[R-sig-Debian] FW: Warnings

[Gorjanc Gregor]

> Thank you, Gregor,
>
> for the feedback,
>
> >>>>> "GG" == Gorjanc Gregor <Gregor.Gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si>
> >>>>>     on Thu, 6 Dec 2007 14:46:03 +0100 writes:
>
>   GG> Hmm,
>  GG> another one, but error this time!
>
>    li> library(Matrix)
>    GG> Loading required package: lattice
>    >> round(1)
>    GG> Error in .Internal(round(x, digits)) : no internal function "round"
>
> "Of course", I cannot reproduce that either.
>
> It must a broken setup / mix of R version and package versions.
> Note that 0.99875-2 does *not* work (correctly) with R-2.6.0 and
> newer.

I have a clean/fresh install so this is related to package not updated in Ubuntu.
IMHO this indicates a "buglet" in Depends syntax. If I am right, 0.99875-2
should not be installed on R-2.6.0 or newer. Using Depends somenthing like
R (<= 2.5.1) would result in proper dependencies, but I see that this is leading
to additional work for package developer in general.

> OTOH, we (Matrix authors) would be very happy if you used the latest
> version of Matrix {from CRAN} rather than the Ubuntu/Debian one
> which is currently a bit behind (for good "package dependency"
> reasons I think, but still):
> 0.999375-3 was released early October, and included quite a bit
> of work during the summer.

OK, Thanks!