[R] Error in installing pbmcapply / WhatIf

[Ashim Kapoor]

Dear Ivan,

OK and thank you for your help.

Best Regards,
Ashim

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 3:34 PM Ivan Krylov <krylov.r00t using gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:48:50 +0530
> Ashim Kapoor <ashimkapoor using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > R version 3.3.3 (2017-03-06)
>
> > process.c:10:23: error: unknown type name ‘DllInfo’
>
> DllInfo is defined in R_ext/Rdynload.h [1].
>
> process.c only includes Rinternals.h [2], which has been including
> R_ext/Rdynload.h since September 2016 [3]. Unfortunately, R 3.3.3 from
> Debian Stretch does not contain this change [4].
>
> On the one hand, a cursory look at latest "Writing R extensions" doesn't
> seem to indicate that Rinternals.h is guaranteed to include
> R_ext/Rdynload.h, so this may turn out to be a bug in pbmcapply (easily
> fixable by adding an #include). But that discussion is better suited
> for R-pkg-devel.
>
> On the other hand, there is an excellent Debian repo [5] containing the
> latest version of R which should be able to build pbmcapply without a
> problem.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Ivan
>
> [1]
>
> https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/22441d30384507d9d358a1e1c13f311d7a1b3627/src/include/R_ext/Rdynload.h#L70
>
> [2]
>
> https://github.com/kvnkuang/pbmcapply/blob/ef95ca6a23e003b45ec97b2aa55b7cb01d21363b/src/process.c#L3
>
> [3]
>
> https://github.com/wch/r-source/blame/22441d30384507d9d358a1e1c13f311d7a1b3627/src/include/Rinternals.h#L51
>
> [4]
> https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/tags/R-3-3-3/src/include/Rinternals.h
>
> [5] https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/
>

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