Current CRAN failures and potential removal

[topepo]

We've received:

Dear maintainers,

This concerns the CRAN packages

BayesPostEst IRexamples bayesrules brada eefAnalytics evidence fbst
jmBIG rstanarm tidyposterior webSDM

maintained by one of you:

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We have asked for an update fixing the check problems shown at https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_rstanarm.html&source=gmail-imap&ust=1696482614000000&usg=AOvVaw2ETYP7D0zxfNXQys5qDI7v with no update from the maintainer thus far.

Thus, package rstanarm is now scheduled for archival on 2023-10-12, and archiving this will necessitate also archiving its CRAN strong reverse dependencies.

Please negotiate the necessary actions.

The CRAN Team

One issue is "Check: for GNU extensions in Makefiles " and another is related to compiler issues (?). There is also a check specific to M1 macs.

Is there anything that we can do? If you need mac hardware to test, I can run things for you.

It would be good to know if fixes are in progress.

[andrjohns]

@bgoodri Failure is occurring when the tests call expose_stan_functions.

The Rcpp plugin in rstan needs to update the boost flag here to -D_HAS_AUTO_PTR_ETC=0.

If you get these warnings from CRAN please consider opening an issue or posting in the slack if you don't have time to investigate/resolve them

[topepo]

How is this going? Anything that we can do to help?

[bgoodri]

rstan 2.32 is going to CRAN today, which will fix the test failures with clang++16