Before you report a bug
Before you report a bug in CXXR, please follow these steps:
- Verify that you are using the latest release
of CXXR. If you can check that your problem still persists even in the
latest revision under Subversion,
that is better still.
- Verify that your problem does not also occur in the
corresponding release of CR (i.e. the standard R system); if it does, then
unless it causes you serious problems please do not report it as a CXXR
bug. (There are two reasons for this. First, if a bug affects both CR and
CXXR, it is more important that it is fixed quickly in CR - with its huge
user base - than in CXXR. Second, if a bug is going to be fixed in some
future release of CR anyway, we do not want to spend time second-guessing
how it will be fixed: this is time-consuming in itself, and if we
guess wrong it can mean complications when we eventually synchronise CXXR
with the release of CR that fixes the bug.)
- Check the porting guide to verify that the
difference in behaviour isn't intentional.
- Browse
the existing CXXR problem reports to check that your problem has not
already been reported.
How to report a bug
For the moment, please simply email me at the address given at the foot of
this page, including the phrase 'CXXR BUG' in the subject line. Please remember
to include information about your platform, and an R script - preferably a
short one - exhibiting the problem.
