CLEANUP: Formally deprecate (hidden) argument 'local' of future()

Author: HenrikBengtsson

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Package: future
-Version: 1.68.0-9019
+Version: 1.68.0-9020
 Title: Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone
 Depends:
     R (>= 3.2.0)

NEWS.md

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 ## Deprecated and Defunct
 
  * Remove arguments `earlySignal` and `gc` from `future()`,
-   `futureAssign()`, and `futureCall()`.  Attempts to set them are now
-   ignored and will produce deprecation warnings.
+   `futureAssign()`, and `futureCall()`. Attempts to set them produce
+   deprecation warnings.
 
  * The `cluster` backend now defaults to `earlySignal = FALSE`. This
    was effectively already the case, because of an internal thinko

R/core_api-future.R

@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@ future <- function(expr, envir = parent.frame(), substitute = TRUE, lazy = FALSE
 
   args_names <- names(list(...))
 
-  ## Deprecation of arguments 'earlySignal' and 'gc'
-  for (name in c("earlySignal", "gc")) {
+  ## Deprecation of arguments 'earlySignal', 'gc', and 'local'
+  for (name in c("earlySignal", "gc", "local")) {
     if (!is.null(future[[name]])) {
       if (is.element(name, args_names)) {
         deprecateFutureArgument(name, future[[name]])

R/utils-options.R

@@ -469,4 +469,5 @@ update_package_options <- function(debug = FALSE) {
   ## future (> 1.68.0)
   update_package_option("future.future.earlySignal", mode = "character", debug = debug)
   update_package_option("future.future.gc", mode = "character", debug = debug)
+  update_package_option("future.future.local", mode = "character", debug = debug)
 }