gather_() will likely become defunct in tidyr 1.2.0

[DavisVaughan]

We are planning on moving the lazyeval versions of the main tidyr verbs to the defunct stage in the next version of tidyr. They have been deprecated for awhile now, and the NSE versions can do everything the lazyeval versions were meant to help with. See tidyverse/tidyr#1281 for more information.

Could you please remove your usage of gather_() from plotly?

[cpsievert]

Was gather_() ever soft-deprecated? Seems extreme to remove it with no prior warning.

[DavisVaughan]

Oh good point. Most of the lazyeval functions here were soft-deprecated already, but gather_() is one that wasn't. Maybe we should start by soft-deprecating them all in the next release.

[DavisVaughan]

So, I'd say nothing for you to immediately do, but I do think it would be a good idea to move away from gather_() in the near ish future. Either to gather() or pivot_longer(). I will leave it up to you as to whether or not you want to keep this issue open as a stub for that

[cpsievert]

Oh definitely, I mainly bring it up out of concern for legacy user code

[msummersgill]

Perhaps another good reason to drop remaining "tidyverse" dependencies in favor of base R functionality and data.table (whose authors respect the value of long term stability -- haven't seen any issues with Group2NA since adding as a dependency 5 years ago) implementations? Would be happy to help on a re-factor if you'd like a PR.

[netique]

gather_ is deprecated in tidyr 1.2.0+ and now throws a warning whenever using plotly. I vote for moving from gather to pivot_longer as gather itself is superseded.