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Thanks @PeteHaitch. @bwlewis Note that it's enough for you to bump **irlba** version and resubmit to CRAN. The new version will then propagate to the user machine which will trigger...

@bwlewis Any ETA for a new version of **irlba** on CRAN? Just to be clear, you don't need to make any change to the package, only bump its version and...

@VitorAguiar Your comment is very misleading! Nobody said that you had to install **Matrix** v1.6_1.1 to fix the "as_cholmod_sparse" issue. If your version of **Matrix** is >= 1.6.2, all you...

@VitorAguiar The breaking change in **Matrix** happened when they went from version 1.6.1 to 1.6.2. So why installing **Matrix** 1.6.5 (current version) vs 1.6-3 would make any difference as far...

Hi @keyes-timothy, Thanks for all the improvements to the vignettes and sorry for the slow response. This is great documentation! Note that changing the title of the vignette to "GETTING...

Hi @keyes-timothy, Just a reminder that the package is still waiting for the minor (and hopefully easy) improvements listed above. Let me know if you have questions. Best, H.

Excellent! Thank you

Where is `.BIOCONDUCTOR_CI_MIRROR` defined? Unfortunately `.url_exists()` still "works" (and returns `FALSE`) when the variable passed to it isn't defined.

A deeper problem with the way **VariantAnnotation** handles the `ALT` field is that it replaces _both_ the dots (`.`) _and_ asterisks (`*`) with an empty string at load time, making...

@DarioS, @lawremi, @mtmorgan, @vjcitn: Anybody wants to try to come up with a fix? I'm not a co-author of **VariantAnnotation** and I don't maintain it either. Was just sharing my...