[Rd] A bug in file.copy(), deletes file contents

2019-04-26 Thread Pasi Haapakorva
Hi, I've discovered a way to accidentally delete all your files with file.copy(). This involves copying a directory to itself by bypassing the check `if (recursive && to %in% from)` by pointing to a directory with two differing ways. Here I'm copying the directory foo to itself: dir.create("foo"

[Rd] R 3.6.0 is released

2019-04-26 Thread Peter Dalgaard via R-devel
The build system rolled up R-3.6.0.tar.gz (codename "Planting of a Tree") this morning. The list below details the changes in this release. You can get the source code from http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.6.0.tar.gz or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you. Binari

Re: [Rd] configure script issue with -flto with recent gcc and system ar/ranlib

2019-04-26 Thread Tomas Kalibera
On 4/25/19 6:11 PM, Thomas König wrote: Hi Tomas, On 4/23/19 2:59 PM, Thomas König wrote: Hi, there can be an issue with recent gcc where the system-installed "ar" and "ranlib" commands cannot handle LTO binaries.  On compilation, this manifests itself with error messages claiming that they n

[Rd] Error in glm(..., family=quasi(..., variance=list(...)))

2019-04-26 Thread Wollschlaeger, Daniel
In a glm() call using a quasi() family, one may define a custom variance function in the form of a "list containing components varfun, validmu, dev.resids, initialize and name" (quoting the help page for family). In trying to do so, I run into the following issue that I have not seen discussed