[Rcpp-devel] Ancient Rcpp for OS X on CRAN [Was: Building/linking trouble with cxxfunction()]

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 22 February 2011 at 12:45, Simon Urbanek wrote:
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| On Feb 22, 2011, at 12:32 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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| > On 22 February 2011 at 11:26, Ken.Williams at thomsonreuters.com wrote:
| > | On 2/22/11 11:13 AM, "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| > | >Just a quick note to say that ...
| > | >
| > | >On 22 February 2011 at 10:53, Ken.Williams at thomsonreuters.com wrote:
| > | >| got farther, so now I'm getting correct output from it.  BTW, I changed
| > | >| the prereq on Rcpp from 0.9.0 to 0.8.6 since that's the latest public
| > | >| release.
| > | >
| > | >... this ain't so. Are you running an old R version that looks into a
| > | >versioned subtree of CRAN?  Rcpp is at 0.9.1, its Archive/ has the
| > | >history up
| > | >from 0.6.0. See http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/index.html
| > | 
| > | Oh!  Looks like the GUI package installer in R.app was set to just show
| > | the latest OS X binary on CRAN, which is 0.8.6. Is there some reason
| > | that's trailing the source release?
| > 
| > Crap, you're absolutely correct. Forgot about the OS X aspect, as well as my
| > mental note to bug Simon about the stone-old build, so doing that now.
| > 
| > Simon:  Are there are any reasons Rcpp is frozen on a version that is five
| > months old and five releases behind?  
| > 
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| Yes, it's not passing checks - it's that simple:
| http://www.R-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-prerel-macosx-ix86/Rcpp-00check.html

Tres etrange, as Romain develops on OS X himself. I will have to pass on this
one for lack of access to such shiny hardware.  He may fix it, or he may not.
I vaguely recall us discussing that with you and Romain's inability to
reproduce it.  As such, chances of improvement may be slim.  Tant pis.

| And OS X is not the only place as you'll see when you look at
| http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_Rcpp.html

I do look there regularly but I cannot fix Slowlaris and the funky SunOS
compiler messages until we get the rumoured 'bin-builder'. 

Hints for shutting up R-devel on the 'size' NOTE concerning the arbitrary 1mb
cutoff (hey, "640kb should be enough for everyone" so why not use that?) would
be welcome too.

Dirk

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