BH 1.87.0-1 on CRAN: New Upstream
Boost is a very large and comprehensive set of (peer-reviewed) libraries for the C++ programming language, containing well over one hundred individual libraries. The BH package provides a sizeable subset of header-only libraries for (easier, no linking required) use by R. It is fairly widely used: the (partial) CRAN mirror logs (aggregated from the cloud mirrors) show over 38.5 million package downloads.
Version 1.87.0 of Boost was released last week following the regular Boost release schedule of April, August and December releases. As before, we packaged it almost immediately and started testing following our annual update cycle which strives to balance being close enough to upstream and not stressing CRAN and the user base too much. The reverse depends check revealed six packages requiring changes or adjustments. We opened issue #103 to coordinate the issue (just as we did in previous years). Our sincere thanks to Matt Fidler who fixed two packages pretty much immediately.
As I had not heard back from the other maintainers since filing the issue, I uploaded the package to CRAN suggesting that the coming winter break may be a good opportunity for the four other packages to catch up. CRAN concurred, and 1.87.0-1 is now available there.
There are no other changes apart from cosmetics in the
DESCRIPTION file. For once, we did not add any new Boost libraries. The short NEWS entry
follows.
Changes in version 1.87.0-1 (2024-12-17)
Upgrade to Boost 1.87.0, patched as usual to comment-out diagnostic suppression messages per the request of CRAN
Switched to Authors@R
Via my CRANberries, there
is a diffstat report relative to the previous
release. Comments and suggestions about BH are welcome via the issue
tracker at the GitHub
repo.
This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can now sponsor me at GitHub.
