[Rprotobuf-yada] R version

[Romain Francois]

Le 11/09/10 18:37, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
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> On 11 September 2010 at 09:23, eckuipers-web at yahoo.com wrote:
> | Is here any particular reason why RProtobuf requires R version 2.11.0 or higher?
>
> Nope. We just happen to run current versions and sometimes encode this
> somewhat sloppily.

Yes and No, but mostly no.

No because RProtoBuf uses the controllable internal web server for the 
RPC system, and the web server was introduced in R 2.11.0

Yes because, well nobody knows or uses the RPC system so far. Blame it 
on our marketing.

Romain

> I _think_ that everything in our nexus that is on CRAN
> should actually work with 2.10.* but I am not entirely sure.  For Rcpp 0.8.6
> I just dialed it back down from 2.11 to 2.10.
>
> That said, Rcpp in SVN  just switched to R 2.12 because we are matching /
> extending / cooperating with some internal changes there.  That is explicit
> and on purpose.  But for the others older releases should work.
>
> | I have version 2.10.1 installed and rather not upgrade (since its the version we
> | use on all computers at my work)
>
> Poor you :)  I run Ubuntu server at work using 10.4 and get current R
> versions from CRAN thanks to the backporters Vincent and Michael.
>
> In short: just edit DESCRIPTION and move on. You should be fine.  Try R CMD
> check as well.
>
> Dirk


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