Re: [R-pkg-devel] handling documentation build tools

2024-05-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
As lyx is not listed in 'Writing R Extensions', the one (authorative) manual describing how to build packages for R, I would not assume it to be present on every CRAN machine building packages. Also note that several user recently had to ask here how to deal with less common fonts for style

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Compile issues on r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang with OpenMP

2024-05-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Michelle, On 21 May 2024 at 13:46, Nixon, Michelle Pistner wrote: | Hi all, | | I'm running into build issues for my package (fido: https://github.com/jsilve24/fido) on the r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang system on CRAN (full check log here:

Re: [R-sig-Debian] Default CXXFLAGS

2024-05-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 21 May 2024 at 15:59, Ivan Krylov wrote: | On Tue, 21 May 2024 14:48:48 +0200 | Kurt Hornik wrote: | | > I guess foer the CXXFLAGS we want dpkg-buildflags --get CXXFLAGS? Good catch, and expansion, by both of you. | It must be the case. It's both the documented option [1] and it |

Re: [R-sig-Debian] Default CXXFLAGS

2024-05-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 21 May 2024 at 13:01, Jeroen Ooms wrote: | Compiling packages with C++ code using the default r-base-dev | configuration on debian:sid shows a lot of: | |cc1plus: warning: '-Werror=' argument | '-Werror=implicit-function-declaration' is not valid for C++ | | Can this flag be removed

Bug#1071535: car: Please remove r-cran-maptools from (Build-)Depends

2024-05-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 20 May 2024 at 19:12, Andreas Tille wrote: | Source: car | Version: 3.1-2-2 | Severity: normal | | Hi, | | car mentions r-cran-maptools in (Build-)Depends which is not backed up | by the DESCRIPTION file. Since maptools is removed from CRAN I'd like Yes, we fail to build if 'added'

Bug#1071362: rpy2 segfaults in tests under Debian bulk rebuild

2024-05-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 18 May 2024 at 07:59, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | Hi Laurent, | | We a build issue in Debian found via bulk rebuilds. Which everything current | in 'unstable', rpy2 (version 3.5.16) segfaults in a test when embedding. | | Details are at https://bugs.debian.org/1071362 | | If you kee 1071

Bug#1071362: rpy2 segfaults in tests under Debian bulk rebuild

2024-05-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 18 May 2024 at 07:59, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | Hi Laurent, | | We a build issue in Debian found via bulk rebuilds. Which everything current | in 'unstable', rpy2 (version 3.5.16) segfaults in a test when embedding. | | Details are at https://bugs.debian.org/1071362 | | If you kee 1071

Bug#1071380: RM: r-cran-randomfields -- ROM; Package removed from CRAN

2024-05-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Appears to be a duplicate of 1071379, maybe check if your script meant to remove another one. Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org

Bug#1071362: rpy2: FTBFS: rpy2/tests/rinterface/test_embedded_r.py s.......Fatal Python error: Segmentation fault

2024-05-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 17 May 2024 at 23:05, Santiago Vila wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > Is there a chance this could be spurious? | | Unlikely because it also happens here: | | https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/rpy2.html Ok, I will get in touch with Laurent. D

Bug#1071362: rpy2: FTBFS: rpy2/tests/rinterface/test_embedded_r.py s.......Fatal Python error: Segmentation fault

2024-05-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 17 May 2024 at 23:05, Santiago Vila wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > Is there a chance this could be spurious? | | Unlikely because it also happens here: | | https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/rpy2.html Ok, I will get in touch with Laurent. D

Bug#1071362: rpy2: FTBFS: rpy2/tests/rinterface/test_embedded_r.py s.......Fatal Python error: Segmentation fault

2024-05-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Is there a chance this could be spurious? The R API is reasonably stable, including the part for embedding R (and I am upstream for a small project doing that from C++). rpy2 is also mature and stable. So could this be a one-off? Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel |

Bug#1071362: rpy2: FTBFS: rpy2/tests/rinterface/test_embedded_r.py s.......Fatal Python error: Segmentation fault

2024-05-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Is there a chance this could be spurious? The R API is reasonably stable, including the part for embedding R (and I am upstream for a small project doing that from C++). rpy2 is also mature and stable. So could this be a one-off? Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel |

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN packages dependency on bioconductor packages

