INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE:
* The default detection of the shell variable libNN is overridden
for derivatives of Debian Linux, some of which have started to
have a /usr/lib64 directory. (E.g. Ubuntu 19.04.) As before, it
can be specified in config.site.
UTILITIES:
* R CMD config knows the values of AR and RANLIB, often set for LTO
builds.
DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT:
* The use of a character vector with .Fortran() is formally
deprecated and gives a non-portability warning. (It has long
been strongly discouraged in 'Writing R Extensions'.)
BUG FIXES:
* On Windows, GUI package installation via menuInstallPkgs() works
again, thanks to Len Weil's and Duncan Murdoch's PR#17556.
* R CMD check on data() fixing PR#17558 thanks to Duncan Murdoch.
* quasi(*, variance = list(..)) now works more efficiently, and
should work in all cases fixing PR#17560. Further, quasi(var =
mu(1-mu)) and quasi(var = "mu ^ 3") now work, and quasi(variance
= "log(mu)") now gives a correct error message.
* Creation of lazy loading database during package installation is
again robust to Rprofile changing the current working directory
(PR#17559).
* boxplot(y ~ f, horizontal=TRUE) now produces correct x- and
y-labels.
* rbind.data.frame() allows to keep <NA> levels from factor columns
(PR#17562) via new option factor.exclude.
Additionally, it works in one more case with matrix-columns which
had been reported on 2017-01-16 by Krzysztof Banas.
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SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES:
* Serialization format version 3 becomes the default for
serialization and saving of the workspace (save(), serialize(),
saveRDS(), compiler::cmpfile()). Serialized data in format 3
cannot be read by versions of R prior to version 3.5.0.
Serialization format version 2 is still supported and can be
selected by version = 2 in the save/serialization functions. The
default can be changed back for the whole R session by setting
environment variables R_DEFAULT_SAVE_VERSION and
R_DEFAULT_SERIALIZE_VERSION to 2. For maximal
back-compatibility, files vignette.rds and partial.rdb generated
by R CMD build are in serialization format version 2, and resave
by default produces files in serialization format version 2
(unless the original is already in format version 3).
* The default method for generating from a discrete uniform
distribution (used in sample(), for instance) has been changed.
This addresses the fact, pointed out by Ottoboni and Stark, that
the previous method made sample() noticeably non-uniform on large
populations. See PR#17494 for a discussion. The previous method
can be requested using RNGkind() or RNGversion() if necessary for
reproduction of old results. Thanks to Duncan Murdoch for
contributing the patch and Gabe Becker for further assistance.
The output of RNGkind() has been changed to also return the
'kind' used by sample().
NEW FEATURES:
* Sys.setFileTime() has been vectorized so arguments path and time
of length greater than one are now supported.
* axis() gets new option gap.axis = NA for specifying a
multiplication factor for the minimal "gap" (distance) between
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INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE:
* Detection of flags for C++98/11/14/17 has been improved: in
particular if CXX??STD is set, it is tried first with no
additional flags.
PACKAGE INSTALLATION:
* New macro F_VISIBILITY as an alternative to F77_VISIBILITY. This
will become the preferred form in R 3.6.0.
BUG FIXES:
* writeLines(readLines(fnam), fnam) now works as expected, thanks
to Peter Meissner's PR#17528.
* setClassUnion() no longer warns, but uses message() for now, when
encountering "non local" subclasses of class members.
* stopifnot(exprs = T) no longer fails.
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PACKAGE INSTALLATION:
* New macro CXX_VISIBILITY analogous to C_VISIBILITY (which several
packages have been misusing for C++ code) for the default C++
compiler (but not necessarily one used for non-default C++
dialects like C++14).
TESTING:
* The random number generator tests in tests/p-r-random-tests.R no
longer fail occasionally as they now randomly sample from
"certified" random seeds.
BUG FIXES:
* The "glm" method of drop1() miscalculated the score test
(test="Rao") when the model contained an offset.
