[Rd] Testing window for R 2.13.0

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 18 March 2011 at 21:22, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| We are now starting testing R 2.13.0/alpba/beta/RC and testing and 
| feedback would be appreciated (whereas reports on problems immediately 
| after release will try our patience).
| 
| Sources are available at
| http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/
| Windows binaries at
| http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rtest.html
| and Mac binaries at http://r.research.att.com/, specifically
| http://r.research.att.com/R-2.13-branch-leopard.pkg
| (and it is best to use the CRAN master rather than mirrors which will 
| lag behind).
| 
| Please report (success as well as failure except on the most common 
| platforms) here, R-windows at r-project.org or R-sig-mac at r-project.org. 
| We probably have good coverage of Debian/Fedora i686/x86_64 Linux, Mac 
| OS X, Windows, Solaris and x86_64 FreeBSD 8.2: reports on other 
| platforms would be particularly welcome.

Yup, see https://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=r-base which reports details
on the build of the snapshot I uploaded yesterday. Summary state is:

Version	Architecture	Latest Build Time	Latest Build State
2.13.0~20110316-1	alpha  	     		Thu Mar 17 15:07:25 2011	maybe-successful
			amd64			Thu Mar 17 14:09:25 2011	maybe-successful
			armel			Thu Mar 17 15:15:10 2011	maybe-successful
			hppa			Fri Mar 18 12:41:58 2011	maybe-successful
			hurd-i386		Thu Mar 17 17:59:38 2011	maybe-successful
			ia64			Thu Mar 17 15:27:36 2011	maybe-successful
			kfreebsd-amd64		Thu Mar 17 14:28:18 2011	maybe-successful
			kfreebsd-i386		Thu Mar 17 14:27:10 2011	maybe-successful
			mips			Thu Mar 17 15:39:41 2011	maybe-successful
			mipsel			Thu Mar 17 23:18:13 2011	maybe-successful
			powerpc			Thu Mar 17 14:18:20 2011	maybe-successful
			s390			Thu Mar 17 14:13:31 2011	maybe-successful
			sparc			Thu Mar 17 14:35:22 2011	maybe-successful

(Intel 32-bit not listed as my local upload is not rebuilt on the build
servers; we will do that 'eventually' but so far we don't.)

(And 'maybe-successful' is the strongest wording here meaning absence of
failure which does not by itself presence of success ;-)

So for anyone running Debian testing and willing to fetch this from unstable,
especially on the more esoteric platforms (s390 anyone? ;-): please do so.

CRAN ports are usually not built; if you want Ubuntu or Debian backports
tweak Michael's or Johannes' arm...

Dirk (on behalf of Debian)

| There have been a number of confused postings about 64-bit R on 
| Solaris: the R-admin manual in this version contains detailed 
| instructions on what works for us (Solaris Studio 12.2 and 12u1, and 
| gcc4 on Sparc) and what doesn't (gcc on amd64) and why.
| 
| Package maintainers should review the results for their packages at
| http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html
| and submit updates if needed as soon as possible and definitely well 
| before April 13.  That page is in the process of migration to 
| R-prerel: for now the most useful columns are r-devel (Fedora), 
| r-devel (Windows, really R-prerel) and the Solaris x86 column.
| 
| Brian Ripley (for the R-core team)
| 
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