2024-05-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 16 May 2024 at 05:34, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | I forget now, but presumably the thinking at the time was that Suggested | packages would always be available for building and checking vignettes. Yes. I argued for years (cf https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2017/03/22/ from seven (!!) years

Bug#1070840: r-cran-ff: autopkgtest regression with r-base 4.4.0

2024-05-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 May 2024 at 06:28, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 10 May 2024 at 10:54, Graham Inggs wrote: | | Source: r-cran-ff | | Version: 4.0.12+ds-1 | | Severity: serious | | X-Debbugs-Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel | | User: debian...@lists.debian.org | | Usertags: regression | | | | Hi Maintainer

Bug#1070840: r-cran-ff: autopkgtest regression with r-base 4.4.0

2024-05-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 May 2024 at 06:28, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 10 May 2024 at 10:54, Graham Inggs wrote: | | Source: r-cran-ff | | Version: 4.0.12+ds-1 | | Severity: serious | | X-Debbugs-Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel | | User: debian...@lists.debian.org | | Usertags: regression | | | | Hi Maintainer

Bug#1070842: r-bioc-mutationalpatterns: autopkgtest regression with r-base 4.4.0

2024-05-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 May 2024 at 11:01, Graham Inggs wrote: | Source: r-bioc-mutationalpatterns | Version: 3.12.0+dfsg-1 | Severity: serious | X-Debbugs-Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel | User: debian...@lists.debian.org | Usertags: regression | | Hi Maintainer | | r-bioc-mutationalpatterns' autopkgtest regresses when

Bug#1070843: r-bioc-s4vectors: autopkgtest regression with r-base 4.4.0

2024-05-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 May 2024 at 11:04, Graham Inggs wrote: | Source: r-bioc-s4vectors | Version: 0.40.2+dfsg-1 | Severity: serious | X-Debbugs-Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel | User: debian...@lists.debian.org | Usertags: regression | | Hi Maintainer | | r-bioc-s4vectors' autopkgtest regresses when tested with r

Bug#1070842: r-bioc-mutationalpatterns: autopkgtest regression with r-base 4.4.0

2024-05-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 May 2024 at 11:01, Graham Inggs wrote: | Source: r-bioc-mutationalpatterns | Version: 3.12.0+dfsg-1 | Severity: serious | X-Debbugs-Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel | User: debian...@lists.debian.org | Usertags: regression | | Hi Maintainer | | r-bioc-mutationalpatterns' autopkgtest regresses when

Bug#1070843: r-bioc-s4vectors: autopkgtest regression with r-base 4.4.0

2024-05-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 May 2024 at 11:04, Graham Inggs wrote: | Source: r-bioc-s4vectors | Version: 0.40.2+dfsg-1 | Severity: serious | X-Debbugs-Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel | User: debian...@lists.debian.org | Usertags: regression | | Hi Maintainer | | r-bioc-s4vectors' autopkgtest regresses when tested with r

Bug#1070841: r-bioc-iranges: autopkgtest regression with r-base 4.4.0

2024-05-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 May 2024 at 10:58, Graham Inggs wrote: | Source: r-bioc-iranges | Version: 2.36.0-1 | Severity: serious | X-Debbugs-Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel | User: debian...@lists.debian.org | Usertags: regression | | Hi Maintainer | | r-bioc-iranges' autopkgtest regresses when tested with r-base 4.4.0

Bug#1070841: r-bioc-iranges: autopkgtest regression with r-base 4.4.0

2024-05-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 May 2024 at 10:58, Graham Inggs wrote: | Source: r-bioc-iranges | Version: 2.36.0-1 | Severity: serious | X-Debbugs-Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel | User: debian...@lists.debian.org | Usertags: regression | | Hi Maintainer | | r-bioc-iranges' autopkgtest regresses when tested with r-base 4.4.0

Bug#1070840: r-cran-ff: autopkgtest regression with r-base 4.4.0

2024-05-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 May 2024 at 10:54, Graham Inggs wrote: | Source: r-cran-ff | Version: 4.0.12+ds-1 | Severity: serious | X-Debbugs-Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel | User: debian...@lists.debian.org | Usertags: regression | | Hi Maintainer | | r-cran-ff's autopkgtest regresses when tested with r-base 4.4.0 [1

