[Rd] 7 arguments passed to .Internal(identical) which requires 6

Matthew Dowle mdowle at mdowle.plus.com
Thu Jun 7 12:12:37 CEST 2012


Prof Ripley wrote :
> (AFAIK the CRAN binary package providers expect users to be
> using the current version of R.)

I guess it's quite common practice for very many users to fail that
expectation. I for one do. I'm used to seeing "Warning: package <x> was
build using <the latest R>" when installing from CRAN. But if the package
states "Depends (R >= 2.12.0)", for example, then I assume it's ok to use
it in R 2.14.1, for instance. As long as it passes its test suite in the
version of R I'm using, that's the main thing. Is that wrong?

Matthew



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