[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

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

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] 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] [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] [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 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