Bug#1070840: r-cran-ff: autopkgtest regression with r-base 4.4.0

2024-05-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 May 2024 at 10:54, Graham Inggs wrote: | Source: r-cran-ff | Version: 4.0.12+ds-1 | Severity: serious | X-Debbugs-Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel | User: debian...@lists.debian.org | Usertags: regression | | Hi Maintainer | | r-cran-ff's autopkgtest regresses when tested with r-base 4.4.0 [1

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Overcoming CRAN's 5mb vendoring requirement

2024-05-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Software Heritage (see [1] for their website and [2] for a brief intro I gave at useR! 2019 in Toulouse) covers GitHub and CRAN [3]. It is by now 'in collaboration with UNESCO', supported by a long and posh list of sponsors [4] and about as good as it gets to 'ensure longevity of artifacts'. It

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Fast Matrix Serialization in R?

2024-05-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 9 May 2024 at 03:20, Sameh Abdulah wrote: | I need to serialize and save a 20K x 20K matrix as a binary file. Hm that is an incomplete specification: _what_ do you want to do with it? Read it back in R? Share it with other languages (like Python) ? I.e. what really is your use case? Also,

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Overcoming CRAN's 5mb vendoring requirement

2024-05-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 8 May 2024 at 11:02, Josiah Parry wrote: | CRAN has rejected this package with: | | * Size of tarball: 18099770 bytes* | | *Please reudce to less than 5 MB for a CRAN package.* Are you by chance confusing a NOTE (issued, but can be overruled) with a WARNING (more severe, likely a

Bug#1070240: r-cran-tmb: Please rebuild under updated Matrix package

2024-05-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: r-cran-tmb Version: 1.9.11-1 Severity: important CRAN package Matrix had a new release 1.7.0 bringing in a new SuiteSparse API which requires a rebuild if (and only if) the Matrix headers are used. Your package is one of those that do, and therefore needs a rebuild. This was

Bug#1070239: r-cran-openmx: Please rebuild under updated Matrix package

2024-05-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: r-cran-openmx Version: 2.21.11+dfsg-3 Severity: important CRAN package Matrix had a new release 1.7.0 bringing in a new SuiteSparse API which requires a rebuild if (and only if) the Matrix headers are used. Your package is one of those that do, and therefore needs a rebuild. This was

Bug#1070238: r-cran-irlba: Please rebuild under updated Matrix package

2024-05-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: r-cran-irlba Version: 2.3.5.1-3 Severity: important CRAN package Matrix had a new release 1.7.0 bringing in a new SuiteSparse API which requires a rebuild if (and only if) the Matrix headers are used. Your package is one of those that do, and therefore needs a rebuild. This was

Re: [Rd] Patches for CVE-2024-27322

2024-04-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 30 April 2024 at 11:59, peter dalgaard wrote: | svn diff -c 86235 ~/r-devel/R Which is also available as https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/commit/f7c46500f455eb4edfc3656c3fa20af61b16abb7 Dirk | (or 86238 for the port to the release branch) should be easily backported. | | (CC Luke in

Bug#1070009: r-cran-data.table: Update to current upstream

2024-04-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
The file 'issue_563_fread.txt' appears to be an input to data.table::fread() for a test on encodings, glancing at the context. I can run 'R CMD check --as-cran data.table_1.15.4.tar.gz' just fine [1] here without any failing tests (and I have no locale or anything set). It's not my package but

Bug#1070009: r-cran-data.table: Update to current upstream

2024-04-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
The package is pristine at CRAN https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_data.table.html (apart from some new warnings several packages now get about interal R API headers, nothing to do with tests) Maybe you can sort this with upstream -- data.table is effectively holding up

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Problem with loading package "devtools" from CRAN.

2024-04-29 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 30 April 2024 at 01:21, Rolf Turner wrote: | On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:30:20 -0500 | Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | | | > These days, I strongly recommend r2u [1]. As you already use R via | > CRAN through apt, r2u adds one more repository after which _all_ R | > packages are ha

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Problem with loading package "devtools" from CRAN.

