Package: r-base
Version: 3.4.0-1
Severity: normal
With current R, R packages built for Debian before the upload of R
3.3.3.20170413-1
on 14 April that use .C or .Fortran do no work properly, because the functions
calling .C or .Fortran do not find the compiled objects.
Example packages are r-cran-spatial and r-cran-kernsmooth.
An example session in a fresh Debian sid chroot:
> library(spatial)
> example(surf.gls)
srf.gl> library(MASS) # for eqscplot
srf.gl> data(topo, package="MASS")
srf.gl> topo.kr <- surf.gls(2, expcov, topo, d=0.7)
Error in surf.gls(2, expcov, topo, d = 0.7) : object 'VR_frset' not found
The relevant NEWS entry from R is
* Packages which register native routines for .C or .Fortran need
to be re-installed for this version (unless installed with
R-devel SVN revision r72375 or later).
Packages compiled locally can simply be rebuilt using
update.packages(lib.loc="/usr/local/lib/R/site-library", checkBuilt=TRUE)
However the packages provided by Debian packages are installed in a directory
only writable by privileged users.
Cheers,
Johannes
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64
(x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: unable to detect
Versions of packages r-base depends on:
ii r-base-core 3.4.0-1
ii r-recommended 3.4.0-1
Versions of packages r-base recommends:
ii r-base-html 3.4.0-1
ii r-doc-html 3.4.0-1
Versions of packages r-base suggests:
pn ess <none>
pn r-doc-info | r-doc-pdf <none>
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