{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/httr/issues/293","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/httr/issues/293/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/httr/issues/293/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/httr/issues/293/events","html_url":"https://github.com/hadley/httr/issues/293","id":116972549,"number":293,"title":"trimws forcing R base version 3.3.0 dependency","user":{"login":"ReportMort","id":5299737,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5299737?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ReportMort","html_url":"https://github.com/ReportMort","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ReportMort/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ReportMort/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ReportMort/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ReportMort/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ReportMort/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ReportMort/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ReportMort/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ReportMort/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ReportMort/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-11-15T04:43:20Z","updated_at":"2015-11-15T04:43:20Z","closed_at":null,"body":"The function `trimws` was introduced in a recent commit: https://github.com/hadley/httr/commit/7c68198d49ea6b2abb7255c692dddb09fbeaf7b1, specifically at: https://github.com/hadley/httr/blob/7c68198d49ea6b2abb7255c692dddb09fbeaf7b1/R/str.R#L4\r\n\r\nThe issue is that the DESCRIPTION file states that the package depends on R (>= 3.0.0), but `trimws` wasn't introduced until R package base version 3.3.0, so either `trimws` should be specified explicitly in [str.R](https://github.com/hadley/httr/blob/master/R/str.R) or the DESCRIPTION file should be updated. I think that explicitly pasting the `trimws` function code is the better option, in order to be more inclusive of older versions, \r\n\r\n"}}