* Linear multiple empty models such as lm(y ~ 0) now have a
correctly dimensioned empty coefficient matrix; reported by Brett
Presnell.
* vcov(<empty mlm>) and hence confint() now work (via a consistency
change in summary.lm()).
* confint(<multiple lm()>) now works correctly; reported on R-devel
by Steven Pav.
* quade.test() now also works correctly when its arguments are not
yet sorted along groups, fixing PR#15842.
* Installation on a Unix-alike tries harder to link to the pthread
library where required (rather than relying on OpenMP to provide
it: configuring with --disable-openmp was failing on some Linux
systems).
* The data.frame method for print(x) is fast now also for large
data frames x and got an optional argument max, thanks to
suggestions by Juan Telleria.
* hist() no longer integer overflows in very rare cases, fixing
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BUG FIXES:
* file("stdin") is no longer considered seekable.
* dput() and dump() are no longer truncating when
options(deparse.max.lines = *) is set.
* Calls with an S3 class are no longer evaluated when printed,
fixing part of PR#17398, thanks to a patch from Lionel Henry.
* Allow file argument of Rscript to include space even when it is
first on the command line.
* callNextMethod() uses the generic from the environment of the
calling method. Reported by Herv'e Pag`es with well documented
examples.
* Compressed file connections are marked as blocking.
* optim(*, lower = c(-Inf, -Inf)) no longer warns (and switches the
method), thanks to a suggestion by John Nash.
* predict(fm, newdata) is now correct also for models where the
formula has terms such as splines::ns(..) or stats::poly(..),
fixing PR#17414, based on a patch from Duncan Murdoch.
* simulate.lm(glm(*, gaussian(link = <non-default>))) has been
corrected, fixing PR#17415 thanks to Alex Courtiol.
* unlist(x) no longer fails in some cases of nested empty lists.
Reported by Steven Nydick.
* qr.coef(qr(<all 0, w/ colnames>)) now works. Reported by Kun
Ren.
* The radix sort is robust to vectors with >1 billion elements (but
long vectors are still unsupported). Thanks to Matt Dowle for the
fix.
* Terminal connections (e.g., stdin) are no longer buffered. Fixes
PR#17432.
* deparse(x), dput(x) and dump() now respect c()'s argument names
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SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES:
* All packages are by default byte-compiled on installation. This
makes the installed packages larger (usually marginally so) and
may affect the format of messages and tracebacks (which often
exclude .Call and similar).
NEW FEATURES:
* factor() now uses order() to sort its levels, rather than
sort.list(). This allows factor() to support custom vector-like
objects if methods for the appropriate generics are defined. It
has the side effect of making factor() succeed on empty or
length-one non-atomic vector(-like) types (e.g., "list"), where
it failed before.
* diag() gets an optional names argument: this may require updates
to packages defining S4 methods for it.
* chooseCRANmirror() and chooseBioCmirror() no longer have a
useHTTPS argument, not needed now all R builds support https://
downloads.
* New summary() method for warnings() with a (somewhat
experimental) print() method.
* (methods package.) .self is now automatically registered as a
global variable when registering a reference class method.
* tempdir(check = TRUE) recreates the tempdir() directory if it is
no longer valid (e.g. because some other process has cleaned up
the /tmp directory).
* New askYesNo() function and "askYesNo" option to ask the user
binary response questions in a customizable but consistent way.
(Suggestion of PR#17242.)
* New low level utilities ...elt(n) and ...length() for working
with ... parts inside a function.
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CHANGES IN R 3.4.4:
NEW FEATURES:
* Sys.timezone() tries more heuristics on Unix-alikes and so is
more likely to succeed (especially on Linux). For the slowest
method, a warning is given recommending that TZ is set to avoid
the search.
* The version of LAPACK included in the sources has been updated to
3.8.0 (for the routines used by R, a very minor bug-fix change).
* parallel::detectCores(logical = FALSE) is ignored on Linux
systems, since the information is not available with virtualized
OSes.
INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE:
* configure will use pkg-config to find the flags to link to jpeg
if available (as it should be for the recently-released jpeg-9c
and libjpeg-turbo). (This amends the code added in R 3.3.0 as
the module name in jpeg-9c is not what that tested for.)
DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT:
* Sys.timezone(location = FALSE) (which was a stop-gap measure for
Windows long ago) is deprecated. It no longer returns the value
of environment variable TZ (usually a location).
* Legacy support of make macros such as CXX1X is formally
deprecated: use the CXX11 forms instead.
BUG FIXES:
* power.prop.test() now warns when it cannot solve the problem,
typically because of impossible constraints. (PR#17345)
* removeSource() no longer erroneously removes NULL in certain
cases, thanks to D'enes T'oth.
* nls(`NO [mol/l]` ~ f(t)) and nls(y ~ a) now work. (Partly from
PR#17367)
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CHANGES IN R 3.4.3:
INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE:
* A workaround has been added for the changes in location of
time-zone files in macOS 10.13 'High Sierra' and again in
10.13.1, so the default time zone is deduced correctly from the
system setting when R is configured with --with-internal-tzcode
(the default on macOS).
* R CMD javareconf has been updated to recognize the use of a Java
9 SDK on macOS.
BUG FIXES:
* raw(0) & raw(0) and raw(0) | raw(0) again return raw(0) (rather
than logical(0)).
* intToUtf8() converts integers corresponding to surrogate code
points to NA rather than invalid UTF-8, as well as values larger
than the current Unicode maximum of 0x10FFFF. (This aligns with
the current RFC3629.)
* Fix calling of methods on S4 generics that dispatch on ... when
the call contains ....
* Following Unicode 'Corrigendum 9', the UTF-8 representations of
U+FFFE and U+FFFF are now regarded as valid by utf8ToInt().
* range(c(TRUE, NA), finite = TRUE) and similar no longer return
NA. (Reported by Lukas Stadler.)
* The self starting function attr(SSlogis, "initial") now also
works when the y values have exact minimum zero and is slightly
changed in general, behaving symmetrically in the y range.
* The printing of named raw vectors is now formatted nicely as for
other such atomic vectors, thanks to Lukas Stadler.
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CHANGES IN R 3.4.2:
NEW FEATURES:
* Setting the LC_ALL category in Sys.setlocale() invalidates any
cached locale-specific day/month names and the AM/PM indicator
for strptime() (as setting LC_TIME has since R 3.1.0).
* The version of LAPACK included in the sources has been updated to
3.7.1, a bug-fix release.
* The default for tools::write_PACKAGES(rds_compress=) has been
changed to "xz" to match the compression used by CRAN.
* c() and unlist() are now more efficient in constructing the
names(.) of their return value, thanks to a proposal by Suharto
Anggono. (PR#17284)
UTILITIES:
* R CMD check checks for and R CMD build corrects CRLF line endings
in shell scripts configure and cleanup (even on Windows).
INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE:
* The order of selection of OpenMP flags has been changed: Oracle
Developer Studio 12.5 accepts -fopenmp and -xopenmp but only the
latter enables OpenMP so it is now tried first.
BUG FIXES:
* within(List, rm(x1, x2)) works correctly again, including when
List[["x2"]] is NULL.
* regexec(pattern, text, *) now applies as.character(.) to its
first two arguments, as documented.
* write.table() and related functions, writeLines(), and perhaps
other functions writing text to connections did not signal errors
when the writes failed, e.g. due to a disk being full. Errors
will now be signalled if detected during the write, warnings if
detected when the connection is closed. (PR#17243)
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CHANGES IN R 3.4.1:
INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE:
* The deprecated support for PCRE versions older than 8.20 has been
removed.
BUG FIXES:
* getParseData() gave incorrect column information when code
contained multi-byte characters. (PR#17254)
* Asking for help using expressions like ?stats::cor() did not
work. (PR#17250)
* readRDS(url(....)) now works.
