Re: [Rd] MKL with latest Rs

2019-08-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 26 July 2019 at 08:48, Robert B. Gramacy wrote: | That does the trick, thanks! In fact, I had those lines commented out in | my Rmkl startup script but I can't remember why, since they're part of | Intel's instructions. Strange that things still worked for somewhat older | Rs. (Perhaps that

Re: [Rd] gfortran 9 quantreg bug

2019-08-05 Thread Koenker, Roger W
With extensive help from Dirk Eddelbuettel I have installed docker on my mac mini from https://hub.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-desktop-mac which installs from a dmg in quite standard fashion. This has allowed me to simulate running R in a Debian environment with gfortran-9 and

[Rd] CRAN incoming queue closed from Aug 09 to Aug 18

2019-08-05 Thread Uwe Ligges
Dear package developers, the CRAN incoming queue will be closed from Aug 09, 2019 to Aug 18, 2019. Hence package submissions are only possible before and after that period. CRAN maintainance work and some work on a possibly forthcoming Windows toolchain will be pushed forward. Best, Uwe Lig

Re: [Rd] iconv: embedded nulls when converting to UTF-16

2019-08-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 03/08/2019 11:59 p.m., Braun, Michael wrote: R-devel community: I have encountered some unexpected behavior using iconv, which may be the source of errors I am getting when connecting to a UTF-16 -encoded SQL Server database. A simple example is below. When researching this problem, I fou

[Rd] iconv: embedded nulls when converting to UTF-16

2019-08-05 Thread Braun, Michael
R-devel community: I have encountered some unexpected behavior using iconv, which may be the source of errors I am getting when connecting to a UTF-16 -encoded SQL Server database. A simple example is below. When researching this problem, I found r-devel reports of the same problem in thread

Re: [Rd] MKL with latest Rs

2019-08-05 Thread Robert B. Gramacy
Hi Tomas, That does the trick, thanks! In fact, I had those lines commented out in my Rmkl startup script but I can't remember why, since they're part of Intel's instructions. Strange that things still worked for somewhat older Rs. (Perhaps that's why I canceled them.) Dirk, if you're listenin

Re: [Rd] Infrequent but steady NULL-pointer caused segfault in as.POSIXlt.POSIXct (R 3.4.4)

2019-08-05 Thread Tomas Kalibera
On 8/4/19 3:30 PM, Sun Yijiang wrote: A reply from stackoverflow suggests I might have hit this bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14023 I can confirm that this glibc bug affects my system (latest CentOS 7). However, as far as I know, R is not multithreaded in its core. Is it