2024-04-29 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Rolf, This question might have been more appropriate for r-sig-debian than here. But as Simon noted, the lack of detail makes is difficult to say anything to aid. It likely was an issue local to your setup and use. These days, I strongly recommend r2u [1]. As you already use R via CRAN

Bug#1070009: r-cran-data.table: Update to current upstream

2024-04-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: r-cran-data.table Version: 1.14.10+dfsg-1 Severity: normal data.table had a release 1.15.0 in January -- the first new one in three years! -- and two follow-ups since bringing it 1.15.4 at CRAN. Please update the Debian package to the current upstream version. This should likely

Re: [ESS] Error installing on ubuntu

2024-04-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help
On 27 April 2024 at 10:53, 신선영(수학과) via ESS-help wrote: | Dear all, | | I get the following error message: | | make -C lisp all | make[1]: Entering directory '/home/mathi/ess-24.01.1/lisp' | test -f ../etc/.IS.RELEASE || wget -qO -

Bug#1069842: rjava: FTBFS: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldeflate: No such file or directory

2024-04-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
reassign 1069842 r-base thanks On 25 April 2024 at 18:27, Santiago Vila wrote: | Package: src:rjava | Version: 1.0-11-1 | Severity: serious | Tags: ftbfs | | Dear maintainer: | | During a rebuild of all packages in unstable, your package failed to build: Thanks for this. It is caused by the

Bug#1069842: rjava: FTBFS: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldeflate: No such file or directory

2024-04-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
reassign 1069842 r-base thanks On 25 April 2024 at 18:27, Santiago Vila wrote: | Package: src:rjava | Version: 1.0-11-1 | Severity: serious | Tags: ftbfs | | Dear maintainer: | | During a rebuild of all packages in unstable, your package failed to build: Thanks for this. It is caused by the

Re: [Rd] Question regarding .make_numeric_version with non-character input

2024-04-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Kurt, On 25 April 2024 at 08:07, Kurt Hornik wrote: | > Hervé Pagès writes: | | > Hi Kurt, | > Is it intended that numeric_version() returns an error by default on | > non-character input in R 4.4.0? | | Dear Herve, yes, that's the intention. | | > It seems that I can turn this into

Re: R 4.4.0 coming April 24

2024-04-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 21 April 2024 at 15:25, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: | On 4/21/24 3:04 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > R upstream no longer releases or tests for 32 bits (and has not since the R | > 4.3.0 release a year ago) so 'expect trouble there'. I think you all in the | > release team

Re: R 4.4.0 coming April 24

2024-04-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Graham, Hi Release Team, On 21 April 2024 at 13:37, Graham Inggs wrote: | On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 13:38, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > Right now it now only shows 'all reports (re-)running'. | | That was because of the new upload, but I see the results there now. | | The packa

Re: R 4.4.0 coming April 24

2024-04-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Paul, On 18 April 2024 at 11:50, Paul Gevers wrote: | Hi Dirk, | | On 18-04-2024 4:41 a.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > I uploaded a first | > beta release r-base_4.3.3.20240409-1 to 'experimental' a week ago, I just | > followed up with a rc release r-base_4.3.3.20240416-1. |

R 4.4.0 coming April 24

2024-04-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
R 4.4.0 will be released on April 24 (following the long established pattern of annual 'a.b.0' releases). As is common, nightlies (as alpha, betas, rc) have been made available for four weeks leading up to it. I uploaded a first beta release r-base_4.3.3.20240409-1 to 'experimental' a week ago,

R 4.4.0 coming April 24

2024-04-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
R 4.4.0 will be released on April 24 (following the long established pattern of annual 'a.b.0' releases). As is common, nightlies (as alpha, betas, rc) have been made available for four weeks leading up to it. I uploaded a first beta release r-base_4.3.3.20240409-1 to 'experimental' a week ago,

Re: [Rd] read.csv

2024-04-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
As an aside, the odd format does not seem to bother data.table::fread() which also happens to be my personally preferred workhorse for these tasks: > fname <- "/tmp/r/filename.csv" > read.csv(fname) Gene SNP prot log10p 1 YWHAE 13:62129097_C_T 1433 7.35 2 YWHAE 4:72617557_T_TA

Re: [Rd] read.csv

2024-04-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 16 April 2024 at 10:46, jing hua zhao wrote: | Dear R-developers, | | I came to a somewhat unexpected behaviour of read.csv() which is trivial but worthwhile to note -- my data involves a protein named "1433E" but to save space I drop the quote so it becomes, | | Gene,SNP,prot,log10p |

Bug#970021: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics)

2024-04-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 9 April 2024 at 18:45, Jose Manuel Abuin Mosquera wrote: | If possible, I would like to contribute. At work we use the Go and | Python implementations, also, in the short term, we will start using the | Rust one. Similar for us, and we have seen plenty of build headaches across pypi or

