translation, transliteration, language detection, or batch document translation.
Take posit-dev/lifecycle from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.