[Rd] install.packages("Bessel"): 'byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading' step outputs numeric vectors?!?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 14 October 2026 at 19:25, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
| What's up with:
| 
| ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
|  [1] 0.5     1       -1      2       -5      14      -42     132
| -429    1430    -4862   16796   -58786  208012  -742900
| c(0, 1, -1, 2, -5, 14, -42, 132, -429, 1430, -4862, 16796, -58786,
| 208012, -742900)
| 
| in:
| 
| > install.packages("Bessel", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")
| Installing package into
| '/home/hb/R/ubuntu24_04-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.6-CBI-gcc13'
| (as 'lib' is unspecified)
| trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Bessel_0.7-1.tar.gz'
| Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 193731 bytes (189 KB)
| ==================================================
| downloaded 189 KB
| 
| * installing *source* package ‘Bessel’ ...
| ** this is package ‘Bessel’ version ‘0.7-1’
| ** package ‘Bessel’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
| ** using staged installation
| ** libs
| using C compiler: ‘gcc (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04.1) 13.3.0’
| using Fortran compiler: ‘GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04.1) 13.3.0’
| gfortran  -fpic  -g -O2  -c IncompleteBessel.f -o IncompleteBessel.o
| gcc -std=gnu2x -I"/home/hb/shared/software/CBI/_ubuntu24_04/R-4.6.1-gcc13/lib/R/include"
| -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -g -O2  -c init.c -o init.o
| gcc -std=gnu2x -I"/home/hb/shared/software/CBI/_ubuntu24_04/R-4.6.1-gcc13/lib/R/include"
| -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -g -O2  -c zbsubs.c -o
| zbsubs.o
| gcc -std=gnu2x -shared
| -L/home/hb/shared/software/CBI/_ubuntu24_04/R-4.6.1-gcc13/lib/R/lib
| -L/usr/local/lib -o Bessel.so IncompleteBessel.o init.o zbsubs.o
| -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath
| -L/home/hb/shared/software/CBI/_ubuntu24_04/R-4.6.1-gcc13/lib/R/lib
| -lR
| installing to /home/hb/R/ubuntu24_04-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.6-CBI-gcc13/00LOCK-Bessel/00new/Bessel/libs
| ** R
| ** inst
| ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
|  [1] 0.5     1       -1      2       -5      14      -42     132
| -429    1430    -4862   16796   -58786  208012  -742900
| c(0, 1, -1, 2, -5, 14, -42, 132, -429, 1430, -4862, 16796, -58786,
| 208012, -742900)
| ** help
| *** installing help indices
| ** building package indices
| ** installing vignettes
| ** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
| ** checking absolute paths in shared objects and dynamic libraries
| ** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
| ** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
| * DONE (Bessel)
| 
| I get this with R 4.6.1 on Ubuntu 24.04 and on Rocky 9.

Might be more a question for the maintainer (CC'ed) than for R-devel?

This silences it, was easy enough to find just by looking for a print():

edd using paul:/tmp/r$ diff -ru Bessel.orig/ Bessel
diff -ru Bessel.orig/R/lsum.R Bessel/R/lsum.R
--- Bessel.orig/R/lsum.R        2026-09-27 02:18:26.000000000 -0500
+++ Bessel/R/lsum.R     2026-10-14 21:30:21.551083644 -0500
@@ -73,10 +73,10 @@
 ## NB: Binomial series of (1+u)^(1/2), exact coefficients  c_j / 2^(2j-1) :
 {
     k <- 0:14
-    print(quote=FALSE, width=130, # + rm space
-          chk <- formatC(ck <- choose(1/2, k) * 2^(2*k-1), width=1, format="fg"))
+    #print(quote=FALSE, width=130, # + rm space
+          chk <- formatC(ck <- choose(1/2, k) * 2^(2*k-1), width=1, format="fg")#)
     ## 0.5   1    -1   2    -5   14   -42  132  -429  1430  -4862  16796  -58786 208012 -742900
-    dput(round(ck)) # loses the 0.5
+    #dput(round(ck)) # loses the 0.5
     ## c(0, 1, -1, 2, -5, 14, -42, 132, -429, 1430, -4862, 16796, -58786, 208012, -742900)
     ## correct :
     ckT <- c(0.5, 1, -1, 2, -5, 14, -42, 132, -429, 1430, -4862, 16796, -58786, 208012, -742900)
edd using paul:/tmp/r$ 

Dirk

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