Bug#970021: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics)

2024-04-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 9 April 2024 at 18:45, Jose Manuel Abuin Mosquera wrote: | If possible, I would like to contribute. At work we use the Go and | Python implementations, also, in the short term, we will start using the | Rust one. Similar for us, and we have seen plenty of build headaches across pypi or

Re: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics)

2024-04-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 9 April 2024 at 18:45, Jose Manuel Abuin Mosquera wrote: | If possible, I would like to contribute. At work we use the Go and | Python implementations, also, in the short term, we will start using the | Rust one. Similar for us, and we have seen plenty of build headaches across pypi or

Bug#1068117: dieharder: dab_monobit2 crashes with ntuple > 17

2024-04-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 8 April 2024 at 18:21, Lucas Thode wrote: | Apologies for the confusion, I didn't realize the patch in question was a new | addition.  Just confirmed that it errors out instead of segfaulting or hanging. Thanks for confirming! Dirk | On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 5:32 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel

Bug#1068117: dieharder: dab_monobit2 crashes with ntuple > 17

2024-04-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Lucas, As Milan suggested, please sure you are current. If in doubt, park you current checkout and start from git checkout https://github.com/eddelbuettel/dieharder.git where you should see today's commit from merging PR 24. edd@rob:~/git/dieharder(master)$ git ls | head *

Bug#1068117: dieharder: dab_monobit2 crashes with ntuple > 17

2024-04-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Lucas, On 30 March 2024 at 22:47, Lucas Thode wrote: | Package: dieharder | Version: 3.31.1.4-1.1 | Severity: normal | X-Debbugs-Cc: thode...@gmail.com | | Dear Maintainer, | | `dieharder -d 209 -n $nvalue` crashes for $nvalue>17: | | $ dieharder -d 209 |

Re: [Rd] RSS Feed of NEWS needs a hand

2024-04-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 2 April 2024 at 09:41, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | On 02/04/2024 8:50 a.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > On 2 April 2024 at 07:37, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > blosxom, simple as it is, takes (IIRC) filesystem ctime as the posting | > timestamp so would be best if you had a backup wit

Re: [Rd] RSS Feed of NEWS needs a hand

2024-04-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 2 April 2024 at 07:37, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 2 April 2024 at 08:21, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | | I have just added R-4-4-branch to the feeds. I think I've also fixed | | the \I issue, so today's news includes a long list of old changes. | | These feeds can fussy: looks like you

Re: [Rd] RSS Feed of NEWS needs a hand

2024-04-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 2 April 2024 at 08:21, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | I have just added R-4-4-branch to the feeds. I think I've also fixed | the \I issue, so today's news includes a long list of old changes. These feeds can fussy: looks like you triggered many updates. Feedly currently greets me with 569 new

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Order of repo access from options("repos")

2024-04-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 1 April 2024 at 17:44, Uwe Ligges wrote: | Untested: | | install.packages() calls available.packages() to find out which packages | are available - and passes a "filters" argument if supplied. | That can be a user defined filter. It should be possible to write a user | defined filter which

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Order of repo access from options("repos")

2024-03-31 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 31 March 2024 at 11:43, Martin Morgan wrote: | So all repositories are consulted and then the result filtered to contain just | the most recent version of each. Does it matter then what order the | repositories are visited? Right. I fall for that too often, as I did here. The order matters

Bug#970021: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics)

2024-03-31 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Julian, Arrow is a complicated and large package. We use it at work (where there is a fair amount of Python, also to Conda etc) and do have issues with more complex builds especially because it is 'data infrastructure' and can come in from different parts. I would recommend against packaging at

Bug#970021: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics)

2024-03-31 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Julian, Arrow is a complicated and large package. We use it at work (where there is a fair amount of Python, also to Conda etc) and do have issues with more complex builds especially because it is 'data infrastructure' and can come in from different parts. I would recommend against packaging at

Re: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics)

2024-03-31 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Julian, Arrow is a complicated and large package. We use it at work (where there is a fair amount of Python, also to Conda etc) and do have issues with more complex builds especially because it is 'data infrastructure' and can come in from different parts. I would recommend against packaging at

Re: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics)

2024-03-31 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Julian, Arrow is a complicated and large package. We use it at work (where there is a fair amount of Python, also to Conda etc) and do have issues with more complex builds especially because it is 'data infrastructure' and can come in from different parts. I would recommend against packaging at

