[R-sig-Debian] r-cran-* packages with recent R alpha release

[Johannes Ranke]

Hi,

from the NEWS file of R-devel:

CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.14.0:

  SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES:

    o All packages must have a namespace, and one is created on
      installation if not supplied in the sources.  This means that any
      package without a namespace must be re-installed under this
      version of R (but data-only packages without R code can still be
      used).

Cheers,

Johannes

On Tuesday 18 October 2011 22:42:20 Michael Rutter wrote:
> On 10/18/2011 12:24 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > On 18 October 2011 at 11:00, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
> > | Hi,
> > | 
> > | After the recent r-base and r-base-core alpha releases in sid, some
> > | packages fail to load, e.g. r-cran-bitops:
> > | 
> > | R>  library(bitops)
> > | 
> > | Error in library(bitops) :
> > |   package ‘bitops’ does not have a NAMESPACE and should be re-installed
> > | 
> > | I suppose these errors will get fixed after 2.14.0 is released.  In the
> > | meantime, should we just downgrade r-base and r-base-core to the
> > | testing versions?
> > 
> > Is that an r-cran-* package?  In which case you should file a gentle bug
> > report requesting a rebuild (as the 2.14.0 snapshots are in fact in
> > Debian unstable from where Michael took'em).
> > 
> > I would reinstall bitops into /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ rather than
> > downgrading R, but either way is fine.
> 
> Just to confirm, I was having the same issue using Launchpad to build
> packages for 11.10.  The solution was to rebuild the ones causing the
> error (bitops in the example above) and things work fine.  Could take
> time to find all the problem packages.
> 
> Michael