Agreed. Now is as good a time as any to send many, many thanks are due to Luke, Martin, Uwe, Duncan, the redoubtable Professor B. and the entire R-Core team for their seemingly countless hours of toil keeping R not only afloat but healthy and vibrant. Your work is deeply appreciated, even if it isn’t expressed often enough.
Thank you again! Avi On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 1:11 PM Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is very exciting news. Luke, thank you for all your work on this > - I know it's been a long journey. > > All the best, > > Henrik > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 8:04 AM Tierney, Luke <luke-tier...@uiowa.edu> > wrote: > > > > R-devel has been switched to use reference counting by default with > > r77508. Building with -DSWITCH_TO_NAMED goes back to the NAMED > > mechanism. > > > > Best, > > > > luke > > > > On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, luke-tier...@uiowa.edu wrote: > > > > > Baring any unforeseen issues R-devel will switch in about a week from > > > the NAMED mechanism to reference counting for determining when objects > > > can be safely mutated in base C code. This is expected to have minimal > > > impact on packages not using unsupported coding practices in their C > > > code. > > > > > > > > > The transition to reference counting has been in progress for a > > > number of years. Some older notes on this are available at > > > http://developer.r-project.org/Refcnt.html. These may no longer be > > > completely accurate but should give you an idea of what is going on. > > > > > > If you want to test your package under reference counting you can do > > > so by building R with -DSWITCH_TO_REFCNT added to CFLAGS or DEFS in a > > > config.site file. > > > > > > A small number of packages are still using the NAMED or SET_NAMED > > > functions even though this has been discouraged for some time. > > > For now these will not produce errors but also not do anything useful. > > > They will probably be removed before R 4.0.0 is released, so you > > > should look at why you are using them and adjust accordingly. > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > luke > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Luke Tierney > > 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 > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
