Note for Matrix package upgrades

[Finn Lindgren]

Hi all,

with the new Matrix package version 1.6-2 release on CRAN yesterday (8
Nov 2023), you may/will get an error message when running inlabru
and/or INLA code, due to other packages needing to be rebuilt or
reinstalled as they link to Matrix at installation/build time, and
will fail with the new version unless they are rebuilt/reinstalled.
So far I've only identified one such package, "MatrixModels". (you can
find the full list of reverse dependencies for Matrix at
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Matrix/index.html, but that
doesn't reveal which packages actually need reinstallation). Fixing
the problem just requires running
install.packages("MatrixModels")

You can see an example of the type of error that indicates you're
having this issue here:
https://github.com/inlabru-org/inlabru/issues/218

Finn

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Finn Lindgren
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