[Rd] error unserializing ascii format (v2 or v3)

I ran into an interesting error unserializing a file created with ascii=TRUE: R 3.5.1 (Windows or Linux): > unserialize(serialize(list(raw=as.raw(c(39,41))), NULL, version=2, ascii=TRUE)) Error in unserialize(serialize(list(raw = as.raw(c(39, 41))), NULL, version = 2, : ReadItem: un

[Rd] Problem building rmarkdown vignettes with child

Hello, This is a problem I posted about already some time ago: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2018-September/076786.html Finally, I did had some time to create a minimal package to reproduce the problem that vignettes with child can not be build. https://github.com/wolski/RmarkdownVignett

[Rd] Checksums of packages change on CRAN without change in version number

Dear all, I report the same problem again, as one of our sysadmins at the university ran into the same issue again. Every so often they find an in-place update of an R package which almost always amounts to a small change in the DESCRIPTION file. This does cause the checksums to change, and we end