On 2025-03-31 12:41 p.m., Josiah Parry wrote:> Duncan, the changes to symbols checking was introduced March 22nd see 
> https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18789 
> <https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18789> and 
>
https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2025/03/22#n2025-03-22
<https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2025/03/22#n2025-03-22>.
But that is unrelated.
Sorry, I missed that.
> 
> To Tim's comment?the check is a simple grep of the installation?log for
> "Downloading crates." This could be easily circumvented on CRAN
and
> locally by suppressing stdout/err. But that would be adversarial and I 
> would like to adhere to the intent of the check.
I think Tim was suggesting that you modify your Github action to ignore 
this particular warning.  The warning would still appear, but it 
wouldn't cause a check failure.
Duncan Murdoch
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 9:23?AM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at
gmail.com
> <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2025-03-31 11:50 a.m., Josiah Parry wrote:
>      > Following up with this as I address the new R-devel
"Compiled code
>      > should not call entry points which might terminate R"
WARNING and
>     this
>      > issue has reared its head again.
>      >
>      > Would a path forward be an environment variable similar
>      > to?_R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_ to skip this check primarily for
GitHub
>      > Actions and CI?
> 
>     The "Compiled code should not call entry points which might
>     terminate R"
>     isn't a new warning.? I think the last change to it was made in
2022.
> 
>     Maybe your code, or code in one of the libraries you use, has changed?
> 
>     Duncan Murdoch
> 
> 
> 
> 
>      >
>      > Or, alternatively, if this could be a NOTE when the `--as-cran`
flag
>      > isn't set but a WARNING when it is?
>      >
>      > Re-vendoring dependencies each time they are changed during the
>      > development lifecycle is quite a bit. However, vendoring once
>     prior to
>      > publishing makes good sense.
>      >
>      > Is there a balance we can strike here to lower development
>     friction but
>      > also ensure the robust package installation requirements when
>     expected?
>      >
>      > Using
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 11:42?AM Duncan Murdoch
>     <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.duncan at
gmail.com>
>      > <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
>     <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >? ? ?On 2025-03-02 1:09 p.m., Ben Bolker wrote:
>      >? ? ? >? ? I, like Duncan, am just following along here. I
think there
>      >? ? ?might be
>      >? ? ? > two distinct questions which it would be useful to keep
>     distinct:
>      >? ? ? >
>      >? ? ? >? ? * how to silence the rust-check if desired?
>      >? ? ? >
>      >? ? ? >? ? ?rather than debating whether the rust-check should
be
>     always-on,
>      >? ? ? > on-for-CRAN-only, etc., would it provide for useful
>     flexibility
>      >? ? ?to add
>      >? ? ? > an environment variable that enables/disables this
>      >? ? ?functionality?? There
>      >? ? ? > are already 168 of these environment variables, how
much would
>      >? ? ?one more
>      >? ? ? > cost?
>      >
>      >? ? ?I may have misunderstood Josiah.? I thought his message said
>     that it is
>      >? ? ?already easy to silence the check, by stopping the code from
>     issuing
>      >? ? ?the
>      >? ? ?message the check is looking for.
>      >
>      >? ? ?Presumably the package shouldn't do that, but if
there's an
>     environment
>      >? ? ?variable that can be set to do it, then the repository or
>     user can
>      >? ? ?choose to do it, so there's no need for R to add another
>     environment
>      >? ? ?variable.
>      >
>      >? ? ?BTW, as far as I can see current R-devel doesn't issue an
>     error, it
>      >? ? ?just
>      >? ? ?issues warnings about two issues:
>      >
>      >? ? ? ? - the package is downloading crates
>      >? ? ? ? - the rustc compiler doesn't report a version number
>      >
>      >? ? ?Duncan Murdoch
>      >
>      >? ? ? >
>      >? ? ? >? ? ?I'm not sure how adding an environment variable
to
>     allow easier
>      >? ? ? > user/alternate-repository control of the check is
"against the
>      >? ? ?spirit of
>      >? ? ? > the check" ...
>      >? ? ? >
>      >? ? ? >? ? ?All the existing check-regulating env variables ...