Re: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics)

2024-03-31 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Julian, Arrow is a complicated and large package. We use it at work (where there is a fair amount of Python, also to Conda etc) and do have issues with more complex builds especially because it is 'data infrastructure' and can come in from different parts. I would recommend against packaging at

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Order of repo access from options("repos")

2024-03-31 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Greg, There are AFAICT two issues here: how R unrolls the named vector that is the 'repos' element in the list 'options', and how your computer resolves DNS for localhost vs 172.17.0.1. I would try something like options(repos = c(CRAN = "http://localhost:3001/proxy;,

Re: [Rd] Question regarding .make_numeric_version with non-character input

2024-03-29 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 29 March 2024 at 17:56, Andrea Gilardi via R-devel wrote: | Dear all, | | I have a question regarding the R-devel version of .make_numeric_version() function. As far as I can understand, the current code

Re: [R-sig-Debian] Problem Installing R 4.3.3 on Vanilla based Jammy Ubuntu

2024-03-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Marco, It usually helps to be aware of one's hardware platform ;-) There is an option for Docker command to tell it to switch to x86_64, my colleagues who are on M1 and alike use that to access the generally richer eco-system of binaries for the Intel world. If on the other hand you prefer to

Re: [R-pkg-devel] using portable simd instructions

2024-03-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
: https://github.com/google/highway docs: https://google.github.io/highway/en/master/ | | Op di 26 mrt 2024 om 15:41 schreef Dirk Eddelbuettel : | > | > | > On 26 March 2024 at 10:53, jesse koops wrote: | > | How can I make this portable and CRAN-acceptable? | > | > But wri

Re: [Rd] paths capability FALSE on devel?

2024-03-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 27 March 2024 at 11:03, Prof Brian Ripley via R-devel wrote: | On 27/03/2024 10:28, Alexandre Courtiol wrote: | > Hi all, | > | > I don't know if it is a local issue on my hands or not, but after | > installing R-devel the output of grDevices::dev.capabilities()$paths is | > FALSE, while it

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Check results on r-devel-windows claiming error but tests seem to pass?

2024-03-26 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 26 March 2024 at 09:37, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | Avi, | | That was a hickup and is now taken care of. When discussing this (off-line) | with Jeroen we (rightly) suggested that keeping an eye on Typo, as usual, "he (rightly) suggested". My bad. D. | |https://con

Re: [R-pkg-devel] using portable simd instructions

2024-03-26 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 26 March 2024 at 10:53, jesse koops wrote: | How can I make this portable and CRAN-acceptable? But writing (or borrowing ?) some hardware detection via either configure / autoconf or cmake. This is no different than other tasks decided at install-time. Start with 'Writing R Extensions', as

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Check results on r-devel-windows claiming error but tests seem to pass?

2024-03-26 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Avi, That was a hickup and is now taken care of. When discussing this (off-line) with Jeroen we (rightly) suggested that keeping an eye on https://contributor.r-project.org/svn-dashboard/ is one possibility to keep track while we have no status alert system from CRAN. I too was quite

Re: [R-pkg-devel] How to store large data to be used in an R package?

2024-03-26 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 25 March 2024 at 11:12, Jairo Hidalgo Migueles wrote: | I'm reaching out to seek some guidance regarding the storage of relatively | large data, ranging from 10-40 MB, intended for use within an R package. | Specifically, this data consists of regression and random forest models | crucial for

Re: CRAN Package Matrix update and a possible transition or not

2024-03-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 23 March 2024 at 07:25, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 22 March 2024 at 11:12, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | | | On 27 February 2024 at 19:01, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | | A couple of days ago, the (effective) Maintainer and rather active developer | | | of the Matrix package Mikael

Re: CRAN Package Matrix update and a possible transition or not

2024-03-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 23 March 2024 at 07:25, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 22 March 2024 at 11:12, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | | | On 27 February 2024 at 19:01, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | | A couple of days ago, the (effective) Maintainer and rather active developer | | | of the Matrix package Mikael

Re: CRAN Package Matrix update and a possible transition or not

2024-03-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 22 March 2024 at 11:12, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 27 February 2024 at 19:01, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | A couple of days ago, the (effective) Maintainer and rather active developer | | of the Matrix package Mikael Jagan (CC'ed) posted on the r-package-devel list | | (the primary

