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In base R, there are lots of environment variables with either prefix 'R_' or '_R_', e.g. R_ENABLE_JIT and _R_RNG_VERSION_. I always considered R_* variables to be "public" and _R_*_ ones being "internal" but realized I don't have a reference for this. Is this true, or is there another reason? Is the difference between the two kinds documented anywhere? Thank you, Henrik

I'm getting ready to submit an update of survival, and is my habit I run the checks on all packages that depend/import/suggest? survival.? I am getting some very odd behaviour wrt non-reproducability.? It came to a head when some things failed on one machine and worked on another.?? I found that the difference was that the failure was using the 3/27 release and the success was still on a

...m on large populations. See PR#17494 for a discussion. The previous method can be requested using RNGkind() or RNGversion() if necessary for reproduction of old results. Thanks to Duncan Murdoch for contributing the patch and Gabe Becker for further assistance." If so, testing with export _R_RNG_VERSION_=3.5.0 might remove/explain those errors. Just a thought Henrik On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 8:16 PM Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel <r-devel at r-project.org> wrote: > > I'm getting ready to submit an update of survival, and is my habit I run the checks on all > packages tha...

G'day all, I have daily scripts running to install the patched version of the current R version and the development version of R on my linux box (Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS). The last development version that was successfully compiled and installed was "R Under development (unstable) (2019-02-25 r76159)" on 26 February. Since then the script always fails as a regression test seems to