* R CMD Sweave again returns status = 0 on successful completion.
* Vignettes listed in .Rbuildignore were not being ignored
properly. (PR#17246)
* file.mtime() no longer returns NA on Windows when the file or
directory is being used by another process. This affected
installed.packages(), which is now protected against this.
* R CMD INSTALL Windows .zip file obeys --lock and --pkglock flags.
* (Windows only) The choose.files() function could return incorrect
results when called with multi = FALSE. (PR#17270)
* aggregate(<data.frame>, drop = FALSE) now also works in case of
near-equal numbers in by. (PR#16918)
* fourfoldplot() could encounter integer overflow when calculating
the odds ratio. (PR#17286)
* parse() no longer gives spurious warnings when extracting srcrefs
from a file not encoded in the current locale.
This was seen from R CMD check with inst/doc/*.R files, and check
has some additional protection for such files.
* print.noquote(x) now always returns its argument x (invisibly).
* Non-UTF-8 multibyte character sets were not handled properly in
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CHANGES IN R 3.4.0:
SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES:
* (Unix-alike) The default methods for download.file() and url()
now choose "libcurl" except for file:// URLs. There will be
small changes in the format and wording of messages, including in
rare cases if an issue is a warning or an error. For example,
when HTTP re-direction occurs, some messages refer to the final
URL rather than the specified one.
Those who use proxies should check that their settings are
compatible (see ?download.file: the most commonly used forms work
for both "internal" and "libcurl").
* table() has been amended to be more internally consistent and
become back compatible to R <= 2.7.2 again. Consequently,
table(1:2, exclude = NULL) no longer contains a zero count for
<NA>, but useNA = "always" continues to do so.
* summary.default() no longer rounds, but its print method does
resulting in less extraneous rounding, notably of numbers in the
ten thousands.
* factor(x, exclude = L) behaves more rationally when x or L are
character vectors. Further, exclude = <factor> now behaves as
documented for long.
* Arithmetic, logic (&, |) and comparison (aka 'relational', e.g.,
<, ==) operations with arrays now behave consistently, notably
for arrays of length zero.
Arithmetic between length-1 arrays and longer non-arrays had
silently dropped the array attributes and recycled. This now
gives a warning and will signal an error in the future, as it has
always for logic and comparison operations in these cases (e.g.,
compare matrix(1,1) + 2:3 and matrix(1,1) < 2:3).
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- Most important changes
CHANGES IN R 3.3.3:
NEW FEATURES:
* Changes when redirection of a http:// URL to a https:// URL is
encountered:
* The internal methods of download.file() and url() now report
that they cannot follow this (rather than failing silently).
* (Unix-alike) download.file(method = "auto") (the default)
re-tries with method = "libcurl".
* (Unix-alike) url(method = "default") with an explicit open
argument re-tries with method = "libcurl". This covers many
of the usages, e.g. readLines() with a URL argument.
INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE:
* The configure check for the zlib version is now robust to
versions longer than 5 characters, including 1.2.11.
UTILITIES:
* Environmental variable _R_CHECK_TESTS_NLINES_ controls how R CMD
check reports failing tests (see SS8 of the 'R Internals' manual).
DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT:
* (C-level Native routine registration.) The undocumented styles
field of the components of R_CMethodDef and R_FortranMethodDef is
deprecated.
BUG FIXES:
* vapply(x, *) now works with long vectors x. (PR#17174)
* isS3method("is.na.data.frame") and similar are correct now.
(PR#17171)
* grepRaw(<long>, <short>, fixed = TRUE) now works, thanks to a
patch by Mikko Korpela. (PR#17132)
* Package installation into a library where the package exists
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- Most important changes
CHANGES IN R 3.3.2:
NEW FEATURES:
* extSoftVersion() now reports the version (if any) of the readline
library in use.
