[R-pkg-devel] Note to repository maintainers about ABI change in Matrix 1.6-2

[Mikael Jagan]

On 2023-11-10 5:04 pm, Mikael Jagan wrote:
> For repositories != CRAN:
> 
> Matrix 1.6-2 was released on Nov 8.  Due to an ABI change, repositories
> maintaining R package binaries should ensure that binaries for the first
> order reverse LinkingTo of Matrix are rebuilt under Matrix 1.6-2:
> 
> 
>   > db <- available.packages(repos = "https://cran.r-project.org/")
>   > tools::package_dependencies("Matrix", db = db, which = "LinkingTo", reverse =
> TRUE)[[1L]]
>    [1] "ahMLE"               "bayesWatch"          "cplm"
>    [4] "GeneralizedWendland" "geostatsp"           "hibayes"
>    [7] "irlba"               "lme4"                "mcmcsae"
> [10] "OpenMx"              "PRIMME"              "robustlmm"
> [13] "spGARCH"             "TMB"
> 

The following additional packages were found to have stale SClassExtension
objects cached in their namespaces:

     MatrixModels, SeuratObject, softImpute

and so their binaries should be rebuilt also.

Mikael

> 
> Typically, ABI changes occur only rarely, when Matrix updates the internal
> SuiteSparse libraries and _those_ libraries change _their_ ABI.  This case
> is an exception: we discovered that certain function prototypes in our
> headers were inconsistent with corresponding prototypes in the SuiteSparse
> headers, and the "consistent" prototypes were not binary compatible.
> 
> It is for this reason (and others) that Matrix has begun versioning its ABI,
> as I announced in an earlier thread on R-SIG-Mac:
> 
>       https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2023-October/014890.html
> 
> That (in addition to future, more proactive announcements on mailing lists)
> should allow repository maintainers to adapt sooner going forward.
> 
> Mikael