>      >? ? ? >
>      >? ? ? > cd src/library/tools/R
>      >? ? ? > grep 'Sys.getenv("_R_CHECK' * | sed -e
>     's/^.*Sys.getenv(//' | sed -e
>      >? ? ? > 's/[,)].*//' | sort | uniq | wc
>      >? ? ? >
>      >? ? ? >
>      >? ? ? >? ? ?* should CRAN allow Rust crates to be downloaded?
>      >? ? ? >
>      >? ? ? >? ? ?This is a much more fundamental policy decision,
which
>     I have no
>      >? ? ? > opinion about.
>      >? ? ? >
>      >? ? ? >? ? ?cheers
>      >? ? ? >? ? ? Ben Bolker
>      >? ? ? >
>      >? ? ? >
>      >? ? ? >
>      >? ? ? >
>      >? ? ? > On 2025-03-02 12:21 p.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>      >? ? ? >> On 2025-03-02 11:03 a.m., Josiah Parry wrote:
>      >? ? ? >>> Well this has surely veered off course!
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>> As the one who filed the BugZilla report,
I'd like to
>     redirect the
>      >? ? ? >>> conversation and provide further context.
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>> The question should?be /"how do we get a
dialogue
>     started on this
>      >? ? ? >>> bugzilla issue before the next minor /
>      >? ? ? >>> /release of R?"/
>      >? ? ? >>
>      >? ? ? >> Isn't this exactly that dialogue?
>      >? ? ? >>
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>> The current check for Rust-based R
package's downloading
>     external
>      >? ? ? >>> dependencies works by looking at
>      >? ? ? >>> the output logs for the presence of?
"Downloading
>     crates." This
>      >? ? ?can is
>      >? ? ? >>> an entirely fine requirement for
>      >? ? ? >>> CRAN?however, due to the fact that it is an
error, packages
>      >? ? ? >>> distributed through other repositories
>      >? ? ? >>> fail the R-CMD check.
>      >? ? ? >>
>      >? ? ? >> I think you misunderstood me.? CRAN shares the view
I
>     gave that you
>      >? ? ? >> should be able to run old code to reproduce old
results, but
>      >? ? ?they aren't
>      >? ? ? >> the only ones.? That's always been a goal of R.
>      >? ? ? >>
>      >? ? ? >>> Folks who use R-universe or PPM or some
mysterious third
>     thing
>      >? ? ?may not
>      >? ? ? >>> share the same philosophy as
>      >? ? ? >>> CRAN and prefer the convenience of fetching the
>     dependencies at
>      >? ? ? >>> compile time and not vendoring them.
>      >? ? ? >>> An alternative would be for the check to be
optionally
>     skipped or
>      >? ? ? >>> become a NOTE when the CRAN
>      >? ? ? >>> flag is not set and an ERROR otherwise.
Skipping this CRAN
>      >? ? ?check is as
>      >? ? ? >>> easy as adding `--quiet`
>      >? ? ? >>> or setting an environment variable?but that is
against the
>      >? ? ?spirit of
>      >? ? ? >>> the check.
>      >? ? ? >>
>      >? ? ? >> If it is that easy to skip the check, then I really
don't see
>      >? ? ?the issue.
>      >? ? ? >>? ??Just ask the repository where you want to put
your
>     package to
>      >? ? ?put that
>      >? ? ? >> option or environment variable in place, and
there's no
>     longer a
>      >? ? ?problem.
>      >? ? ? >>
>      >? ? ? >> Duncan Murdoch
>      >? ? ? >>
>      >? ? ? >>> Ideally, the check can remain, but scoped
appropriately.
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>> On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 6:49?AM Duncan Murdoch
>      >? ? ? >>> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
>     <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> <mailto:murdoch.duncan at
gmail.com
>     <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>>
>      >? ? ?<mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
>     <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> <mailto:murdoch.duncan at
gmail.com
>     <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>>>>
>      >? ? ?wrote:
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? You seem to be taking a confontational
tone, which
>     isn't
>      >? ? ?likely to
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? encourage a reasonable dialogue.
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? I've looked for other messages on
this, and didn't
>     see any
>      >? ? ?besides
>      >? ? ? >>> this
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? one explaining why including check_rust()
in the
>     checks is
>      >? ? ?a problem.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? The problem you talk about here is that it
encourages
>      >? ? ?vendoring,
>      >? ? ? >>> which
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? makes it harder for package authors to
count downloads.
