[R] odfWeave 0.7.17 stutters on Debian testing 64-bit amd64 systems.

2011-05-14 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Dear list, This is a copy of a mail sent to Max Kuhn, original author and maintainer of the odfWeave package, which seems not to have received it. It reports a problem that seems to be very implementation specific (reproductible on three Debian testing amd64 machine, does *not* happen on two i686

Re: [R] odfWeave 0.7.17 stutters on Debian testing 64-bit amd64 systems.

2011-05-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Note the difference in XML versions. odfWeave does not work correctly with XML 3.4-x: this has been reported to the maintainer (and can be seen on the CRAN package checks at http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_odfWeave.html). I suggest you try downgrading to an earlier version

Re: [R] odfWeave 0.7.17 stutters on Debian testing 64-bit amd64 systems.

2011-05-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 14 May 2011, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: Dear Brian, Thank you very much for this answer. However ... Le samedi 14 mai 2011 à 11:52 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit : Note the difference in XML versions. odfWeave does not work correctly with XML 3.4-x: this has been reported to the

Re: [R] odfWeave 0.7.17 stutters on Debian testing 64-bit amd64 systems.

2011-05-14 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Dear Brian, Thank you very much for this answer. However ... Le samedi 14 mai 2011 à 11:52 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit : Note the difference in XML versions. odfWeave does not work correctly with XML 3.4-x: this has been reported to the maintainer (and can be seen on the CRAN package

Re: [R] odfWeave 0.7.17 stutters on Debian testing 64-bit amd64 systems.

2011-05-14 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Dear Brian, You are right (as usual...) : downgrading XML to 3.2.0 (the next-to-most-recent version) enables me to compile my minimalistic example correctly. And yes, there is no other XML than XML. Silly me... Now, I have to understand why the i386 and Ubuntu machines were *not* upgraded to