SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES:
* Packages need to be (re-)installed under this version (4.0.0) of
R.
* matrix objects now also inherit from class "array", so e.g.,
class(diag(1)) is c("matrix", "array"). This invalidates code
incorrectly assuming that class(matrix_obj)) has length one.
S3 methods for class "array" are now dispatched for matrix
objects.
* There is a new syntax for specifying _raw_ character constants
similar to the one used in C++: r"(...)" with ... any character
sequence not containing the sequence )". This makes it easier to
write strings that contain backslashes or both single and double
quotes. For more details see ?Quotes.
* R now uses a stringsAsFactors = FALSE default, and hence by
default no longer converts strings to factors in calls to
data.frame() and read.table().
A large number of packages relied on the previous behaviour and
so have needed/will need updating.
* The plot() S3 generic function is now in package base rather than
package graphics, as it is reasonable to have methods that do not
use the graphics package. The generic is currently re-exported
from the graphics namespace to allow packages importing it from
there to continue working, but this may change in future.
Packages which define S4 generics for plot() should be
re-installed and package code using such generics from other
packages needs to ensure that they are imported rather than rely
on their being looked for on the search path (as in a namespace,
the base namespace has precedence over the search path).
REFERENCE COUNTING:
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- CHANGES IN R 3.6.3:
NEW FEATURES:
* The included LAPACK has been updated to version 3.9.0 (for the
included routines, just bug fixes).
BUG FIXES:
* Fixed a C level integer overflow in rhyper(); reported by
Benjamin Tyner in PR#17694.
* Uses of url(gzcon(.)) needing to extend buffer size have failed
(with HTTP/2 servers), reported by G'abor Cs'ardi.
* predict(loess(..), se=TRUE) now errors out (instead of
seg.faulting etc) for large sample sizes, thanks to a report and
patch by Benjamin Tyner in PR#17121.
* tools:assertCondition(., "error") and hence assertError() no
longer return errors twice (invisibly).
* update(form, new) in the case of a long new formula sometimes
wrongly eliminated the intercept from form, or (more rarely)
added a garbage term (or seg.faulted !); the fix happened by
simplifying the C-level logic of terms.formula(). Reported by
Mathias Amb"uhl in PR#16326.
* The error message from stopifnot(.., <error producing call>)
again contains the full "stopifnot(.......)" call: Its attempted
suppression did not work consistently.
* On Windows, download.file(., , "wininet", headers=character())
would fail; reported with patch proposal by Kevin Ushey in
PR#17710.
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NEW FEATURES:
* The included LAPACK has been updated to version 3.9.0 (for the
included routines, just bug fixes).
BUG FIXES:
* Fixed a C level integer overflow in rhyper(); reported by
Benjamin Tyner in PR#17694.
* Uses of url(gzcon(.)) needing to extend buffer size have failed
(with HTTP/2 servers), reported by G'abor Cs'ardi.
* predict(loess(..), se=TRUE) now errors out (instead of
seg.faulting etc) for large sample sizes, thanks to a report and
patch by Benjamin Tyner in PR#17121.
* tools:assertCondition(., "error") and hence assertError() no
longer return errors twice (invisibly).
* update(form, new) in the case of a long new formula sometimes
wrongly eliminated the intercept from form, or (more rarely)
added a garbage term (or seg.faulted !); the fix happened by
simplifying the C-level logic of terms.formula(). Reported by
Mathias Amb"uhl in PR#16326.
* The error message from stopifnot(.., <error producing call>)
again contains the full "stopifnot(.......)" call: Its attempted
suppression did not work consistently.
* On Windows, download.file(., , "wininet", headers=character())
would fail; reported with patch proposal by Kevin Ushey in
PR#17710.
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- CHANGES IN R 3.6.2:
NEW FEATURES:
* runmed(x, *) gains a new option na.action determining _how_ to
handle NaN or NA in x.
* dotchart() gains new options ann, xaxt, frame.plot and log.
INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE:
* Detection of the C stack direction has been moved from run-time
to configure: this is safer with LTO builds and allows the
detection to be overridden - see file config.site.
