Re: [Rd] shared libraries: missing soname

2016-11-24 Thread Joseph Mingrone
Dirk, Dirk Eddelbuettel writes: > You assume that change == breakage. Yet that assumption is baseless. > Which is what someone like Martin (R Core, and "at it" since the 80s pre-R > and 90s with the almost very beginning of R) and myself (around R since the > late 90s, somewhat involved since t

Re: [Rd] shared libraries: missing soname

2016-11-24 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 24 November 2016 at 22:09, Joseph Mingrone wrote: | For a frequently-updated Debian package repository, I assume you _manually_ bump | all the Debian R packages whenever the main R package is upgraded. Is that | correct? That is, when a Debian user upgrades the r-base package from, say, | ve

Re: [Rd] shared libraries: missing soname

2016-11-24 Thread Joseph Mingrone
Martin Maechler writes: > Well, Dirk has said to have given his last reply on this thread. > I (as a member of R-core) am glad about people like Dirk who > take some of our load and helpfully answer such > questions/reports on R-devel. I am glad too. Thank you. My ultimate goal is to ensure tha

Re: [Rd] [parallel-package] feature request: set default cluster type via environment variable

2016-11-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 24/11/2016 07:30, Christian Krause wrote: Dear all, I’m working as an administrator of a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster which runs on Linux. A lot of people are using R on this Linux cluster and, of course, the *parallel* package to speed up their computations. It has been our co

[Rd] [parallel-package] feature request: set default cluster type via environment variable

2016-11-24 Thread Christian Krause
Dear all, I’m working as an administrator of a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster which runs on Linux. A lot of people are using R on this Linux cluster and, of course, the *parallel* package to speed up their computations. It has been our collective experience, that using |makeForkCluste