* The version of LAPACK included in the sources has been updated to
3.6.1, a bug-fix release including a speedup for the
non-symmetric case of eigen().
* Use options(deparse.max.lines=) to limit the number of lines
recorded in .Traceback and other deparsing activities.
* format(<AsIs>) looks more regular, also for non-character atomic
matrices.
* abbreviate() gains an option named = TRUE.
* The online documentation for package methods is extensively
rewritten. The goals are to simplify documentation for basic
use, to note old features not recommended and to correct
out-of-date information.
* Calls to setMethod() no longer print a message when creating a
generic function in those cases where that is natural: S3
generics and primitives.
INSTALLATION and INCLUDED SOFTWARE:
* Versions of the readline library >= 6.3 had been changed so that
terminal window resizes were not signalled to readline: code has
been added using a explicit signal handler to work around that
(when R is compiled against readline >= 6.3). (PR#16604)
* configure works better with Oracle Developer Studio 12.5.
UTILITIES:
* R CMD check reports more dubious flags in files
src/Makevars[.in], including -w and -g.
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- Most important changes
CHANGES IN R 3.3.1:
BUG FIXES:
* R CMD INSTALL and hence install.packages() gave an internal error
installing a package called description from a tarball on a
case-insensitive file system.
* match(x, t) (and hence x %in% t) failed when x was of length one,
and either character and x and t only differed in their Encoding
or when x and t where complex with NAs or NaNs. (PR#16885.)
* unloadNamespace(ns) also works again when ns is a 'namespace', as
from getNamespace().
* rgamma(1,Inf) or rgamma(1, 0,0) no longer give NaN but the
correct limit.
* length(baseenv()) is correct now.
* pretty(d, ..) for date-time d rarely failed when "halfmonth" time
steps were tried (PR#16923) and on 'inaccurate' platforms such as
32-bit windows or a configuration with --disable-long-double; see
comment #15 of PR#16761.
* In text.default(x, y, labels), the rarely(?) used default for
labels is now correct also for the case of a 2-column matrix x
and missing y.
* as.factor(c(a = 1L)) preserves names() again as in R < 3.1.0.
* strtrim(""[0], 0[0]) now works.
* Use of Ctrl-C to terminate a reverse incremental search started
by Ctrl-R in the readline-based Unix terminal interface is now
supported for readline >= 6.3 (Ctrl-G always worked). (PR#16603)
* diff(<difftime>) now keeps the "units" attribute, as subtraction
already did, PR#16940.
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CHANGES IN R 3.3.0:
SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES:
* nchar(x, *)'s argument keepNA governing how the result for NAs in
x is determined, gets a new default keepNA = NA which returns NA
where x is NA, except for type = "width" which still returns 2,
the formatting / printing width of NA.
* All builds have support for https: URLs in the default methods
for download.file(), url() and code making use of them.
Unfortunately that cannot guarantee that any particular https:
URL can be accessed. For example, server and client have to
successfully negotiate a cryptographic protocol (TLS/SSL, ...)
and the server's identity has to be verifiable _via_ the
available certificates. Different access methods may allow
different protocols or use private certificate bundles: we
encountered a https: CRAN mirror which could be accessed by one
browser but not by another nor by download.file() on the same
Linux machine.
NEW FEATURES:
* The print method for methods() gains a byclass argument.
* New functions validEnc() and validUTF8() to give access to the
validity checks for inputs used by grep() and friends.
* Experimental new functionality for S3 method checking, notably
isS3method().
Also, the names of the R 'language elements' are exported as
character vector tools::langElts.
* str(x) now displays "Time-Series" also for matrix (multivariate)
time-series, i.e. when is.ts(x) is true.
* (Windows only) The GUI menu item to install local packages now
accepts *.tar.gz files as well as *.zip files (but defaults to
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BUG FIXES:
• format.POSIXlt() behaved incorrectly in R 3.2.4. E.g. the output
of format(as.POSIXlt(paste0(1940:2000,"-01-01"), tz = "CET"),
usetz = TRUE) ended in two "CEST" time formats.
