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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- Upstream release 3.1.1
- Most impotant
CHANGES IN R 3.1.1:
CHANGES IN R 3.1.1:
NEW FEATURES:
* When attach() reports conflicts, it does so compatibly with
library() by using message().
* R CMD Sweave no longer cleans any files by default, compatibly
with versions of R prior to 3.1.0. There are new options
--clean, --clean=default and --clean=keepOuts.
* tools::buildVignette() and tools::buildVignettes() with clean =
FALSE no longer remove any created files. buildvignette() gains
a keep argument for more cleaning customization.
* The Bioconductor 'version' used by setRepositories() can now be
set by environment variable R_BIOC_VERSION at runtime, not just
when R is installed. (It has been stated that Bioconductor will
switch from 'version' 2.14 to 'version' 3.0 during the lifetime
of the R 3.1 series.)
* Error messages from bugs in embedded Sexpr code in Sweave
documents now report the source location.
* type.convert(), read.table() and similar read.*() functions get a
new numerals argument, specifying how numeric input is converted
when its conversion to double precision loses accuracy. The
default value, "allow.loss" allows accuracy loss, as in R
versions before 3.1.0.
* For some compilers, integer addition could overflow without a
warning. R's internal code for both integer addition and
subtraction is more robust now. (PR#15774)
* The function determining the default number of knots for
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- Upstream release 3.1.0
- Most impotant
CHANGES IN R 3.1.0:
NEW FEATURES:
* type.convert() (and hence by default read.table()) returns a
character vector or factor when representing a numeric input as a
double would lose accuracy. Similarly for complex inputs.
If a file contains numeric data with unrepresentable numbers of
decimal places that are intended to be read as numeric, specify
colClasses in read.table() to be "numeric".
* tools::Rdiff(useDiff = FALSE) is closer to the POSIX definition
of diff -b (as distinct from the description in the man pages of
most systems).
* New function anyNA(), a version of any(is.na(.)) which is fast
for atomic vectors, based on a proposal by Tim Hesterberg. (Wish
of PR#15239.)
* arrayInd(*, useNames = TRUE) and, analogously, which(*, arr.ind =
TRUE) now make use of names(.dimnames) when available.
* is.unsorted() now also works for raw vectors.
* The "table" method for as.data.frame() (also useful as
as.data.frame.table()) now passes sep and base arguments to
provideDimnames().
* uniroot() gets new optional arguments, notably extendInt,
allowing to auto-extend the search interval when needed. The
return value has an extra component, init.it.
* switch(f, ...) now warns when f is a factor, as this typically
happens accidentally where the useR meant to pass a character
string, but f is treated as integer (as always documented).
* The parser has been modified to use less memory.
* The way the unary operators (+ - !) handle attributes is now more
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- Upstream release 3.0.3
- Most important
CHANGES IN R 3.0.3:
NEW FEATURES:
* On Windows there is support for making .texi manuals using
texinfo 5.0 or later: the setting is in file
src/gnuwin32/MkRules.dist.
A packaging of the Perl script and modules for texinfo 5.2 has
been made available at <URL:
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/>.
* write.table() now handles matrices of 2^31 or more elements, for
those with large amounts of patience and disc space.
* There is a new function, La_version(), to report the version of
LAPACK in use.
* The HTML version of 'An Introduction to R' now has links to PNG
versions of the figures.
* There is some support to produce manuals in ebook formats. (See
doc/manual/Makefile. Suggested by Mauro Cavalcanti.)
* On a Unix-alike Sys.timezone() returns NA if the environment
variable TZ is unset, to distinguish it from an empty string
which on some OSes means the UTC time zone.
* The backtick may now be escaped in strings, to allow names
containing them to be constructed, e.g. `\``. (PR#15621)
* read.table(), readLines() and scan() now warn when an embedded
nul is found in the input. (Related to PR#15625 which was
puzzled by the behaviour in this unsupported case.)
* (Windows only.) file.symlink() works around the undocumented
restriction of the Windows system call to backslashes. (Wish of
PR#15631.)
* KalmanForecast(fast = FALSE) is now the default, and the help
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- Removed outdated source file after lateste sr
- Upstream release 3.0.2
- Most important
CHANGES IN R 3.0.2:
NEW FEATURES:
* The NEWS files have been re-organized.
This file contains news for R >= 3.0.0: news for the 0.x.y, 1.x.y
and 2.x.y releases is in files NEWS.0, NEWS.1 and NEWS.2. The
latter files are now installed when R is installed. An HTML
version of news from 2.10.0 to 2.15.3 is available as
doc/html/NEWS.2.html.
