Happy New Year Martin and everybody! On 1 January 2021 at 12:32, Martin Maechler wrote: | I had wanted to send e-mail to all Matrix reverse dependent | packages affected, as one of the changes indeed was very much | on purpose and listed among the (very rare!!) user visible NEWS | of Matrix: | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | * Significant User-Visible Change | | Matrix(*, doDiag=TRUE) where doDiag=TRUE has always been the default is now | obeyed also in the sparse case, as all "diagonalMatrix" are also "sparseMatrix". | | Matrix(0, 3,3) returns a "ddiMatrix" instead of a "dsCMatrix" previously. | The latter is still returned from Matrix(0, 3,3, doDiag=FALSE), and | e.g., .symDiagonal(3,pi). | | Also a triangular matrix, e.g., "dtrMatrix" is detected now in cases with NAs. | | This is both a bug fix and an API change which breaks code that assumes | Matrix(.) to return a "CsparseMatrix" in cases where it now returns a | "diagonalMatrix" (which does extend "sparseMatrix"). | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Without explicitly checking) I think that is the change we then made, and such a change is totally legitimate. What my previous email tried to express was more a slight "surprise" at the release and CRAN process for this. "Known significant" (and ever-so-slightly breaking) changes are "usually" communicated ex-ante to dependent packages, and in the case of CRAN breakage (as happened here, with the lack of a heads-up) I am surprise 1.3.0 got released there. I noticed this with looking into the (planned, upcoming, non breaking) next Rcpp release and a higher-than-anticipated number of packages had some test issues. But I am sure we can sort all this out in the coming days. Cheers, Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
