next time we submit to CRAN

[stephaniereinders]

When the next version is submitted to CRAN we need to let James Taylor know so that he can send CRAN an email giving his permission to remove him as the owner of handwriter.

Also, James made the changes to the handwriter repo necessary for Armadillo (see his email below) but the changes have not been pushed to CRAN yet.

From: James Taylor
Date: Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 6:53 AM
To: Reinders, Stephanie [CSAFE]
Subject: Fwd: Armadillo deprecation warning with CRAN Packages finity grove handwriter HARModel minimaxdesign MRS smog SparseFactorAnalysis specs UComp

Hi Stephanie,

Thought I'd bring this to your attention. This change is actually made properly in handwriter, just a new version has never been pushed to CRAN.
The people at CRAN said that when someone wants to push a new version I just need to basically send an email okaying the change in ownership to a new email address so just let me know.

Hope you had a (somewhat) restful winter break,
James

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 at 13:06
Subject: Armadillo deprecation warning with CRAN Packages finity grove handwriter HARModel minimaxdesign MRS smog SparseFactorAnalysis specs UComp
To:
Cc:

Dear fellow maintainers,

In late August and early September I wrote to the twenty-five maintainers of
packages affected by a change in upstream Armadillo which marks an (old)
version of initialization as 'deprecated'. As I wrote to you then, "for now"
the warning would be suppressed in RcppArmadillo. Details are at

RcppCore/RcppArmadillo#391

I also prepared twenty-five patches and/or pull requests for all these
packages. By now, fourteen packages have been updated at CRAN, and one has
been removed from CRAN leaving ten packages in need of work.

This leaves ten packages in need of change.

You maintain one of these packages. As I plan to update RcppArmadillo to the
current version 0.11.4.3.0 (based on upstream release 11.4.3), you will
likely hear from CRAN requesting a change in your package. Having had this
issue open since early September (for the last PRs), I hope sufficient time
has been made available to make the (generally small) change of accepting a
PR or patch.

I am planning to release the current RcppArmadillo version to CRAN in about a
week. I hope I can count on your cooperation here. If you have questions
please do not hesiate to reach out (via reply here, or DM, or on the issue
ticket at RcppCore/RcppArmadillo#391).

Cheers, Dirk

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dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]

[stephaniereinders]

New version of handwriter released on CRAN