diff -ru /tmp/bit64/DESCRIPTION bit64/DESCRIPTION
--- /tmp/bit64/DESCRIPTION	2012-01-26 13:52:56.000000000 -0800
+++ bit64/DESCRIPTION	2012-01-27 19:32:38.573387000 -0800
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 Date: 2011-12-12
 Author: Jens Oehlschl\xE4gel <Jens.Oehlschlaegel@truecluster.com>
 Maintainer: Jens Oehlschl\xE4gel <Jens.Oehlschlaegel@truecluster.com>
-Depends: R (>= 2.14.0), bit (>= 1.1-8), methods
+Depends: R (>= 2.12.1), bit (>= 1.1-8), methods
 Description: 
  Package 'bit64' provides serializable S3 atomic 64bit (signed) integers 
  that can be used in vectors, matrices, arrays and data.frames. Methods are 
Only in bit64/: DESCRIPTION~
diff -ru /tmp/bit64/src/integer64.c bit64/src/integer64.c
--- /tmp/bit64/src/integer64.c	2012-01-26 13:52:56.000000000 -0800
+++ bit64/src/integer64.c	2012-01-27 19:32:08.354852000 -0800
@@ -130,9 +130,10 @@
   long long i, n = LENGTH(ret_);
   long long * ret = (long long *) REAL(ret_);
   const char * str;
-  const char * endpointer;
+  char * endpointer;
   for(i=0; i<n; i++){
-	endpointer = str = CHAR(STRING_ELT(x_, i));
+        str = CHAR(STRING_ELT(x_, i));
+        endpointer = (char *)str;
 	ret[i] = strtoll(str, &endpointer, 10);
 	if (*endpointer)
 	  ret[i] = NA_INTEGER64;
@@ -843,4 +844,3 @@
 	}
   return ret_;
 }
-
Only in bit64/src: integer64.c~