It's this time of year again, and the bi-annual
GNU R release brings in a wider than
usual
list of
changes as indicated by the new major release version 2.0.0. One change
in particular, lazy loading, promises to be most useful, if only for faster
startup times.. Unfortunately, the internal code changes also triggered two
ugly bugs that seemed to appear only in the pbuilder chroot builds I
made. After a couple of frustrating days spent trying different things, Brian
Ripley kindly supplied a patch earlier today. This allows us build R, and the
core 'recommended' packages, in the chroot environment used by the Debian
autobuilders.
So after some further testing, packages of R 2.0.0 are now on the Debian
servers and should be in unstable tomorrow. Because of the new internal
interface to R packages, older packages will not load. Users can either call
update.packages() directly, or wait a few days until we (as in
Chris, Doug, Rafael, Steffen and myself) get the various
r-(cran|bioc|omegahat|other|noncran)-* packages rebuilt under 2.0.0. We will
try our best to have them all updated by Sunday.
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