[Rd] seek() and gzfile() on 32-bit R2.12.0 in linux

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Martin Maechler wrote:

>>>>>> "BW" == Brandon Whitcher <bwhitcher at gmail.com>
>>>>>>     on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:14:35 +0100 writes:
>
>    BW> Peter, thanks for your comments.  The reason I have taken this issue
>    BW> to R-devel is from the advice of Kurt Hornik.  An update to my package
>    BW> oro.nifti is being refused by CRAN because it fails on the
>    BW> _development_ version of R on 32-bit linux.  As we have just discussed
>    BW> (and thanks to Matt's input), the problem is not with my package but
>    BW> with the development version of R.  Hence, I wanted to alert to the R
>    BW> Core Development Team that the _unstable_ version of R appears to have
>    BW> a problem.
>
>    BW> Obviously, I would prefer to have my new version of oro.nifti accepted
>    BW> by CRAN... but at the moment I am in between a rock and a hard place.
>    BW> I agree that the 2.12.0 release of R is quite far in the future.  Is
>    BW> there a possibility of relaxing the exclusion criteria
>    BW> for CRAN?
>
> Well, the criteria are very  good as a general rule,
> but in the case where a new/changed package reveals a *bug* in
> R-devel (only), the package of course should still be released
> to CRAN.
> So the only remaining problem for you ;-)
> is to convince the CRAN maintainers that indeed this is a bug in
> R-devel, or probably in  zlib 1.2.4 (R 2.11.x uses zlib 1.2.3).
>
> Within R-core, Brian Ripley has been the zlib "principal
> investigator", and I'd wait a bit for his comment on this issue.

I've no time at present, or more precisely what very little time I 
have has other priorities.  Back to more normal July 12.

Brian

>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich and R-Core Team
>
>    BW> cheers...
>    BW> Brandon
>
>      PD> Please notice that there is NO release of R 2.12.0 until some time
>      PD> around October. You are using a build from the UNSTABLE development
>      PD> branch. The stable branch is 2.11.1 with a release date of May 31. If
>      PD> Ubuntu is claiming that there is such a thing as a R 2.12.0 release, I'd
>      PD> say that they  have a problem.
>
>      PD> Not that we don't welcome reports on problems in the development branch,
>      PD> but do notice that it is by definition UNSTABLE, and that bugs can come
>      PD> and go without notice.
>
>      PD> -pd
>
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