Re: CRAN Package Matrix update and a possible transition or not

2024-03-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 22 March 2024 at 11:12, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 27 February 2024 at 19:01, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | A couple of days ago, the (effective) Maintainer and rather active developer | | of the Matrix package Mikael Jagan (CC'ed) posted on the r-package-devel list | | (the primary

Re: CRAN Package Matrix update and a possible transition or not

2024-03-22 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 27 February 2024 at 19:01, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | A couple of days ago, the (effective) Maintainer and rather active developer | of the Matrix package Mikael Jagan (CC'ed) posted on the r-package-devel list | (the primary list for R package development) that the upcoming change

Re: CRAN Package Matrix update and a possible transition or not

2024-03-22 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 27 February 2024 at 19:01, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | A couple of days ago, the (effective) Maintainer and rather active developer | of the Matrix package Mikael Jagan (CC'ed) posted on the r-package-devel list | (the primary list for R package development) that the upcoming change

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Request for assistance: error in installing on Debian (undefined symbol: omp_get_num_procs) and note in checking the HTML versions (no command 'tidy' found, package 'V8' unavailable

2024-03-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Salut Annaig, On 21 March 2024 at 09:26, Annaig De-Walsche wrote: | Dear R-package-devel Community, | | I hope this email finds you well. I am reaching out to seek assistance regarding package development in R. | | Specifically, I am currently developing an R package for querying composite

Bug#1067218: gretl: please make the build reproducible

2024-03-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Chris, On 20 March 2024 at 11:05, Chris Lamb wrote: | Source: gretl | Version: 2023c-2.1 | Severity: wishlist | Tags: patch | User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org | Usertags: timestamps | X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org | | Hi, | | Whilst working on the

Re: [R-pkg-devel] new maintainer for CRAN package XML

2024-03-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dear Uwe, Did CRAN ever reach a decision here with a suitable volunteer (or group of volunteers) ? The state of XML came up again recently on mastodon, and it might be helpful to share an update if there is one. Thanks, as always, for all you and the rest of the team do for CRAN. Cheers,

[Rd] RSS Feed of NEWS needs a hand

2024-03-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Years ago Duncan set up a nightly job to feed RSS based off changes to NEWS, borrowing some setup parts from CRANberries as for example the RSS 'compiler'. That job is currently showing the new \I{...} curly protection in an unfavourable light. Copying from the RSS reader I had pointed at this

Bug#1066403: R packages failing to build with missing -ltirpc are actually an issue in r-base

2024-03-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
-Depends to fix build issue from side effects of t64 transition (Closes: #1065216) -- Dirk Eddelbuettel Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:54:45 -0600 I will take care of it in -3. Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org

Bug#1066403: R packages failing to build with missing -ltirpc are actually an issue in r-base

2024-03-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
-Depends to fix build issue from side effects of t64 transition (Closes: #1065216) -- Dirk Eddelbuettel Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:54:45 -0600 I will take care of it in -3. Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suggesting an archived package in the DESCRIPTION file

2024-03-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 5 March 2024 at 15:12, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | On 05/03/2024 2:26 p.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > The default behaviour is to build after every commit to the main branch. But | > there are options. On the repo I mentioned we use | > | > "branch": "*rele

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suggesting an archived package in the DESCRIPTION file

2024-03-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 5 March 2024 at 13:28, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | What I'm seeing is that the tags are ignored, and it is distributing the | HEAD of the main branch. I don't think most users should be using that | version: in my packages it won't have had full reverse dependency | checks, I only do that

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suggesting an archived package in the DESCRIPTION file

2024-03-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 5 March 2024 at 11:56, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | I have mixed feelings about r-universe. On the one hand, it is really | nicely put together, and it offers the service described above. On the | other, it's probably a bad idea to follow its advice and use | install.packages() with `repos`

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Suggesting an archived package in the DESCRIPTION file

2024-03-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 5 March 2024 at 06:25, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | You could make a compatible version of `survivalmodels` available on a | non-CRAN website, and refer to that website in the | Additional_repositories field of DESCRIPTION. Every r-universe sub-site fits that requirement. For this package

Bug#1065216: r-base: recent libc6-dev change causes the xdr feature to be dropped

2024-03-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 1 March 2024 at 23:36, Aurelien Jarno wrote: | Source: r-base | Version: 4.3.3-1 | Severity: serious | Tags: ftbfs | Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) | User: debian-gl...@lists.debian.org | Usertags: libtirpc-dev | | Dear maintainer, | |

