[Rd] RStartup.h: invalid parameter name: 'new' is a keyword

Martin Maechler m@ech|er @end|ng |rom @t@t@m@th@ethz@ch
Wed Apr 8 18:33:07 CEST 2026


To resolve the thread:

  The variable is no longer called `new`  but `newval` in both
  R-devel (r89808) and  "R 4.6.0 alpha" (r89810).


>>>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel 
>>>>>     on Wed, 8 Apr 2026 06:49:20 -0500 writes:

    > On 8 April 2026 at 12:43, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
    > | On Wed, Apr 8, 2026 at 11:27 AM Peter Dalgaard <pdalgd using gmail.com> wrote:
    > | >
    > | > Do you have an example? (I'd rather not go through all of CRAN to find a package with that #include...)
    > | 
    > | E.g. any package that depends on 'RcppProgress', such as word2vec.

    > The CRAN 'mirror' at GitHub is helpful in the absence of proper code search
    > engines. A quick search for R_ext/RStartup.h finds ninc occurrences which
    > includes double counting.  Interestingly RcppProgress is not among them...

    > See https://github.com/search?q=org%3Acran%20R_ext%2FRStartup.h&type=code

    > Dirk



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