[Rd] disappearing tempdir()

2018-04-24 Thread William Dunlap via R-devel
Recent versions of Windows will remove empty directories from areas that Windows considers places for temporary files. It does not seem to matter how old they are; empty directories are found and removred c. once a day. I haven't seen any documentation on this feature but I think you can turn if

Re: [Rd] data.table not available as win binary for R 3.5

2018-04-24 Thread Mark van der Loo
FWIW, I see that stringdist also doesn't pass R CMD check on r-release and r-devel on Windows while Linux or r-oldrel on Windows gives no problems[1]. A quick scan of the release notes on Windows specific changes doesn't give me a clue yet. I see the following possibly significant warning in the

[Rd] Compile issues when building survival package from source

2018-04-24 Thread Joris Meys
Hi, I wanted to send a small patch for survival documentation. So I forked, patched and tried to build locally using R CMD build, but this failed with errors about undefined references. Upon closer inspection, the undefined references relate to files that give a warning when compiled through insta

Re: [Rd] R 3.5.0 fails its regression test suite on Linux/x86_64

2018-04-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 24/04/2018 5:50 AM, Peter Simons wrote: Duncan Murdoch writes: >> ./configure --without-recommended-packages && make && make check > > So you're getting paid to do what you do, but you want the volunteers > in R Core to do some work for you for free. You are jumping to conclusions. N

Re: [Rd] data.table not available as win binary for R 3.5 yet?

2018-04-24 Thread Joris Meys
My apologies for sending this twice, serious brainfart from my side. Cheers Joris On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Joris Meys wrote: > Dear all, > > to my astonishment data.table cannot be installed on R 3.5 Windows. When > checking the package page, the Windows binary is available for download.

[Rd] data.table not available as win binary for R 3.5 yet?

2018-04-24 Thread Joris Meys
Dear all, to my astonishment data.table cannot be installed on R 3.5 Windows. When checking the package page, the Windows binary is available for download. When checking the server however, I can't seem to find data.table. Also install.packages() says the package is only available in source form

Re: [Rd] data.table not available as win binary for R 3.5

2018-04-24 Thread Jeroen Ooms
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 7:26 AM, Joris Meys wrote: > > Dear all, > > to my astonishment data.table cannot be installed on R 3.5 Windows. When > checking the package page, the Windows binary is available for download. The package check page for data.table shows that is currently failing CMD check

[Rd] data.table not available as win binary for R 3.5

2018-04-24 Thread Joris Meys
Dear all, to my astonishment data.table cannot be installed on R 3.5 Windows. When checking the package page, the Windows binary is available for download. When checking the server however, I can't seem to find data.table. Also install.packages() says the package is only available in source form a

Re: [Rd] R 3.5.0 fails its regression test suite on Linux/x86_64

2018-04-24 Thread Martin Maechler
> Peter Simons > on Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:50:22 +0200 writes: > Duncan Murdoch writes: >>> ./configure --without-recommended-packages && make && make check >> >> So you're getting paid to do what you do, but you want the volunteers >> in R Core to do some work for y

Re: [Rd] R 3.5.0 fails its regression test suite on Linux/x86_64

2018-04-24 Thread Peter Simons
Duncan Murdoch writes: >> ./configure --without-recommended-packages && make && make check > > So you're getting paid to do what you do, but you want the volunteers > in R Core to do some work for you for free. You are jumping to conclusions. Nobody pays me a single cent to package R for Nix;

Re: [Rd] R CMD build then check fails on R-devel due to serialization version

2018-04-24 Thread Tomas Kalibera
An update on the adoption of serialization format 3: R 3.5.0 (released yesterday) supports serialization format 3, but the default is still format 2 to make the transition easier. It is expected that the default will soon be changed to 3 in R-devel. Packages thus must not depend on what is t