• A typo in the Makefile for src/extra/xz prevented builds of
liblzma.a. (Notice that this will become unbundled in 3.3.0.)
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NEWS: The 3.2.4 release had two annoyances which we would rather
not have in an "ultra-stable" release, designed to hang around
for the duration of the 3.3 series. One was a relatively minor
Makefile issue affecting system using R's bundled lzma library.
The other, rather more serious, affected printing and formatting
of POSIXlt objects, which would unpredictably get the Daylight
Savings Time wrong.
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CHANGES IN R 3.2.4:
NEW FEATURES:
• install.packages() and related functions now give a more
informative warning when an attempt is made to install a base
package.
• summary(x) now prints with less rounding when x contains infinite
values. (Request of PR#16620.)
• provideDimnames() gets an optional unique argument.
• shQuote() gains type = "cmd2" for quoting in cmd.exe in Windows.
(Response to PR#16636.)
• The data.frame method of rbind() gains an optional argument
stringsAsFactors (instead of only depending on
getOption("stringsAsFactors")).
• smooth(x, *) now also works for long vectors.
• tools::texi2dvi() has a workaround for problems with the texi2dvi
script supplied by texinfo 6.1.
It extracts more error messages from the LaTeX logs when in
emulation mode.
UTILITIES:
• R CMD check will leave a log file build_vignettes.log from the
re-building of vignettes in the .Rcheck directory if there is a
problem, and always if environment variable
_R_CHECK_ALWAYS_LOG_VIGNETTE_OUTPUT_ is set to a true value.
DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT:
• Use of SUPPORT_OPENMP from header Rconfig.h is deprecated in
favour of the standard OpenMP define _OPENMP.
(This has been the recommendation in the manual for a while now.)
• The make macro AWK which is long unused by R itself but recorded
in file etc/Makeconf is deprecated and will be removed in R
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divided over 30 something packages, with the following layout.
R-base-3.2.3: dummy packages, contains all of R
Use R-base, if you don´t have a good understandig what it means
to install only parts of it!
R-base-devel-3.2.3: dummy, contains R-core-devel
R-core-3.2.3: R core, no packages at all
R-core-devel-3.2.3: devel files
R-core-libs-3.2.3: contains Rlib
R-core-doc-3.2.3: all the documentation of R-core
R-core-packages-3.2.3: dummy package to load all core packages, that are
R-compiler-3.2.3,
R-datasets-3.2.3,
R-grDevices-3.2.3,
R-graphics-3.2.3,
R-grid-3.2.3,
R-methods-3.2.3,
R-parallel-3.2.3,
R-splines-3.2.3,
R-stats-3.2.3,
R-stats4-3.2.3,
R-tcltk-3.2.3,
R-tools-3.2.3,
R-utils-3.2.3.
Each of these packages may be installed alone.
R-recommended-packages-3.2.3: dummy package to load all recommeded
packages, that are
R-boot-1.3.17,
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CHANGES IN R 3.2.3:
NEW FEATURES:
* Some recently-added Windows time zone names have been added to
the conversion table used to convert these to Olson names.
(Including those relating to changes for Russia in Oct 2014, as
in PR#16503.)
* (Windows) Compatibility information has been added to the
manifests for Rgui.exe, Rterm.exe and Rscript.exe. This should
allow win.version() and Sys.info() to report the actual Windows
version up to Windows 10.
* Windows "wininet" FTP first tries EPSV / PASV mode rather than
only using active mode (reported by Dan Tenenbaum).
* which.min(x) and which.max(x) may be much faster for logical and
integer x and now also work for long vectors.
* The 'emulation' part of tools::texi2dvi() has been somewhat
enhanced, including supporting quiet = TRUE. It can be selected
by texi2dvi = "emulation".
(Windows) MiKTeX removed its texi2dvi.exe command in Sept 2015:
tools::texi2dvi() tries texify.exe if it is not found.
