CRAN packages calling .Fortran("dqrls")

[Yohan Chalabi]

Thank you for the notification.

Please find a new version of fArma (fArma_2160.78.tar.gz) without the mentioned external .Fortran call.

I have also changed the maintainer email address to comply with the new CRAN policy.

Kind regards,
Yohan

On Sep 17, 2012, at 9:26 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> This also applies to fArma, which buried the problem in a unit test. Now that the entry point has been removed, it gives
> 
>  fArma unit testing - 24 test functions, 1 error, 0 failures
>  ERROR in test.hurstFit: Error in .Fortran("dqrls", qr = t, n = nrx, p = ncx, y = as.matrix(y),  :
>    "dqrls" not available for .Fortran() for package "base"
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: CRAN packages calling .Fortran("dqrls")
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:55:14 +0100
> From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> 
> This concerns CRAN packages
> 
> CNVassoc NBPSeq ade4 anm arm glm2 haplo.stats
> 
> These call .Fortran("dqrls", PACKAGE = "base").  This is no longer used
> by R >=2.15.1 and will be removed shortly.  In any case, the CRAN policy
> 
> 'CRAN packages should use only the public API.  Hence they should not use entry points not declared as API in installed headers nor .Internal() nor .Call() etc calls to base packages. Such usages can cause packages to break at any time, even in patched versions of R.'
> 
> does not allow it.
> 
> Please use the public lm.fit() or lm.wfit() instead.
> 
> We need a corrected update before Sept 28 taking into account any other
> issues shown in the CRAN check logs (via cran.r-project.org/package=name
> for 'name' of your package) or the package will need to be archived.
> 
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