[Rcpp-devel] Ancient Rcpp for OS X on CRAN [Was: Building/linking trouble with cxxfunction()]
On 2/22/11 4:33 PM, "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
On Feb 22, 2011, at 5:29 PM, <Ken.Williams at thomsonreuters.com> <Ken.Williams at thomsonreuters.com> wrote:
On 2/22/11 4:25 PM, "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
On Feb 22, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Anyway---I will point our OS X user to source installs.
Well, I don't think that helps in any way - the test will still fail for all 10.5 users. Why don't you just fix the test? It's up to you, but removing Rcpp from CRAN won't help anyone (well, almost ;)).
Actually it helps a great deal, it means that 10.6 users can install something.
Can you explain? You can always install from sources (provided you have all the tools etc.) - regardless whether there is a binary or not...
That's true - but for most OS X users, myself included until just a couple hours ago, it looks like (when using the R.app GUI install tools) the oldest successfully-built binary is the "latest available version", unless someone like Dirk points us to the source install and says it should work fine. So it certainly helped me because I didn't know what I was missing.
What's this about removing Rcpp from CRAN though? Just a joke I assume?
No, why?
Because it's a useful package, of course. And CRAN is where someone should go to find useful R packages. -- Ken Williams Senior Research Scientist Thomson Reuters http://labs.thomsonreuters.com