[R-pkg-team] Bug#1039953: tikzDevice requires rebuild under R 4.3.*

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Package: r-cran-tikzdevice
Version: 0.12.4-1
Severity: normal

R 4.3.0 brought (once again) a new graphics API which requires a rebuild for
functionality that involves creating graphics device.  Once rebuilt the
following will again work:

    > getRversion()
    [1] ‘4.3.1’
    > packageVersion("tikzDevice")
    [1] ‘0.12.4’
    > library(tikzDevice)
    Warning message:
    In fun(libname, pkgname) : 
    
    tikzDevice: No appropriate LaTeX compiler could be found.
    Access to LaTeX is required in order for the TikZ device
    to produce output.

    [... rest of warnings omitted; I ran this in a container without latex ...]
    > tikz(tempfile())
    Error in tikz(tempfile()) : Graphics API version mismatch
    >

R Core decided again not to call this a breaking change, and I concur. We may
want to look into a graphics api tag for the next release. For now, a simple
rebuild should do.

Thanks, Dirk


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