[R-sig-ME] rBind in lme4

[Paul Johnson]

Sorry, I see my mistake now.  I was warning you about a problem that
you were aware of already.

In the lme4 Git repo, Martin committed a patch that removed the usage
of rBind from formatVC on Mar 22, 2018. I thought you had it still
when I asked.

pj


On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 3:53 PM, Martin Maechler
<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>     on Wed, 9 May 2018 12:22:48 -0500 writes:
>
>     > Dear maintainers: I got a note from CRAN today saying one
>     > of my packages will be removed because it accesses rBind
>     > via lme4.
>
>     > Did you get the same message?
>
> who would "you" be?
>
> Indeed, you *should* have imported it from Matrix rather than
> lme4, and in Matrix it has been documented to be deprecated --
> and you should just use  rbind() instead -- since R version
> 3.2.0 the rBind() "detour" had no longer been necessary.
>
>   > rBind(1,2)
>   [,1]
>   [1,]    1
>   [2,]    2
>   Warning message:
>   'rBind' is deprecated.
>   Since R version 3.2.0, base's rbind() should work fine with S4 objects
>   >
>
> Best,
> Martin
>
>     > Dear maintainer,
>
>     > Please see the problems shown on
>     > <https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_rockchalk.html>.
>
>     > Please correct before 2018-05-23 to safely retain your
>     > package on CRAN.
>
>     > Best, -k
>
>
>
>
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