[Rd] Mac and Windows binaries of rJava broken for R-devel?

[Hervé Pagès]

On 10/19/2012 10:02 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> Thanks for letting me know.
> Currently the ./2.16 Window binary tree on CRAN is still a link to
> ./2.15. We will work to get binaries up within a week.

Sounds good. Thanks!  H.

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> Uwe Ligges
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> On 19.10.2012 07:52, Hervé Pagès wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> Here is a problem we see with the Mac and Windows binaries of
>> rJava (0.9-3) currently available on CRAN for R-devel (i.e. under
>> bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.16/ and bin/windows/contrib/2.16/):
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>>    > library(rJava)
>>    > .jinit("gaggle/inst/jars/gaggleRShell.jar")
>>    Error in .Call("R_do_new_object", ClassDef, PACKAGE = "base") :
>>      "R_do_new_object" not available for .Call() for package "base"
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>> The same code works fine with R-devel on Linux and the same version
>> of rJava, or with R-2.15 on all platforms and the same version of
>> rJava (Mac or Windows binaries installed from CRAN).
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>> The binaries currently available on CRAN for R-devel seem to predate
>> some important changes in R-devel with respect to the exposure of
>> some .Call entry points. Could it be that those binaries just need
>> to be rebuilt with a more recent version of R-devel?
>>
>> FWIW, we have a few packages in the development version of Bioconductor
>> that are affected by this issue.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> H.
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>>  > sessionInfo()
>> R Under development (unstable) (2012-10-17 r60955)
>> Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)
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>> locale:
>> [1] en_US/en_US/en_US/C/en_US/en_US
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] rJava_0.9-3
>>

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Hervé Pagès

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