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

[Ken.Williams at thomsonreuters.com]

On 2/22/11 4:33 PM, "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:

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>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
>> something.
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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...

That's true - but for most OS X users, myself included until just a couple
hours ago, it looks like (when using the R.app GUI install tools) the
oldest successfully-built binary is the "latest available version", unless
someone like Dirk points us to the source install and says it should work
fine.  So it certainly helped me because I didn't know what I was missing.


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

Because it's a useful package, of course.  And CRAN is where someone
should go to find useful R packages.


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