This is very exciting news. Luke, thank you for all your work on this - I know it's been a long journey.
All the best, Henrik On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 8:04 AM Tierney, Luke <luke-tier...@uiowa.edu> wrote: > > R-devel has been switched to use reference counting by default with > r77508. Building with -DSWITCH_TO_NAMED goes back to the NAMED > mechanism. > > Best, > > luke > > On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, luke-tier...@uiowa.edu wrote: > > > Baring any unforeseen issues R-devel will switch in about a week from > > the NAMED mechanism to reference counting for determining when objects > > can be safely mutated in base C code. This is expected to have minimal > > impact on packages not using unsupported coding practices in their C > > code. > > > > > > The transition to reference counting has been in progress for a > > number of years. Some older notes on this are available at > > http://developer.r-project.org/Refcnt.html. These may no longer be > > completely accurate but should give you an idea of what is going on. > > > > If you want to test your package under reference counting you can do > > so by building R with -DSWITCH_TO_REFCNT added to CFLAGS or DEFS in a > > config.site file. > > > > A small number of packages are still using the NAMED or SET_NAMED > > functions even though this has been discouraged for some time. > > For now these will not produce errors but also not do anything useful. > > They will probably be removed before R 4.0.0 is released, so you > > should look at why you are using them and adjust accordingly. > > > > Best, > > > > luke > > > > > > > > -- > Luke Tierney > Ralph E. Wareham Professor of Mathematical Sciences > University of Iowa Phone: 319-335-3386 > Department of Statistics and Fax: 319-335-3017 > Actuarial Science > 241 Schaeffer Hall email: luke-tier...@uiowa.edu > Iowa City, IA 52242 WWW: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
