BH 1.84.0 CRAN Release Planning

[eddelbuettel]

Boost 1.84.0 was released last week, and a package 1.84.0 has been prepared (#98, #99). It can be installed from the ghrr drat or from r-universe

Reverse dependency checks revealed issues with five packages:

• FeatureHashing has had a deprecation warning for some time, as detailed in A request to add timer/include/boost/progress.hpp  #84 I failed to update this in 1.81.0 but have added Boost timer to 1.84.0, this should be relatively simple once 1.84.0 is on CRAN and can be tested now (new version 0.9.2 on CRAN 2024-01-11)
• ldt has a new error in tests; I validated this on another machine; no PR yet (new version 0.5.2 on CRAN 2023-12-21)
• LOMAR needs a change to use of now deprecated bind (new version 0.4.0 on CRAN 2023-12-20)
• sgd also need to switch to timer.hpp (or progress_display.hpp); as described above this needs 1.84.0 released as it now contains the updated timer library
• TDA has some fairly complicated RcppEigen and BH interactions as in prior releases

A release of BH to CRAN is planned for early January approximately one week after CRAN reopens and roughly in four weeks from now.

[eddelbuettel]

BH 1.84.0-0 is now at CRAN so FeatureHashing and sgd can now update to the new, now preferred, progress header. I hope TDA finds time to adapt to 1.84.0 too.

[ptoulis]

Thanks!