[Rcpp-devel] dataptr / char_get_string_elt not provided by package ‘Rcpp’

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 5 February 2014 at 10:45, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
| A couple of Bioconductor packages have these errors:
| 
| package: DOSE
| 
| error:
| 
| function ‘char_get_string_elt’ not provided by package ‘Rcpp’
| Execution halted
| 
| package: GOSim
| 
| error:
| 
|  function ‘dataptr’ not provided by package ‘Rcpp’

See below. 


| I see in 
| https://github.com/RcppCore/Rcpp/issues/92

That ticket is __closed__ so why do you look there?

Logs for Rcpp testing are at https://github.com/RcppCore/rcpp-logs
Poke around there, particular in the status/ directory

All that was communicated here.

| Does this indicate the issue has not been resolved? Or is there a workaround?

In most cases, yes. As shown in the repo and here.  

To sum up again:

  i)  Either one of

         function 'enterRNGScope' not provided by package 'Rcpp'

         function ‘char_get_string_elt’ not provided by package ‘Rcpp’

      can be fixed by strengthening the Rcpp initialization.

  ii) For that I provided patches doing this, noted it in the announcements
      and release notes.  

      You now need

          DESCRIPTION:   Imports: Rcpp                 instead of Depends:

          NAMESPACE:     importFrom(Rcpp, evalCpp)   

      Sometimes a simple import(Rcpp) works, the importFrom(Rcpp, evalRcpp)
      is better. It can use any symbol, evalCpp is nice and short.

That should do.  The odd thing is that packages sometimes pass (which is why
the defect rate was down to < 10 when we released -- count based on my
machine) but fail on other machines.

In any case, the fix for i) above is to do what is in ii)

Ok?

In your particular case, you may also consider picking up the phone and
making an in-house call to Kevin who tested all of BioC prior to release as
well. And that too was noted in my release announcement.

Dirk

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