Hello everybody, I just wanted to relay the information that some R packages will need a rebuild after the next upgrade of R. (see the email forwarded below.)
(By the way, I apologise in advance that I am being crushed for time currently and will not be able to help much). Cheers, -- Charles ----- Forwarded message ----- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:28:48 -0500 (CDT) To: [email protected] Subject: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1709121326430.30468@luke-Latitude> For anyone using the development version of R: svn revision 73243 introduces some changes to the memory layout of R objects that require reinstalling packages using compiled code. Attempting to load incompatible packages should signal an error. These changes are to support a new extension framework for basic R objects (https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/ALTREP/ALTREP.html outlines the framework). Merging the remainder of the framework should not introduce more binary changes and is expected to occur in the next few months. Best, luke -- Luke Tierney Ralph E. Wareham Professor of Mathematical Sciences University of Iowa Phone: 319-335-3386 Department of Statistics and Fax: 319-335-3017 Actuarial Science 241 Schaeffer Hall email: [email protected] Iowa City, IA 52242 WWW: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinf ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
