From kevin.hendricks at sympatico.ca  Sat Feb  7 18:11:04 2009
From: kevin.hendricks at sympatico.ca (Kevin Hendricks)
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 12:11:04 -0500
Subject: [Rd] New package test results available
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Hi,

Please ignore this request ..  I found it in the Rext.pdf manual ...   
DUH!

The revised package Rigroup_0.83.0.tar.gz has been uploaded.  It  
passes R CMD check on version R 2.8.0 and hopefully with the new  
parser in the development tree as well.

Sorry for the noise.

Kevin


On 7-Feb-09, at 11:39 AM, Kevin Hendricks wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am the maintainer for the Rigroup package.  Based on the e-mail  
> below, I found and fixed a warning (spurious right brace) in the  
> manual for my package under the new parser.
>
> It has been a number of years since I last revised the package and I  
> am not sure where and how to upload it.  I looked on the "developer"  
> page but did not see anything that said where to upload revised  
> packages.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience but could someone please direct me to  
> where I find the instructions for uploading revised packages.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
> On 7-Feb-09, at 2:22 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> We've added a column at
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html
>>
>> of test results using the Sun Studio compiler: it is intended that  
>> these will be updated weekly.
>>
>> The Sun Studio compiler is that used on Solaris: these runs were on  
>> the Linux version.  All the other platforms are using gcc 4, so  
>> this provides an opportunity for checking for use of gcc-specific  
>> features and also standards conformance (the Sun compilers have a  
>> long-time reputation for close conformance to the language  
>> standards).
>>
>> There are known problems where packages use C++ or JNI interfaces  
>> (e.g. rgdal and EBImage) as the libraries and JVM were compiled  
>> under gcc's conventions (even though a Sun JVMi is used).  About  
>> half the packages using rJava segfault, which seems to a JNI issue.
>>
>> Some packages use gcc-specific compiler flags:
>>
>> LogConcDEAD Matching amap geometry memisc taskPR
>>
>> but the vast majority of the errors reported are C++ errors.  One  
>> class that may not be immediately obvious is the use of C headers  
>> in C++: you are supposed to write e.g.
>>
>> #includd <cmath>
>>
>> NOT
>>
>> #include <math.h>
>>
>> Symptoms of this can be seen for packages
>>
>> BayesTree EMCC MCMCfglmm MarkedPointProcess Matching Matrix
>> RQuantlib RandomFields Rcpp SoPhy compHclust dpmix igraph minet
>> mixer modeest monomvm multic pcaPP rgenoud robfilter segclust
>> simecol subselect
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> 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
>>
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[Rd] New package test results available
Kevin Hendricks