Re: [Rd] Is it possible to increase MAX_NUM_DLLS in future R releases?

2016-05-10 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Isn't the problem in Qin's example that unloadNamespace("scde") only unloads 'scde' but none of its package dependencies that were loaded when 'scde' was loaded. For example: $ R --vanilla > ns0 <- loadedNamespaces() > dlls0 <- getLoadedDLLs() > packageDescription("scde")[c("Depends", "Imports")

Re: [Rd] Storage of byte code-compiled functions in sysdata.rda

2016-05-10 Thread Peter Ruckdeschel
Dear Luke, thanks for taking a look at our problem and for checking it out, in particular for sending us the tool function getbc. This really sounds like we have somehow messed up our chain with different versions of the byte-code compiler. We will try and fix this and will let you know if we

Re: [Rd] unloadNamespace problem in 3.3

2016-05-10 Thread Martin Maechler
> Jeroen Ooms > on Tue, 10 May 2016 16:39:08 +0200 writes: > The following used to work in R 3.2.5 but not in 3.3.0: > library(MASS) > ns <-.getNamespace("MASS") > unloadNamespace(ns) or simply ns <- getNamespace("MASS") ; unloadNamespace(ns) yes, indeed.

[Rd] unloadNamespace problem in 3.3

2016-05-10 Thread Jeroen Ooms
The following used to work in R 3.2.5 but not in 3.3.0: library(MASS) ns <-.getNamespace("MASS") unloadNamespace(ns) Calling unloadNamespace("MASS") directly still works. __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo

[Rd] complex NA's match(), etc: not back-compatible change proposal

2016-05-10 Thread Martin Maechler
This is an RFC / announcement related to the 2nd part of PR#16885 https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16885 about complex NA's. The (somewhat rare) incompatibility in R's 3.3.0 match() behavior for the case of complex numbers with NA & NaN's {which has been fixed for R 3.3.0 p

[Rd] recursion problem using do.call(rbind, list(..,,..))

2016-05-10 Thread Martin Maechler
This was originally a bug report about Matrix, https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=294&aid=6325&group_id=61 but the bug is rather a "design" bug in R, or a limitation. This e-mail is a report of the status quo as I see it, and call for comments, sugguests, help/hints for wor