* (Windows only) Shortcuts for printing and saving have been added
to menus in Rgui.exe. (Request of PR#16572.)
* loess(..., iterTrace=TRUE) now provides diagnostics for
robustness iterations, and the print() method for
summary(<loess>) shows slightly more.
* The included version of PCRE has been updated to 8.38, a bug-fix
release.
* View() now displays nested data frames in a more friendly way.
(Request with patch in PR#15915.)
INSTALLATION and INCLUDED SOFTWARE:
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There were requests to use the libs without the interpreter.
Furthermore it is now possible to use a frugal installation of R.
The following binaries are built now:
R-base-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm : A Meta-package. Use this, and it looks
just like it looked the last 10 years.
Requires base and recommended packages.
R-base-devel-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm: Just for backward compatibility.
R-core-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-core-libs-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-core-devel-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm : The R-core packages install
a bare-bones R. No packages inculded.
R-grid-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-graphics-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-grDevices-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-datasets-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-stats4-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-methods-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-tcltk-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-compiler-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-parallel-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-splines-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-stats-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-utils-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-tools-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm : All the base packages.
R-recommended-3.2.2-5.1.x86_64.rpm : A meta-package including all
recommended packages.
R-cluster-2.0.3-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-nlme-3.1.121-5.1.x86_64.rpm
R-lattice-0.20.33-5.1.x86_64.rpm
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- Most important
CHANGES IN R 3.2.2:
SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES:
* It is now easier to use secure downloads from https:// URLs on
builds which support them: no longer do non-default options need
to be selected to do so. In particular, packages can be
installed from repositories which offer https:// URLs, and those
listed by setRepositories() now do so (for some of their
mirrors).
Support for https:// URLs is available on Windows, and on other
platforms if support for libcurl was compiled in and if that
supports the https protocol (system installations can be expected
to do). So https:// support can be expected except on rather old
OSes (an example being OS X 'Snow Leopard', where a non-system
version of libcurl can be used).
(Windows only) The default method for accessing URLs _via_
download.file() and url() has been changed to be "wininet" using
Windows API calls. This changes the way proxies need to be set
and security settings made: there have been some reports of sites
being inaccessible under the new default method (but the previous
methods remain available).
NEW FEATURES:
* cmdscale() gets new option list. for increased flexibility when a
list should be returned.
* configure now supports texinfo version 6.0, which (unlike the
change from 4.x to 5.0) is a minor update. (Wish of PR#16456.)
* (Non-Windows only) download.file() with default method = "auto"
now chooses "libcurl" if that is available and a https:// or
ftps:// URL is used.
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- Improvement of build: include libcurl and texlive-dvips/
texlive-hevetic
- Most important
CHANGES IN R 3.2.1:
NEW FEATURES:
* utf8ToInt() now checks that its input is valid UTF-8 and returns
NA if it is not.
* install.packages() now allows type = "both" with repos = NULL if
it can infer the type of file.
* nchar(x, *) and nzchar(x) gain a new argument keepNA which
governs how the result for NAs in x is determined. For the R
3.2.x series, the default remains FALSE which is fully back
compatible. From R 3.3.0, the default will change to keepNA = NA
and you are advised to consider this for code portability.
* news() more flexibly extracts dates from package NEWS.Rd files.
* lengths(x) now also works (trivially) for atomic x and hence can
be used more generally as an efficient replacement of sapply(x,
length) and similar.
* The included version of PCRE has been updated to 8.37, a bug-fix
release.
* diag() no longer duplicates a matrix when extracting its
diagonal.
* as.character.srcref() gains an argument to allow characters
corresponding to a range of source references to be extracted.
BUG FIXES:
* acf() and ccf() now guarantee values strictly in [-1,1] (instead
of sometimes very slightly outside). PR#15832.
* as.integer("111111111111") now gives NA (with a warning) as it
does for the corresponding numeric or negative number coercions.
