Re: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:28 PM, wrote: > (https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/ALTREP/ALTREP.html outlines the > framework). Thank you for the nice writeup, hope this makes it into the R journal. The spelling package finds a few typos: >

[Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages

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