Re: [Rd] [External] Re: Any plans for ALTREP lists (VECSXP)?

2019-07-24 Thread Gabriel Becker
@Kylie happy to collaborate on it if you're interested. ~G On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 10:43 AM Gabriel Becker wrote: > I can work on this. Thanks Luke. > > ~G > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 8:25 AM Tierney, Luke > wrote: > >> If one of you wanted to try to create a patch to support ALTREP >> generic

Re: [Rd] [External] Re: Any plans for ALTREP lists (VECSXP)?

2019-07-24 Thread Gabriel Becker
I can work on this. Thanks Luke. ~G On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 8:25 AM Tierney, Luke wrote: > If one of you wanted to try to create a patch to support ALTREP > generic vectors here are some notes: > > The main challenge I am aware of (there might be others): Allowing > DATAPTR to return a writable

Re: [Rd] [External] Re: Any plans for ALTREP lists (VECSXP)?

2019-07-24 Thread Tierney, Luke
If one of you wanted to try to create a patch to support ALTREP generic vectors here are some notes: The main challenge I am aware of (there might be others): Allowing DATAPTR to return a writable pointer would be too dangerous because the GC write barrier needs to see all mutations. So it would b

Re: [Rd] Writing files with long paths on Windows fails even after enabling long paths

2019-07-24 Thread Tomas Kalibera
Thanks for the note. R uses MAX_PATH internally at a number of places (both directly in Windows specific code and indirectly via PATH_MAX to reflect POSIX) and sometimes uses POSIX functions to access files and directories, so it would be a non-trivial change and would require more Windows-spec

Re: [Rd] Minor typo in R-exts

2019-07-24 Thread Martin Maechler
> Josh O'Brien > on Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:09:09 -0700 writes: > Section 1.1.3 of the "R-exts" manual currently refers to "imports or > importFrom directives" where it means to say "import or importFrom > directives". Results of a diff between R-exts.texi at SVN revision

Re: [Rd] difficulty with sanitizer using bigmemory

2019-07-24 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
The https://builder.r-hub.io/advanced provides an 'R CMD check --as-cran' for 'Debian Linux, R-devel, GCC ASAN/UBSAN'. You can either upload it there or launch it from you local R prompt; > rhub::check() ── Choose build platform ... 10: Debian Linux, R-devel, GCC ASAN/UBSAN (linux-x86_64-rocker-g

[Rd] difficulty with sanitizer using bigmemory

2019-07-24 Thread pete mohanty
Dear all, bigKRLS, which has been on CRAN for a couple of years, had to be pulled recently due to what seems to be a sanitizer issue stemming from its use of bigmemory. bigKRLS works fine (we’ve used it ourselves on many different platforms and have had over 15,000 downloads without an end user re