Hi Carter,

thanks for looking into this. We were initially surprised to see a breaking change in a point release, but no biggy. It's pretty hard to offer strong stability guarantees without automated tooling to catch this kind of thing, and these things happen. We'll patch up HaskellR shortly.

Best,

On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 01:06, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote:

To be clear : I’m annoyed with myself that this impacted a package that depends on vector, but this does seem to be the case that the newest bug fix release for vector actually revealed a broken design for the vector instances / data types in the inline-r package. 

To;dr — I suggest patching inline-r to remove the s parameter in its immutable vector data types 

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 6:48 PM Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote:

so i took a look .. (also the inline-r devs seem to have done a hackage revision so you wont hit that issue in your current setup if you do a cabal update ..)

and it seems like the type definitions in inline-r are kinda bogus  and you should get them patched ...

the MVector type class, and related type families, all assume your mutable type has the last two arguments as the io/state token and then the element type

eg 

basicLength :: v s a -> Int

i looked at https://github.com/tweag/HaskellR/blob/1292c8a9562764d34ee4504b54d93248eb7346fe/inline-r/src/Data/Vector/SEXP.hs#L346-L374 and 

as a point of grounding this chat 

the injective type familly in question is defined by the follwoing

--
#if MIN_VERSION_base(4,9,0)
type family Mutable (v :: * -> *) = (mv :: * -> * -> *) | mv -> v
#else
type family Mutable (v :: * -> *) :: * -> * -> *
#endif

anyways, it looks like the Pure / immutable vector data type in inline-r has a spurious state token argument in its definition that shouldn't be there, OR there need to be two "s" params in inline-r instead of the one

heres the full code i linked to in question 

-- | Mutable R vector. Represented in memory with the same header as 'SEXP'

-- nodes. The second type parameter is phantom, reflecting at the type level the -- tag of the vector when viewed as a 'SEXP'. The tag of the vector and the -- representation type are related via 'ElemRep'. data MVector s ty a = MVector { mvectorBase :: {-# UNPACK #-} !(SEXP s ty) , mvectorOffset :: {-# UNPACK #-} !Int32 , mvectorLength :: {-# UNPACK #-} !Int32 } -- | Internal wrapper type for reflection. First type parameter is the reified -- type to reflect. newtype W t ty s a = W { unW :: MVector s ty a } instance (Reifies t (AcquireIO s), VECTOR s ty a) => G.MVector (W t ty) a where

data Vector s (ty :: SEXPTYPE) a = Vector
{ vectorBase :: {-# UNPACK #-} !(ForeignSEXP ty) , vectorOffset :: {-# UNPACK #-} !Int32 , vectorLength :: {-# UNPACK #-} !Int32
	}

type instance G.Mutable (W t ty s) = Mutable.W t ty

Anyways, the fix here is to remove the s param from the Pure version of W and "Sexp Vector"

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 6:16 PM Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote:

were you using the same version of vector in both setups?

in the most recent  vector release  we made mutable type family injective in the vector package for ghc's that support it ...

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 1:50 PM Dominick Samperi <djsamperi@gmail.com> wrote:

When I use v8.6.3 of GHC under Ubuntu to install the inline-r package
I get the error "Type family equation violates injectivity annotation," and
a type variable on the LHS cannot be inferred from the RHS, due to
the lack of injectivity (I suppose).

On the other hand, v8.0.2 of GHC (shipped with Haskell Platform under
Ubuntu) does not have this problem (it has other problems).

Has something changed in the latest version of the compiler that might
cause this? Possible work-around?

FYI, the line that triggers the error is:
type instance G.Mutable (W t ty s) = Mutable.W t ty

The variable that cannot be inferred is 's'.

Thanks,
Dominick
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