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2015 Jul 03
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Are downstream dependencies rebuilt when a package is updated on CRAN?
...broken combination of
pkgA and pkgB on CRAN. (Note that source packages aren't vulnerable to
this problem)
This is not a purely academic exercise -- something similar to this
has actually occurred. When R went from version 3.0.0 to 3.0.1, there
was a new function in the methods package named .setDummyField, and
reference class objects that were built against methods 3.0.1 received
closures that included calls to .setDummyField(). If these refclass
objects were saved in a package at build-time, then they would not
work on systems with R (and methods) 3.0.0. Because CRAN built
binaries on R 3.0.1 after...