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Quick poll: When would you like CRAN to archive your package? A: Umm, never? B: Three days before posit::conf, where you're giving a talk about said package

11/9/26, 8:35 pm1 repost12 likes

Bryce

@brycemecum.com

11 Sept

h/t to @eddelbuettel.com for messaging me about the removal this morning though!

Antoine Pitrou

@pitrou.net

11 Sept

Perhaps your package wasn't compatible enough with an antiquated version of Solaris?

Bryce

@brycemecum.com

11 Sept

:) If only. Apparently we regex'd too hard for gcc to handle: github.com/apache/arrow....

github.comAddress sanitizer issue in adbcdrivermanager R package · Issue #4638 · apache/arrow-adbcWhat happened? From CRAN: https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/memtests/gcc-ASAN/adbcdrivermanager/00check.log It looks like this is related to std::regex() and perhaps not our code, but perhaps the ...

Kevin Ushey

@kevinushey.bsky.social

11 Sept

Oof. If you can, I'd avoid using std::regex -- I've bumped into a variety of issues over the years, and other libraries for regular expressions are typically in better shape.

Bryce

@brycemecum.com

11 Sept

Thanks Kevin, I appreciate the reply. Do you recommend any particular regex libs? For this bit of code, a simple build matters a lot (having a toml++ dep was even argued over), so maybe doing it without a regex at all would be better.

Antoine Pitrou

@pitrou.net

12 Sept

Hmm, so basically, it's "we found a possible bug in your package so we archived it". 🙄

Bryce

@brycemecum.com

12 Sept

More or less. I can come up with more positive ways to spin it. The compounding issue here is that contacting CRAN for an exception can be hard.