* sum() for integer arguments now uses an integer accumulator of at
least 64 bits and so will be more accurate in the very rare case
that a cumulative sum exceeds 2^53 (necessarily summing more than
4 million elements).
* The example() and tools::Rd2ex() functions now have parameters to
allow them to ignore \dontrun markup in examples. (Suggested by
Peter Solymos.)
* str(x) is considerably faster for very large lists, or factors
with 100,000 levels, the latter as in PR#15337.
* col2rgb() now converts factors to character strings not integer
codes (suggested by Bryan Hanson).
* tail(warnings()) now works, via the new `[` method.
* There is now support for the LaTeX style file zi4.sty which has
in some distributions replaced inconsolata.sty.
* unlist(x) now typically returns all non-list xs unchanged, not
just the "vector" ones. Consequently, format(lst) now also works
when the list lst has non-vector elements.
* The tools::getVignetteInfo() function has been added to give
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- Improved spec file: R-base-devel requires R-base
- Upstream release 3.0.1
- Most important
CHANGES IN R 3.0.1:
NEW FEATURES:
o chooseCRANmirror() and chooseBioCmirror() gain an ind argument
(like setRepositories()).
o mcparallel has a new argument mc.interactive which can modify the
interactive flag in the child process. The new default is FALSE
which makes child processes non-interactive by default (this
prevents lock-ups due to children waiting for interactive input).
o scan() now warns when end-of-file occurs within a quoted string.
o count.fields() is now consistent with scan() in its handling of
newlines in quoted strings. Instead of triggering an error, this
results in the current line receiving NA as the field count, with
the next line getting the total count of the two lines.
o The default method of image() will plot axes of the class of xlim
and ylim (and hence of x and y if there is a suitable range()
method). Based on a suggestion of Michael Sumner.
o load() now has a verbose argument for debugging support, to print
the names of objects just before loading them.
o When loading a serialized object encounters a reference to a
namespace which cannot be loaded, this is replaced by a reference
to the global environment, with a warning.
o pairs() gains a line.main option for title placement.
o The remaining instances in which serialization to a raw vector
was limited to 2GB have been unlimited on a 64-bit platform, and
in most cases serialization to a vector of more than 1GB will be
substantially faster.
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- There were a few new files in foreign and rpart.
Fixed now. Builds fine.
The upstream release happened today 11:01 CET. Would just
be great if it could be included in 12.3!
- Upstream release 2.15.3
- see, as usual, /usr/lib/R/doc/NEWS.html
- This is mostly a bugfix release and the final release for the
R-2.x.y series.
- Most important additions:
NEW FEATURES:
o lgamma(x) for very small x (in the denormalized range) is no
longer Inf with a warning.
o image() now sorts an unsorted breaks vector, with a warning.
o The internal methods for tar() and untar() do a slightly more
general job for 'ustar'-style handling of paths of more than 100
bytes.
o Packages compiler and parallel have been added to the reference
index (refman.pdf).
o untar(tar = "internal") has some support for pax headers as
produced by e.g. gnutar --posix (which seems prevalent on
OpenSUSE 12.2) or bsdtar --format pax, including long path and
link names.
o sQuote() and dQuote() now handle 0-length inputs. (Suggestion of
Ben Bolker.)
o summaryRprof() returns zero-row data frames rather than throw an
error if no events are recorded, for consistency.
o The included version of PCRE has been updated to 8.32.
o The tcltk namespace can now be re-loaded after unloading.
The Tcl/Tk event loop is inhibited in a forked child from package
parallel (as in e.g. mclapply()).
o parallel::makeCluster() recognizes the value random for the
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- repeated submission. The WebUI seems to alter the name of the package.
- Now submitting via command line "osc sr" out of freshly checked out
- working copy.
- corrected version string for Matrix subpackage
- removed 4 warnings about unescaped macros in comments
- explicitly added some locale directories. Worked before implicitly.
- update to upstream version 2.13.2
- see, as usual, /usr/lib/R/doc/NEWS.html for details.
- Remove redundant tags/sections from specfile
- Use %_smp_mflags for parallel build
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- resolved some conflicts for R-base.spec after osc up -e && osc pull
- corrected version string in R-base.spec
- Upstream updated to 2.13.1. Licence change from GPLv2 to GPLv2 || GPLv3.
Packages rpart and survival now GPLed, too.
Various minor bugfixes.
See /usr/lib/R/doc/NEWS.html for details.
- Removed possible dangerous links of libraries. R`s internal
libraries now are only available in $lib/R/lib .
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