Dear all, R 2.14.0 for Debian stable and oldstable has hit CRAN already. I have rebuilt the packages that are on CRAN. Other packages my have to be reinstalled because of the new NAMESPACE requirement.
Kind regards, Johannes On Tuesday 01 November 2011 13:34:02 Michael Rutter wrote: > Ubuntu R users: > > The process of sending the newest builds of R 2.14.0 to the CRAN servers > has begun. I would expect to see updates coming to your machines over > the next 24 hours. A couple of items to be aware of/watch out for. > > From the latest "R News: > > All packages must have a namespace, and one is created on > installation if not supplied in the sources. This means that any > package without a namespace must be re-installed under this > version of R (but data-only packages without R code can still be > used). > > This means that some of the packages that you have installed may fail to > load. 'library(foo)' may result in this error: > > Error in library(foo) : > package 'foo' does not have a NAMESPACE and should be re-installed > > If you installed the package using R (R CMD INSTALL or > install.packages()), you will need to re-install the package. If the > package authors have update their packages, an update will work, but a > re-install will fix ones that have not been updated. If you installed a > package via apt or synaptic (r-cran-foo), please let me know so I can > update the build. I have been trying to fix all of them, but it has > been difficult to find them all. > > I have enabled the use of OpenMP. This has been known to break the > revolution-mkl package. If this effects you, one solution is to not > upgrade to 2.14 (or roll back by pinning the old version. Search for > 'pinning apt' or 'pinning synaptic' for more information). Another > solution would be to use another package such as OpenBLAS > (http://xianyi.github.com/OpenBLAS/). > > Due to other changes 'under the hood', some packages just break. For > example, the package 'sp' would not load until the maintainers updated > the code. If a package fails to load for reasons other than a NAMESPACE > error, check CRAN for updates. > > If you have questions or issues, please let me know. > Michael _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
