Re: [Rd] Can't build R 3.6.1 or 3.5.3 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Hi, Yes I am aware of it. And yes, I have libicu60 installed. Is it the configure script making a mistake? Best, Saren On 11/22/19 4:12 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 2:58 PM Saren Tasciyan wrote: Hi, I am trying to build a more recent version (3.6.1 or 3.5.3) of R on Ub

Re: [Rd] switch to reference counting in R-devel

> On 24 Nov 2019, at 15:30 , Tierney, Luke wrote: > > Baring any unforeseen issues Freudian slip, if ever I saw one -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd

[Rd] switch to reference counting in R-devel

Baring any unforeseen issues R-devel will switch in about a week from the NAMED mechanism to reference counting for determining when objects can be safely mutated in base C code. This is expected to have minimal impact on packages not using unsupported coding practices in their C code. The transi