FYI, Brian has backed out the changes to identical() in r59533 of R-patched. Please retry your test codes with the new version. (Due to some ISP mess-up, Brian is temporarily unable to reply in detail himself.)
-pd On Jun 6, 2012, at 20:29 , <luke-tier...@uiowa.edu> <luke-tier...@uiowa.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Matthew Dowle wrote: > >> Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba <at> fhcrc.org> writes: >> >>> >>> I know this has come up before on R-help >>> (http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/7-arguments-passed-to-Internal-identical-which- >> requires-6-td4548460.html) >>> but I have a concise reproducible case that I wanted to share. >>> >>> Also, please note the Bioconductor scenario which is potentially >>> seriously impacted by this. >>> The issue arises when a binary version of a package (like my example >>> package below) is built under R 2.15.0 Patched but then installed >>> under R 2.15.0. Our package AnnotationDbi (which hundreds of other >>> packages depend on) is impacted by this issue to the extent that >>> calling virtually any function in it will return something like this: >>> Error in ls(2) : >>> 7 arguments passed to .Internal(identical) which requires 6 >>> >>> My concern is that when R 2.15.1 is released and Bioconductor starts >>> building all its packages under it, that R 2.15.0 users will start to >>> experience this problem. We can ask all users to upgrade to R 2.15.1 >>> if we have to, but it's not usually the case that a minor point >>> release MUST be installed in order to run packages built under it >>> (please correct me if I'm wrong). We would much prefer a workaround or >>> fix to make an upgrade unnecessary. >>> >> >> I'm seeing the same issue. Installing the latest R-Forge .zip of data.table >> built using 2.15.0 patched, on R 2.15.0 (or 2.14.1 same issue), then running >> data.table(a=1:3) produces the "7 arguments passed to .Internal(identical) >> which requires 6" error. traceback() and debugger() just display the top >> level >> call. debug(data.table) and stepping through reveals it is a call to >> identical >> () but just a regular one. No .Internal() call in the package, let alone >> passing 6 or 7 arguments to .Internal. >> >> Not sure how else to debug or trace it. R-Forge is byte compiling data.table >> using R 2.15.0 patched (iiuc), would that make a difference when the byte >> code >> is loaded into 2.15.0 which doesn't have the new argument in identical()? > > Yes it would. > > luke > >> >> Matthew >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > -- > Luke Tierney > Chair, Statistics and Actuarial Science > Ralph E. Wareham Professor of Mathematical Sciences > University of Iowa Phone: 319-335-3386 > Department of Statistics and Fax: 319-335-3017 > Actuarial Science > 241 Schaeffer Hall email: luke-tier...@uiowa.edu > Iowa City, IA 52242 WWW: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