* Source-code changes enable installation on platforms using gcc
-fno-common (the expected default for gcc 10.x).
C-LEVEL FACILITIES:
* installTrChar (which is nowadays is wrapped by installChar) is
defined in Rinternals.h. (Neither are part of the API.)
PACKAGE INSTALLATION:
* Header Rconfig.h contains the value of FC_LEN_T deduced at
installation which is used by the prototypes in headers
R_ext/BLAS.h and R_ext/Lapack.h but to avoid extensive breakage
this is only exposed when USE_FC_LEN_T is defined.
If a package's C/C++ calls to BLAS/LAPACK allow for the 'hidden'
arguments used by most Fortran compilers to pass the lengths of
Fortran character arguments, define USE_FC_LEN_T and include
Rconfig.h (possibly _via_ R.h) before including R_ext/BLAS.h or
R_ext/Lapack.h.
* A package with Fortran source code and perhaps C (but not C++)
sources can request for its shared object/DLL to be linked by the
Fortran compiler by including a line USE_FC_TO_LINK= in
src/Makevars[.win] and using $(SHLIB_OPENMP_FFLAGS) as part of
PKG_LIBS.
The known reason for doing so is a package which uses Fortran
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NEW FEATURES:
* runmed(x, *) gains a new option na.action determining _how_ to
handle NaN or NA in x.
* dotchart() gains new options ann, xaxt, frame.plot and log.
INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE:
* Detection of the C stack direction has been moved from run-time
to configure: this is safer with LTO builds and allows the
detection to be overridden - see file config.site.
* Source-code changes enable installation on platforms using gcc
-fno-common (the expected default for gcc 10.x).
C-LEVEL FACILITIES:
* installTrChar (which is nowadays is wrapped by installChar) is
defined in Rinternals.h. (Neither are part of the API.)
PACKAGE INSTALLATION:
* Header Rconfig.h contains the value of FC_LEN_T deduced at
installation which is used by the prototypes in headers
R_ext/BLAS.h and R_ext/Lapack.h but to avoid extensive breakage
this is only exposed when USE_FC_LEN_T is defined.
If a package's C/C++ calls to BLAS/LAPACK allow for the 'hidden'
arguments used by most Fortran compilers to pass the lengths of
Fortran character arguments, define USE_FC_LEN_T and include
Rconfig.h (possibly _via_ R.h) before including R_ext/BLAS.h or
R_ext/Lapack.h.
* A package with Fortran source code and perhaps C (but not C++)
sources can request for its shared object/DLL to be linked by the
Fortran compiler by including a line USE_FC_TO_LINK= in
src/Makevars[.win] and using $(SHLIB_OPENMP_FFLAGS) as part of
PKG_LIBS.
The known reason for doing so is a package which uses Fortran
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- CHANGES IN R 3.6.1:
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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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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- CHANGES IN R 3.6.0:
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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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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- CHANGES IN R 3.5.3:
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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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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- CHANGES IN R 3.5.2:
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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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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- CHANGES IN R 3.5.1 :
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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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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- CHANGES IN R 3.5.0:
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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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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- upstrem updated to 3.4.4
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 3.4.4:
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)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:languages:R:released/R-base?expand=0&rev=68
- upstream updated to 3.4.3
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.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/546684
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/R-base?expand=0&rev=57
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.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:languages:R:released/R-base?expand=0&rev=64
- upstream update to 3.4.2
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)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/529866
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/R-base?expand=0&rev=56
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)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:languages:R:released/R-base?expand=0&rev=62
- upstream update to 3.4.1
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
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/507288
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/R-base?expand=0&rev=54
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
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:languages:R:released/R-base?expand=0&rev=58
- upstream update to 3.4.0
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).
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/489881
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/R-base?expand=0&rev=53
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).
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:languages:R:released/R-base?expand=0&rev=56
- a change in OBS now requires a BuildRequire: shadow for
some openSUSE releases.
- upstream release 3.3.3
- 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)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/477409
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/R-base?expand=0&rev=51
