Jason Bacon <bacon4...@gmail.com> writes: > On 2020-04-25 22:50, Joseph Mingrone wrote: >> Hello all,
>> You are receiving this message because you maintain a port that has a >> run-time dependency on math/R. This is a heads-up that math/R will be >> updated to version 4.0.0. As this is a major version change, R packages >> will also need to be rebuilt. Unless there are some unforeseen >> problems, I will try to do this update tomorrow. I will also do a >> PORTREVISION bump for these dependent ports. Please let me know if this >> is a problem. >> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24572 >> Regards, >> Joseph > Thanks for your work on this! > Do you have any estimate of how many R-cran packages this might break? I've > seen some that are persnickety about R versions and I suspect a new > major version will cause some issues. > Perhaps we can investigate this and head off problems before the new R > version is committed. > Cheers, > JB No rush. We can wait a bit. There could be some run-time breakage [1] . I can do build tests. J. [1] * R now uses a stringsAsFactors = FALSE default, and hence by default no longer converts strings to factors in calls to data.frame() and read.table(). A large number of packages relied on the previous behaviour and so have needed/will need updating.
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