Matrix install fails because of defunct save in require
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Thomas Petzoldt wrote:
On 17.09.2010 20:04, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
I'm not sure why end users would be using R-devel rather than R-alpha at this point, but I have already changed R-devel to allow Matrix to get updated before it fails.
Yes I realized the update and successfully recompiled it. Many thanks. "End users" or package developers want to keep own packages compatible with future versions, so maintaining svn syncs is much more efficient than downloading snapshoots. In the current case it would have been much easier
But many of us svn sync e.g. R-2-12-branch rather than use snapshots.
for me, of course, to go back to an older svn release (as I sometimes do). However, I felt to be responsible for reporting issues as contribution to the open source development process. O.K., I'll wait a little bit longer in the future and many thanks for developing this great software.
I think the advice in the Windows binary download page 'This is a development version of R. It likely contains bugs, so be careful if you use it. Please don't report bugs in this version through the usual R bug reporting system, please report them on the r-devel mailing list---but only if they persist for a few days.' is spot-on. It takes at least several hours, maybe a couple of days, for the package checks to reveal problems with changes in R-devel, especially platform-specific ones.
ThPe
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595