Hmm. Unfortunately (perhaps) it seems to work for me, with the current
R-patched and with the 0.27 version of SparseM from CRAN, I could
install and also run CMD check w/o error.
(This has the simpler version , setGeneric("as.matrix.csr"), which
would
seem to me to be what you want.)
Could you try again, and send me the SparseM.Rcheck/SparseM-Ex.Rout*
files if it still fails?
Thanks,
John
Roger Koenker wrote:>
> In the last few days I've received couple of messages pointing out
that our SparseM
> package fails to install on the patched version of 1.7.0. Laurent Gaultier
kindly
> suggested that replacing:
>
> setGeneric("as.matrix.csr")
>
> by
>
> setGeneric("as.matrix.csr", function(x, nrow, ncol, eps)
standardGeneric("as.matrix.csr"))
>
> was sufficient to fix the problem. Unfortunately, the story is a bit more
complicated
> than that. After this substitution and some similar ones for a few other
setGeneric()
> calls, the package fails R CMD check in the examples --
> from the end of SparseM.Rcheck-Ex/SparseM.Rout:
>
> > image(as.matrix.csr(A)%*%as.matrix.csr(t(B)))
> Error in str(eps) : Argument "eps" is missing, with no default
> Execution halted
>
> This is the beginning of the function as.matrix.csr. The cat(str(eps)) is
there just
> for debugging purposes, but it is quite mysterious to me how eps can be
considered
> missing with no default. I tried without success to construct a simpler
example of
> this phenomena. I would, as always, be very grateful for any suggestions.
>
> "as.matrix.csr" <-
> function(x, nrow = 1, ncol = 1, eps = .Machine$double.eps){
> cat(str(eps))
> if(is.matrix.csr(x)) {x; return(x)}
> if (!is.matrix(x)) {
> ..........
>
> Roger
>
> PS. While I'm at it I might as well inquire why the def argument of
setGeneric is
> now needed since my reading of the its documentation suggests that it
isn't needed
> in the present circumstances.
>
> url: www.econ.uiuc.edu Roger Koenker Dept. of Economics
UCL,
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