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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Feb 22, 2011, at 5:29 PM, <Ken.Williams at thomsonreuters.com> <Ken.Williams at thomsonreuters.com> wrote:

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> On 2/22/11 4:25 PM, "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
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>> On Feb 22, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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>>> Anyway---I will point our OS X user to source installs.
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>> Well, I don't think that helps in any way - the test will still fail for
>> all 10.5 users. Why don't you just fix the test? It's up to you, but
>> removing Rcpp from CRAN won't help anyone (well, almost ;)).
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> Actually it helps a great deal, it means that 10.6 users can install
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Can you explain? You can always install from sources (provided you have all the tools etc.) - regardless whether there is a binary or not...


> What's this about removing Rcpp from CRAN though?  Just a joke I assume?
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No, why?

Cheers,
Simon