Dear Luke,
On Thu, 16 Apr 2026 at 21:43, luke-tierney--- via R-devel
<r-devel at r-project.org> wrote:>
> The installed C header files for R 4.6.0 should now correspond to the
> C API as defined by the Writing R Extensions manual: All entry points
> and variables declared in the headers are now part of the API. This
> helps clarify the interface available to package developers, and
> provides the encapsulation needed to allow improvements to internals
> of R without impacting packages. Many thanks to package developers who
> helped in developing new API features to make this possible and who
> worked on moving away from using non-API features.
>
> A small number of packages with significant reverse dependencies have
> not yet completed the transition. CRAN will be hosting transitional
> versions for these until their maintainers submit updates.
Does this mean that these packages will now fail instead of generating a NOTE?
Best,
I?aki
>
> Best,
>
> luke
>
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