Use RNGversion("3.5.0") instead.
Best,
luke
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, Stadler, Michael wrote:
> Dear maintainers of the BioC build system
>
> I have a shy questions regarding R-devel versions on the build machines:
>
> Currently, these use different versions of R-devel:
> malbec2 | Linux ... | R Under development (unstable) (2019-01-21 r75999)
> tokay2 | Windows ... | R Under development (unstable) (2019-03-09 r76216)
> merida2 | OS X ... | R Under development (unstable) (2018-11-27 r75683)
> celaya2 | OS X ... | R Under development (unstable) (2019-01-22 r76000)
>
> A recent change in R-devel
> (mostly in r76160, see
> https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/e4acfd1f240a42b3fc1474a4d97017114e4eb053)
> has changed the behaviour of sample()
> (see also https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17494 and
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2018-September/076817.html).
>
> In order to maintain backward compatibility, we are using RNGkind(...,
> sample.kind = "Rounding")
> to temporarily fall back to the behaviour of R-3.5. However, this will cause
> an error on R-devel < r76160,
> where RNGkind() does not yet understand the "sample.kind" argument (currently
> malbec2, merida2 and celaya2).
>
> This will obviously resolve itself once R-devel gets updated on the build
> machines, latest upon release of BioC 3.9.
> I am just curious whether R-devel will be updated on the builders before
> that, so this issue does not mask other
> potential problems in our package (QuasR).
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
>
>
>
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