[R-pkg-team] Bug#1039926: svglite requires rebuild under R 4.3.*

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 29 June 2023 at 10:22, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| Package: r-cran-svglite
| Version: 2.1.1-1
| 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("svglite")
|     [1] ‘2.1.1’

This accidentally omitted

        library(svglite)

The package loads fine, but like the others will not create a graphics device
as it was built under the previous R 4.2.* series.

Dirk

|     > svglite(tempfile())
|     Error in svglite_(filename, bg, width, height, pointsize, standalone,  : 
|       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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| dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

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