[R-pkg-devel] cpp11 and "non-API calls to R"

[Ben Bolker]

   Have you contacted the maintainer directly (i.e. by e-mail)?  (Yes, 
they should be paying attention to Github, but trying another channel 
never hurts.)

   My personal experience is that I was succeeded in submitting a 
package update to CRAN even though there were NOTEs of this sort (in 
that case SET_TYPEOF) arising from an upstream package 
<https://github.com/RcppCore/Rcpp/issues/1312>; I explained the issue in 
my cover letter.

   It may take a while to sort out all of the fallout from the 
tightening of the API rules; I think the CRAN maintainers are aware of this.

   cheers
    Ben Bolker


On 2024-07-08 10:24 a.m., Mark Padgham wrote:
> Dear R-pkg-dev folk,
> 
> The cpp11 package, which was developed yet is no longer maintained by
> Jim Hester, now triggers warnings on some CRAN pre-submit checks for
> "non-API calls to R" via "SETLENGTH", "SET_TRUELENGTH", and others. The
> relevant issue is https://github.com/r-lib/cpp11/issues/355, with a pull
> request to resolve at https://github.com/r-lib/cpp11/pull/358. Problem
> is the package is now largely inactive, with the PR hanging there for a
> month or so unattended. I presume this warning means I can not resubmit
> any package depending on cpp11 until this is resolved. But then there
> are currently 75 packages potentially affected by this which would then
> also be unable to be resubmitted. (Follow the links from the main GitHub
> issue for a glimpse of the scale of this problem.)
> 
> Any suggestions? In particular, it would be helpful, in this arguably
> unusual and quite prominent case, to hear any views from CRAN folk as to
> whether everybody dependent on cpp11 will have to wait for resolution
> before they'll be able to resubmit? Alternatively, any indication from
> anybody in a position to opine on cpp11 status and future maintenance
> plans would be great!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 
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