I don't know if this is a bug, but it is certainly weird. AFAICT R 4.4.0 has Matrix 1.7-0.
However, currently CRAN has Package: Matrix Version: 1.6-5 Priority: recommended Depends: R (>= 3.5.0), methods ... (plus another version for R >= 4.5.0 only). Which has some weird consequences, e.g. if I have an R 4.4.0 installation without the recommended packages, I don't have a way of installing Matrix 1.7-0. Whereas R 4.4.0 installations with recommended packages come with Matrix 1.7-0. Gabor ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel