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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Kurt,

Much appreciate the update.

On 16 August 2017 at 17:23, Kurt Hornik wrote:
| >>>>> 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?

I have been seeing _fairly consistent_ failures for quanteda with both Rcpp
and RcppArmadillo for quite some time.  You can see more details at the usual
rcpp-logs repo.

As such, I have ignored its most recent failure with RcppArmadillo
0.7.960.1.0. The last (of several) reverse depends logs preceding the upload
has its summary here:
https://github.com/RcppCore/rcpp-logs/blob/master/results/rcpparmadillo/RcppArmadillo-Summary-20170810.txt
As you can see: 372 passed, 3 failed and 2 were skipped by my choice.

On occassion, I dive into packages that fail, ie Rob's "forecast" apparently
only failed for me but not elsewhere.  As it was reproducible, Rob and I
agreed on a change he made.  So it no longer fails for me either.

Similarly, preceding the currently-pending upload of a new BH I have reached
out to two packages one of which was already updated, the other is pending.
But I don't have the bandwidth to chase all failures for all packages, and
some are too persistent. And that is why I uploaded RcppArmadillo last Friday.

Dirk

| 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
| 
| > -- 
| > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
| 

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