[Developers] glmmADBM status update

[Arni Magnusson]

The R package glmmADMB has been in a slightly broken state on R-Forge 
lately. At the same time, its popularity keeps increasing, based on 
journal citations.

I have just given the package a quick first aid treatment (Heimlich 
maneuver and sulfur hexafluoride) which got rid of several build warnings. 
I also bumped the version number to 0.8.0, as the old 0.7.7 was not 
getting very far with R CMD check.

On a technical note, it passes the standard CRAN package integrity tests, 
including all the examples on the help pages - but fails a couple of tests 
in the strict test suite that Ben Bolker (lead maintainer of glmmADMB) 
implemented. These are run after the standard CRAN tests. The crashes seem 
to be related to syntax errors that return an error instead of wrong 
numbers (which would be worse). The restults from the help page examples 
is the same as in previous versions of glmmADMB. The glmmADMB developers 
will look into what is causing the strict test suite to crash. This 
still-slightly-broken state of affairs does not prevent us from building 
the package, which I have just done.

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To make a long story short, the simplest way to get glmmADMB 0.8.0 for 
Linux and Windows (R 3.x) is to run:

install.packages("glmmADMB",
   repos=c("http://glmmadmb.r-forge.r-project.org/repos",
           getOption("repos")))

Happy glmmADMBing!

Arni