[Rcpp-devel] [Pre-ANN] RcppArmadillo 0.7.960.1.0

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:

Dirk:

When checking the reverse depends, we're seeing problems with quanteda,
both with the old version of this as well as the new one published last
night.  E.g.

Package: quanteda [Old version: 0.9.9-65, New version: 0.99]
Check: examples
New result: ERROR
  Running examples in ‘quanteda-Ex.R’ failed
  The error most likely occurred in:
  
  > base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
  > ### Name: textmodel_wordfish
  > ### Title: wordfish text model
  > ### Aliases: textmodel_wordfish
  > 
  > ### ** Examples
  > 
  > textmodel_wordfish(data_dfm_lbgexample, dir = c(1,5))
  Error in wordfishcpp_mt(x, as.integer(dir), 1/(priors^2), tol, disp, dispersion_floor,  : 
    dfmSparse is not supported.
  Calls: textmodel_wordfish -> textmodel_wordfish.dfm -> wordfishcpp_mt -> .Call
  Execution halted

and in fact all problems seem to have the "dfmSparse is not supported."
errors.  Are you seeing these too?  Should we contact the quanteda
maintainer about this?

Best
-k


> RcppArmadillo 0.7.960.1.0 has been ready for a few days and sitting at CRAN,
> due to a seemingly unlucky combination of travel, weekend,, systems outage
> and what not.  But it has been five full days now , and nobody has told me
> what if anything is non-standard with the package so ... I give up now.

> So it is as of now also in the drat repo for the RcppCore org, so just see
> the README.md at
>     https://github.com/RcppCore/drat
> which has the following example which is applicable:

>     # first add the repo
>     drat:::add("RcppCore")
>     # either install just one or more given packages
>     install.packages("RcppArmadillo")
>     # or update already installed packages
>     update.packages()

> You can also add the repo URL by hand to options("repos"), or supply it to
> install.packages(), or ...  I happen to like drat.

> The files NEWS.Rd and ChangeLog have the goods, I make a fuller announcement
> if and when it makes it to CRAN.

> This release features a lot of excellent Google Summer of Code work by
> Binxiang Ni.  Again, more about that if and when we get to make a true
> release announcement.

> Dirk

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