Dear R developpers,
On the 20th of July, I sent an email to the CRAN team asking respectfully if they would consider adding more LAPACK routines to the R's source tree. Since, I have not received a response from them, I now assume that maybe I used the wrong communication channel (and I apologise if this is the case).
My goal is to revive the "IndependenceTests" package, which was archived in 2021.
I was able to resolve most of the issues, but I still have 2 WARNINGs and 1 NOTE, such as:
Warning: GNU Extension: Nonstandard type declaration COMPLEX*16 at (1)
I cannot solve these issues without modifying several (old) Lapack Fortran source files.
In Section 6.7 of the "Writing R Extensions" manual, I read that the current set of LAPACK subroutines included in R "might be supplemented".
Moreover, in https://github.com/SurajGupta/r-source/blob/master/src/modules/lapack/README
I see that some Lapack files (not all the ones I need, unfortunately) were added over the years to the R source tree.
The file I would like to be added is:
zhpevx.f
which in turn needs those below that are not in the R Lapack:
lsame.f
xerbla.f
zhptrd.f
zlanhp.f
zstein.f
zupgtr.f
zupmtr.f
Would you kindly let me know if:
1.
A formal request to add these LAPACK routines to R's source is something the CRAN team would consider?
2.
Alternatively, would a submission with these remaining warnings still be acceptable?
I fully understand if this falls outside the scope of CRAN's intended support, but any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
I wish you a nice day.
Kind regards,
Pierre L.
From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
Sent: Saturday, 12 July 2025 16:05
To: Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux <lafaye at unsw.edu.au>
Cc: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
Subject: winbuilder: Package IndependenceTests_0.6.tar.gz has been checked and built
Dear package maintainer,
this notification has been generated automatically.
Your package IndependenceTests_0.6.tar.gz has been built (if working) and checked for Windows.
Please check the log files and (if working) the binary package at:
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The files will be removed after roughly 72 hours.
Installation time in seconds: 36
Check time in seconds: 67
Status: 2 WARNINGs, 1 NOTE
R Under development (unstable) (2025-07-11 r88405 ucrt)
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Uwe Ligges
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