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? To be honest, that doesn't seem like a
very serious
>      >? ? ?problem.? I
>      >? ? ? >>> assume
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? the packages ("crates") we are
talking about are open
>      >? ? ?source, so
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? this is
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? entirely in the spirit of how they are
allowed to be
>      >? ? ?distributed.
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? If they aren't open source, then users
of those
>     packages
>      >? ? ?should be
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? warned about that, and a check failure is
a good
>     way to do
>      >? ? ?that.
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? So you need to explain why it is important
to be
>     able to
>      >? ? ?download and
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? install software and not be warned about
it.
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? I am not in R Core or CRAN, but I can
suggest why it is
>      >? ? ?better to
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? include source in the package:? it makes
the use of
>     that
>      >? ? ?package more
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? reliable in the future.? It's not
uncommon to run an R
>      >? ? ?computation
>      >? ? ? >>> that
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? was written a few years ago.? Sometimes
libraries or R
>      >? ? ?have changed,
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? and
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? a user will need to go back to a previous
version to
>      >? ? ?reproduce the
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? calculation.? Being able to able to
rebuild a
>     system as it
>      >? ? ?would have
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? been back then is important.
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? Is that possible if the package needs to
make a
>     download?? The
>      >? ? ? >>> download
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? site that worked a few years ago may no
longer
>     exist.? If
>      >? ? ?the site
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? exists, the code versions there may be
different.
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? Those are some of the issues that Simon
was
>     alluding to.
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? Duncan Murdoch
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? On 2025-03-02 5:45 a.m., Mossa Merhi
Reimert via
>     R-devel
>      >? ? ?wrote:
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > Dear Simon Urbanek,
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > There has been very little
engagement with the
>     issue I
>      >? ? ?referred
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? to. If it was decided that this ?check?
ought to be
>     part
>      >? ? ?of the
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? default checks for R,
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > then that could have been written to
us. Either
>     on the
>      >? ? ? >>> bugs.r-project.org
<http://bugs.r-project.org>
>     <http://bugs.r-project.org <http://bugs.r-project.org>>
>      >? ? ?<http://bugs.r-project.org
<http://bugs.r-project.org>
>     <http://bugs.r-project.org <http://bugs.r-project.org>>>
or the proposed
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? patch. Before we talk about anything else,
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > it does seem very strange that we
cannot get a
>     reasonable
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? dialogue going.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > I would like to say that the R/Rust
community
>     has grown
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? substantially. From my end, there are 3
bindings
>     project,
>      >? ? ?extendr,
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? savvy, and roxido.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > Then, there are now many rust-based
packages on
>     CRAN,
>      >? ? ?see this
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? most recent compiled list
>      > https://github.com/nanxstats/r-rust-pkgs
>     <https://github.com/nanxstats/r-rust-pkgs>
>      >? ? ?<https://github.com/nanxstats/r-rust-pkgs
>     <https://github.com/nanxstats/r-rust-pkgs>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???
<https://github.com/nanxstats/r-rust-pkgs
>     <https://github.com/nanxstats/r-rust-pkgs>
>      >? ? ?<https://github.com/nanxstats/r-rust-pkgs
>     <https://github.com/nanxstats/r-rust-pkgs>>>.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > There is also proof-of-concept
>      >? ? ? >>> https://github.com/r-rust/hellorust
>     <https://github.com/r-rust/hellorust>
>      >? ? ?<https://github.com/r-rust/hellorust
>     <https://github.com/r-rust/hellorust>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? <https://github.com/r-rust/hellorust
>     <https://github.com/r-rust/hellorust>
>      >? ? ?<https://github.com/r-rust/hellorust
>     <https://github.com/r-rust/hellorust>>> that integrates
`cargo`,
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? rust?s official build system, with R?s
package
>     build system,
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > and
https://github.com/extendr/hellorustc
>     <https://github.com/extendr/hellorustc>
>      >? ? ?<https://github.com/extendr/hellorustc
>     <https://github.com/extendr/hellorustc>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? <https://github.com/extendr/hellorustc
>     <https://github.com/extendr/hellorustc>
>      >? ? ?<https://github.com/extendr/hellorustc
>     <https://github.com/extendr/hellorustc>>>, which showcases
how Rust
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? compiler could be directly linked with R?s
package
>     system.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >? ?Let me say, that the current R CMD
check is
>     not meant
>      >? ? ?to be
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? ?helpful?. When a package is built,
`cargo` tells
>     the user
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? ?Downloading crates?.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > Thus, this information is already
conveyed to
>     the user.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > Personally, I do wish we could
debate this
>     requirement
>      >? ? ?further. I
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? do not believe that having R-packages on
CRAN
>     vendor rust
>      >? ? ? >>> dependencies
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > as a good policy. Download
statistics is a success
>      >? ? ?metric of a
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? given r-package and rust packages. By
insisting on
>      >? ? ?vendoring, and
>      >? ? ? >>> thus
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > side-stepping `cargo` / crates.io
>     <http://crates.io> <http://crates.io
<http://crates.io>>
>      >? ? ?<http://crates.io <http://crates.io>
<http://crates.io
>     <http://crates.io>>>, we are
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? robbing upstream authors of their
download-numbers.
