Potential recompilation of certain packages
A.J. Rossini wrote:
And the obvious question, given the timing, "does this apply to 1.5.1?"
Good question. No, it should not have anything to do with that. And, my guess is that you will notice it immediately on calling library() on any of the affected packages with a large seg-fault. At least its dramatic :-) D.
best, -tony
"duncan" == Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@research.bell-labs.com> writes:
duncan> This applies to people working with the up-to-the-minute
duncan> source taken directly or indirectly from the CVS
duncan> repository. Changes to the mechanism for registering
duncan> native (C and Fortran) routines in DLLs/shared libraries
duncan> and the package level data structures mean that you will
duncan> have to recompile any package that uses this approach to
duncan> exporting routines. These include all of the MASS
duncan> packages, but few others (yet :-)). No changes to those
duncan> packages are necessary, just a simple re-installation.
duncan> The changes allow one to specify types for the parameter
duncan> of the routines, and also whether they contain useful
duncan> output values when returned to R. These have the potential
duncan> to avoid unecessary copying and are more robust to errors
duncan> in types passed to the routines.
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