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- Most important
CHANGES IN 3.2.0:
NEW FEATURES:
* anyNA() gains a recursive argument.
* When x is missing and names is not false (including the default
value), Sys.getenv(x, names) returns an object of class "Dlist"
and hence prints tidily.
* (Windows.) shell() no longer consults the environment variable
SHELL: too many systems have been encountered where it was set
incorrectly (usually to a path where software was compiled, not
where it was installed). R_SHELL, the preferred way to select a
non-default shell, can be used instead.
* Some unusual arguments to embedFonts() can now be specified as
character vectors, and the defaults have been changed
accordingly.
* Functions in the Summary group duplicate less. (PR#15798)
* (Unix-alikes.) system(cmd, input = ) now uses
'shell-execution-environment' redirection, which will be more
natural if cmd is not a single command (but requires a
POSIX-compliant shell). (Wish of PR#15508)
* read.fwf() and read.DIF() gain a fileEncoding argument, for
convenience.
* Graphics devices can add attributes to their description in
.Device and .Devices. Several of those included with R use a
"filepath" attribute.
* pmatch() uses hashing in more cases and so is faster at the
expense of using more memory. (PR#15697)
* pairs() gains new arguments to select sets of variables to be
plotted against each other.
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- Most important
CHANGES IN R 3.1.3:
NEW FEATURES:
* The internal method of download.file() can now handle files
larger than 2GB on 32-bit builds which support such files (tested
on 32-bit R running on 64-bit Windows).
* kruskal.test() warns on more types of suspicious input.
* The as.dendrogram() method for "hclust" objects gains a check
argument protecting against memory explosion for invalid inputs.
* capabilities() has a new item long.double which indicates if the
build uses a long double type which is longer than double.
* nlm() no longer modifies the callback argument in place (a new
vector is allocated for each invocation, which mimics the
implicit duplication that occurred in R < 3.1.0); note that this
is a change from the previously documented behavior. (PR#15958)
* icuSetCollate() now accepts locale = "ASCII" which uses the basic
C function strcmp and so collates strings byte-by-byte in
numerical order.
* sessionInfo() tries to report the OS version in use (not just
that compiled under, and including details of Linux
distributions).
* model.frame() (used by lm() and many other modelling functions)
now warns when it drops contrasts from factors. (Wish of
PR#16119)
* install.packages() and friends now accept the value type =
"binary" as a synonym for the native binary type on the platform
(if it has one).
* Single source or binary files can be supplied for
install.packages(type = "both") and the appropriate type and
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- Most important
CHANGES IN R 3.1.2:
NEW FEATURES:
* embedFonts() now defaults to format = "ps2write" for .ps and .eps
files. This is available in Ghostscript 9.x (since 2010) whereas
the previous default, format = "pswrite", was removed in
Ghostscript 9.10.
* For consistency with [dpqr]norm(), [dp]lnorm(sdlog = 0) model a
point mass at exp(mulog) rather than return NaN (for an error).
* capabilities() now reports if ICU is compiled in for use for
collation (it is only actually used if a suitable locale is set
for collation, and never for a C locale).
* (OS X only.) Package tcltk checks when loaded if it is linked
against the CRAN X11-based Tcl/Tk and if so that the Tcl/Tk
component and the X11 libraries are installed. This allows more
informative error messages to be given advising the installation
of the missing component or of XQuartz.
The X11() device and X11-based versions of the data editor and
viewer (invoked by edit() and View() for data frames and matrices
from command-line R) check that the X11 libraries are installed
and if not advises installing XQuartz.
* icuSetCollate() allows locale = "default", and locale = "none" to
use OS services rather than ICU for collation.
Environment variable R_ICU_LOCALE can be used to set the default
ICU locale, in case the one derived from the OS locale is
inappropriate (this is currently necessary on Windows).
* New function icuGetCollate() to report on the ICU collation
locale in use (if any).
* utils::URLencode() was updated to use unreserved and reserved
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