[Bioc-devel] [External] different generator for random integers in R-devel

[Tierney, Luke]

Use RNGversion("3.5.0") instead.

Best,

luke


On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, Stadler, Michael wrote:

> Dear maintainers of the BioC build system
>
> I have a shy questions regarding R-devel versions on the build machines:
>
> Currently, these use different versions of R-devel: 
> malbec2 | Linux ...   | R Under development (unstable) (2019-01-21 r75999)
> tokay2  | Windows ... | R Under development (unstable) (2019-03-09 r76216)
> merida2 | OS X ...    | R Under development (unstable) (2018-11-27 r75683)
> celaya2 | OS X ...    | R Under development (unstable) (2019-01-22 r76000)
>
> A recent change in R-devel
> (mostly in r76160, see https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/e4acfd1f240a42b3fc1474a4d97017114e4eb053)
> has changed the behaviour of sample()
> (see also https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17494 and https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2018-September/076817.html).
>
> In order to maintain backward compatibility, we are using RNGkind(..., sample.kind = "Rounding")
> to temporarily fall back to the behaviour of R-3.5. However, this will cause an error on R-devel < r76160,
> where RNGkind() does not yet understand the "sample.kind" argument (currently malbec2, merida2 and celaya2).
>
> This will obviously resolve itself once R-devel gets updated on the build machines, latest upon release of BioC 3.9.
> I am just curious whether R-devel will be updated on the builders before that, so this issue does not mask other
> potential problems in our package (QuasR).
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
>
>
>
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