[Rd] Linking to the BH package introduces CRAN warnings

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Gentlemen,

On 4 November 2014 at 23:36, kaveh wrote:
| Dear Hadley,
| 
| Thank you for this information, maybe the CRAN gods
| will look favourably on this case too,

You seemed to have missed a point my earlier email tried to stress: Inclusion
of BH does not lead to the warning.  

All this depends on WHICH headers are included, and the OP will need to sort
this out by modifying his code.

Dirk
 
| Best regards,
| 
| On 2014-11-04 23:32, Hadley Wickham wrote:
| >>> | However, it seems some of the codes in the BH package
| >>> | might. At any rate, when I include some boost headers such as
| >>> | boost/math/distributions/ through BH, I get the following warnings
| >>> |   when  submitting to the win-builder page:
| >>> |
| >>> |
| >>> |    Found '_ZSt4cerr', possibly from 'std::cerr' (C++)
| >>> |
| >>> |    Found 'abort', possibly from 'abort' (C), 'runtime' (Fortran)
| >>> |
| >>> |    Found '_ZSt4cerr', possibly from 'std::cerr' (C++)
| >>> |
| >>> |    Found 'abort', possibly from 'abort' (C), 'runtime' (Fortran)
| >> You’re kind of out of luck. These functions are both:
| >>   - used by the boost headers
| >>   - forbidden by R, well at least forbidden by CRAN
| > Maaaaybe - I had this note in RSQLite, and CRAN seemed ok with my explanation:
| >
| > * checking compiled code ... NOTE
| >    File ‘/Users/hadley/Documents/databases/RSQLite.Rcheck/RSQLite/libs/RSQLite.so’:
| >      Found ‘___stderrp’, possibly from ‘stderr’ (C)
| >        Object: ‘sqlite-all.o’
| >
| >    This is in C code from the embedded SQLite database.
| >
| >
| > Hadley
| >
| 

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