>     I do
>      >? ? ?not think
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? such policy is honourable.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > While C/C++ do not have official
package
>     repositories,
>      >? ? ?it could
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? be thought of, as fair game, to have CRAN
act as a
>     pseudo
>      >? ? ?package
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? manager for C/C++ libraries.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > I?m not going to argue for or
against this part.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > There are many objections from the
CRAN side to
>     all things
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? related to Rust. I don?t want to open
multiple
>     topics in
>      >? ? ?the same
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? thread.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > But there is plenty to bring up. And
I had hoped we
>      >? ? ?could talk
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? this little issue through, before
embarking on a larger
>      >? ? ?discussion.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > I do not appreciate the ?random
demands? comment, as
>      >? ? ?this is not
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? a demand, nor is it random.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > I have inquired my end of the
community for
>     suggestions
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > to compile a larger proposal, but
then I was afraid
>      >? ? ?that this
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? would be perceived as a big, bulky demand.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > Rust is not C/C++/Java, and the
support for Rust
>     cannot
>      >? ? ?look like
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? the support for these languages.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > From: Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek at R-project.org>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > Date: Sunday, 2 March 2025 at 00.39
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > To: Mossa Merhi Reimert <mossa at
sund.ku.dk
>     <mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk>
>      >? ? ?<mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk <mailto:mossa at
sund.ku.dk>>
>      >? ? ? >>> <mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk <mailto:mossa
at sund.ku.dk>
>     <mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk <mailto:mossa at
sund.ku.dk>>>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
>     <mailto:r-devel at r-project.org>
>      >? ? ?<mailto:r-devel at r-project.org <mailto:r-devel at
r-project.org>>
>     <mailto:r-devel at r-project.org <mailto:r-devel at
r-project.org>
>      >? ? ?<mailto:r-devel at r-project.org <mailto:r-devel at
r-project.org>>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? <r-devel at r-project.org
>     <mailto:r-devel at r-project.org> <mailto:r-devel at
r-project.org
>     <mailto:r-devel at r-project.org>>
>      >? ? ?<mailto:r-devel at r-project.org <mailto:r-devel at
r-project.org>
>     <mailto:r-devel at r-project.org <mailto:r-devel at
r-project.org>>>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > Subject: Re: [Rd] R CMD check and
CRAN's Rust policy
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > [Du f?r ikke ofte mails fra
>     simon.urbanek at r-project.org <mailto:simon.urbanek at
r-project.org>
>      >? ? ?<mailto:simon.urbanek at r-project.org
>     <mailto:simon.urbanek at r-project.org>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? <mailto:simon.urbanek at r-project.org
>     <mailto:simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
>      >? ? ?<mailto:simon.urbanek at r-project.org
>     <mailto:simon.urbanek at r-project.org>>>. F? mere at vide
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>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > Mossa,
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > the issue you cite is lacking any
pertinent
>     information
>      >? ? ?and it's
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? not even clear why it should be an issue.
The check is
>      >? ? ?perfectly
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? justified, it just reports whether a
package using rust
>      >? ? ?declares
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? this correctly and where it downloads 3rd
party
>     content -
>      >? ? ?something
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? that is important to R users in general
and not
>     related to
>      >? ? ?CRAN. I
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? don't see how any of this is
"prohibitive" it just
>     calls
>      >? ? ?out what
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? the package is already doing.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > As discussed before, my hope was
that the "R"ust
>      >? ? ?community will
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? mature enough to work on proper support.