Bug#1065216: r-base: recent libc6-dev change causes the xdr feature to be dropped

2024-03-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 1 March 2024 at 23:36, Aurelien Jarno wrote: | Source: r-base | Version: 4.3.3-1 | Severity: serious | Tags: ftbfs | Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) | User: debian-gl...@lists.debian.org | Usertags: libtirpc-dev | | Dear maintainer, | |

Re: [Rcpp-devel] segfault on exit CRAN+Intel only

2024-03-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Murray, On 4 March 2024 at 07:03, Murray Efford wrote: | Dirk | Thanks for a very helpful reply. I'll simplify my return values. | | I mentioned Intel with rhub2 in my earlier post here, but I'm sorry | that was somewhat buried. Debugging is somewhere between painful and | impossible when

Re: [Rcpp-devel] segfault on exit CRAN+Intel only

2024-03-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
And "beauty" (ahem) of discussion scattered over two mailing lists: I now see you have a testbed via rhub2 (good) even though it does not reproduce (hm...). So you could still try the suggested simplication. Cheers, Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org

Re: [Rcpp-devel] segfault on exit CRAN+Intel only

2024-03-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 3 March 2024 at 20:47, Murray Efford wrote: | A couple of days ago I posted on R-package-devel about a mysterious | segfault from R CMD checks of my package secrdesign (see | https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=secrdesign, and | https://github.com/MurrayEfford/secrdesign) The issue rises only

Re: [Rcpp-devel] RcppArmadillo with -fopenmp: Not using all available cores

2024-03-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
the following: | | > extSoftVersion()["BLAS"] Ah yes -- I keep forgetting about that one. Good reminder! | Thanks for your help! Always a pleasure. Glad you are all set. Dirk | On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 9:17 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | | On 24 February 2024 at 11:44, Ro

Re: [Rcpp-devel] Segfault in wrapping code in Rcpp

2024-03-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Nikhil, Don't post images. I read in a text-based reader. The mailing list software also scrubs html (I think). I would simplify. Start with the simplest Rcpp Modules setup. Then add. Check checking. Eventually on your way towards what you are doing now you may spot the error. Hope this

Bug#1063320: gretl: NMU diff for 64-bit time_t transition

2024-02-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 29 February 2024 at 00:20, Steve Langasek wrote: | Dear maintainer, | | Please find attached a final version of this patch for the time_t | transition. This patch is being uploaded to unstable. | | Note that this adds a versioned build-dependency on dpkg-dev, to guard | against accidental

Bug#1063320: gretl: NMU diff for 64-bit time_t transition

2024-02-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 29 February 2024 at 00:20, Steve Langasek wrote: | Dear maintainer, | | Please find attached a final version of this patch for the time_t | transition. This patch is being uploaded to unstable. | | Note that this adds a versioned build-dependency on dpkg-dev, to guard | against accidental

Bug#1062364: dieharder: NMU diff for 64-bit time_t transition

2024-02-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 28 February 2024 at 21:28, mwhud...@fastmail.fm wrote: | Dear maintainer, | | Please find attached a final version of this patch for the time_t | transition. This patch is being uploaded to unstable. | | Note that this adds a versioned build-dependency on dpkg-dev, to guard | against

Bug#1062364: dieharder: NMU diff for 64-bit time_t transition

2024-02-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 28 February 2024 at 21:28, mwhud...@fastmail.fm wrote: | Dear maintainer, | | Please find attached a final version of this patch for the time_t | transition. This patch is being uploaded to unstable. | | Note that this adds a versioned build-dependency on dpkg-dev, to guard | against

Bug#1064388: ess: New version 24.1.1

2024-02-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 28 February 2024 at 10:17, Sébastien Villemot wrote: | Salut Dirk, | | Le mercredi 21 février 2024 à 06:54 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : | > Source: ess | > Version: 24.01.0-1 | > Severity: minor | > | > Salut Seb -- and thanks for packaging the recent 24.1.0 which in

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Unable to access log operator in C

2024-02-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 28 February 2024 at 19:05, Avraham Adler wrote: | I am hoping the solution to this question is simple, but I have not | been able to find one. I am building a routine in C to be called from | R. I am including Rmath.h. However, when I have a call to "log", I get | the error "called object

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