[R-sig-ME] rBind in lme4

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Paul Johnson 
>>>>>     on Mon, 14 May 2018 01:36:53 -0500 writes:

    > 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

aah.. I now understand ... and I apologize for my "not very tender"
answer.

Best, Martin

    > 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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    >> Center > for Research Methods and Data Analysis
    >> http://crmda.ku.edu
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    >> at > ku.edu.
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