[Rd] R-3.1.0 OSX Snow Leopard installs old binary

Simon Urbanek simon.urbanek at r-project.org
Fri Apr 18 03:07:48 CEST 2014


On Apr 17, 2014, at 7:42 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 17, 2014, at 9:30 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All, I am not sure why this happens, but apparently an old binary is
> > installed by default. Downloading and installing the new binary by hand
> > works fine.
> >
> 
> I think you may be misinterpreting - the is no binary for igraph 0.7 because it fails make check,
> 
> Btw. it fails R CMD check (there is no make check afaik) because it suggests a BioC package (graph), that is not available. Can CRAN packages not depend on BioC packages any more?
> 

No, the issue is that igraph suggests graph yet fails when it's not present. It should guard against failure is case it's not available. I didn't look at this particular case, but sometimes that is necessary to break infinite dependency loops.

Cheers,
Simon



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