I built R-trunk (rev 59537), ran 'Rtrunk CMD build data.table', installed the resulting tar.gz into R release and it ran tests ok. So it seems ok now, if that tested it right. Will check R-Forge again when it catches up. Thanks. Matthew
On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 22:04 +0200, peter dalgaard wrote: > 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 > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