It is not
>     clear
>      >? ? ?that it
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? happened yet, but once it does it would
make sense
>     to talk
>      >? ? ?about
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? support just as we have for C, C++ and
Java, so
>     certainly that
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? should be the right discussion. However,
it will
>     have to
>      >? ? ?start with
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? some thinking and a proposal on how the
associated
>     issues
>      >? ? ?(compiler
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? support, versioning, dependency sources
etc.) are to be
>      >? ? ?addressed,
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? as opposed to making random demands. All
this has
>     nothing
>      >? ? ?to do with
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? CRAN so the issue you mention seems
irrelevant to the
>      >? ? ?progress. Also
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? I'd like to know what are the
"challenges embedded in R
>      >? ? ?itself".
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > Cheers,
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? > Simon
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> On Mar 2, 2025, at 8:45 AM,
Mossa Merhi Reimert via
>      >? ? ?R-devel
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? <r-devel at r-project.org
>     <mailto:r-devel at r-project.org> <mailto:r-devel at
r-project.org
>     <mailto:r-devel at r-project.org>>
>      >? ? ?<mailto:r-devel at r-project.org <mailto:r-devel at
r-project.org>
>     <mailto:r-devel at r-project.org <mailto:r-devel at
r-project.org>>>> wrote:
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> Hello everyone!
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> I'm Mossa, I'm one of
the maintainers of
>     extendr, an
>      >? ? ?automated
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? generation of bindings project for
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> Rust code, for use in
R-packages.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> I'm writing to you, as R
4.4.3 was just
>     released, and
>      >? ? ?there have
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? not been
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> follow-up on an issue important
to us. Link to the
>      >? ? ?issue as
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? discussed on r-devel
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >>
>      > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2024-October/083666.html
>     <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2024-October/083666.html>
>      >   
>      ?<https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2024-October/083666.html
>    
<https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2024-October/083666.html>>
>      >? ? ? >>>
>      >   
>      ?<https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2024-October/083666.html
>     <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2024-October/083666.html>
>      >   
>      ?<https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2024-October/083666.html
>    
<https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2024-October/083666.html>>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> A community member has provided
a suggestion to a
>      >? ? ?patch here
>      >? ? ? >>> https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/pull/182
>     <https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/pull/182>
>      >? ? ?<https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/pull/182
>     <https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/pull/182>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???
<https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/pull/182
>     <https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/pull/182>
>      >? ? ?<https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/pull/182
>     <https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/pull/182>>>, and we have
also
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? attempted to bring it up on
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> Bugzilla:
>      > https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18806
>     <https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18806>
>      >? ? ?<https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18806
>     <https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18806>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???
<https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18806
>     <https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18806>
>      >? ? ?<https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18806
>     <https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18806>>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> TLDR: Default `R CMD check` uses
additional
>      >? ? ?CRAN-specific checks
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? for Rust,
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> instead of keeping this behind
the --as-cran flag.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> I would like to say, that there
is a growing
>     interest
>      >? ? ?in Rust
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? within the R community.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> And generally, Rust becoming a
widely adopted
>     language
>      >? ? ?within
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? the Python community (including the
scientific part
>     of that
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? community). It is time to deal with the
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> pain points with using Rust in
R.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> Therefore, I would kindly ask
that we have a
>     dialogue
>      >? ? ?on how to
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? remedy the issue above first, and how we
may deal with
>      >? ? ?other issues
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? going forward. There are both challenges
embedded in R
>      >? ? ?itself, and
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? the current CRAN policy for Rust is
prohibitive.
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> Mossa Merhi Reimert
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> Postdoctoral Researcher
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> K?benhavns Universitet
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> Department of Veterinary and
Animal Sciences
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> Animal Welfare and Disease
Control
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> Gr?nneg?rdsvej 8
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> 1870 Frederiksberg C
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> Denmark
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> +45 35324135
>      >? ? ? >>>? ???? >> mossa at sund.ku.dk
<mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk>
>     <mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk <mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? <mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk
<mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk>
>      >? ? ?<mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk
>     <mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk>>><mailto:mossa at
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>     <mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk>
>      >? ? ?<mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk <mailto:mossa at
sund.ku.dk>>
>      >? ? ? >>>? ??? <mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk
<mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk>
>     <mailto:mossa at sund.ku.dk <mailto:mossa at
sund.ku.dk>>>>
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