[Rd] R 4.4.0 has version of Matrix 1.7-0, but it's not available on CRAN

[Simon Urbanek]

Everyone, take a deep breath - there have been many disruptions in last few days - some obvious, others associated with the R release and the BioC disruptions on CRAN, so there is no need to panic and start devising "solutions" for issues that are temporary. Things are being sorted out and some may take longer than others to settle. Feel free to report, but please don't speculate or try to "help". That said, you may find that this thread is obsolete by now (thanks to Kurt!), so no need to respond.

Cheers,
Simon


> On Apr 26, 2024, at 11:15 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 1:06 PM Ivan Krylov <ikrylov using disroot.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:32:59 +0200
>> Martin Maechler <maechler using stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> 
>>> Finally, I'd think it definitely would be nice for
>>> install.packages("Matrix") to automatically get the correct
>>> Matrix version from CRAN ... so we (R-core) would be grateful
>>> for a patch to install.packages() to achieve this
>> 
>> Since the binaries offered on CRAN are already of the correct version
>> (1.7-0 for -release and -devel), only source package installation needs
>> to concern itself with the Recommended subdirectory.
>> 
>> Would it be possible to generate the PACKAGES* index files in the
>> 4.4.0/Recommended subdirectory? Then on the R side it would be needed
>> to add a new repo (adjusting chooseCRANmirror() to set it together with
>> repos["CRAN"]) and keep the rest of the machinery intact.
> 
> That's not how this worked in the past AFAIR. Simply, the packages in
> the x.y.z/Recommended directories were included in
> src/contrib/PACKAGES*, metadata, with the correct R version
> dependencies, in the correct order, so that `install.packages()`
> automatically installed the correct version without having to add
> extra repositories or manually search for package files.
> E.g. right now we have
> 
> Package: Matrix
> Version: 1.7-0
> Priority: recommended
> Depends: R (>= 4.5), methods
> Path: 4.5.0/Recommended
> 
> for R 4.5.0. IMHO what we would need for R 4.4.0 is adding
> something like
> 
> Package: Matrix
> Version: 1.7-0
> Priority: recommended
> Depends: R (>= 4.4), methods
> Path: 4.4.0/Recommended
> 
> *after* that.
> 
> G.
> 
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