2024-03-25: CHANGES IN R-devel NEW FEATURES * Licence headers for the RPC code in ‘src/extra/xdr’ have been updated to use the GPL-compatible licence published by Oracle America in 2010. CHANGES IN R-devel INSTALLATION on WINDOWS … dlvr.it/T4yrsW

2024-03-26: CHANGES IN R-devel INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE * The minimum ‘autoconf’ requirement for a maintainer build has been increased to ‘autoconf’ 2.71. It is intended to increase this to 2.72 for R 4.5.0: the distributed ‘configure’… dlvr.it/T4yrsY

2024-03-27: CHANGES IN R-devel NEW FEATURES * Licence headers for the RPC code in ‘src/extra/xdr’ have been updated to use the GPL-compatible licence published by Oracle America in 2010. New function ‘pkg2HTML()’ in ‘tools’ to create… dlvr.it/T4yrsZ

2024-03-28: CHANGES IN R 4.4.0 SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES * Startup banners, ‘R --version’, ‘sessionInfo()’ and ‘R CMD check’ no longer report ‘(64-bit)’ as part of the platform as this is almost universal - the increasingly rare 32-bit… dlvr.it/T4yrsc

2024-03-29: CHANGES IN R 4.4.0 NEW FEATURES * The byte code evaluator now uses less C stack space for recursive calls to byte-compiled functions. It also makes more of an effort to avoid allocations for scalar return values. dlvr.it/T4yrsd

2023-12-19: CHANGES IN R 4.3.2 patched BUG FIXES * ‘drop.terms(*)’ keeps ‘ + offset(.)’ terms when it should, PR#18565, and ‘drop.terms()’ no longer makes up a response, PR#18566, fixing both bugs thanks to Mikael Jagan. * Computations… dlvr.it/T4z4WK

2023-12-24: CHANGES IN R 4.3.2 patched DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT * The legacy ‘encoding = "MacRoman"’ is deprecated in ‘pdf()’, ‘postscript()’. dlvr.it/T4z4Wc

2023-12-25: CHANGES IN R-devel SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES * Startup banners, ‘R --version’, ‘sessionInfo()’ and ‘R CMD check’ no longer report ‘(64-bit)’ as part of the platform as this is almost universal - the increasingly rare 32-bit… dlvr.it/T4z4Wg

2024-01-17: CHANGES IN R-devel SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES * Startup banners, ‘R --version’, ‘sessionInfo()’ and ‘R CMD check’ no longer report ‘(64-bit)’ as part of the platform as this is almost universal - the increasingly rare 32-bit… dlvr.it/T4z4X2

2024-01-24: CHANGES IN R 4.3.2 patched BUG FIXES * ‘rank(x)’ no longer overflows during integer addition, when computing rank average for largish but not-yet long vector ‘x’, fixing PR#18630, thanks to Ilia Kats. * ‘cov2cor()’ now works,… dlvr.it/T4z4XQ

2024-02-16: CHANGES IN R 4.3.2 patched BUG FIXES * ‘cov2cor()’ now works, fixing PR#18423 thanks to Mikael Jagan and Elin Waring. dlvr.it/T4z4Xb

2024-02-19: CHANGES IN R 4.3.3 NEW FEATURES * ‘iconv()’ now fixes up variant encoding names such as ‘"utf8"’ case-insensitively. CHANGES IN R 4.3.3 DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT * The legacy ‘encoding = "MacRoman"’ is deprecated in… dlvr.it/T4z4Xk

2024-02-20: CHANGES IN R 4.3.3 BUG FIXES * ‘pbeta(x, a,b)’ is correct now for ‘x’=0 or 1 in the boundary cases where ‘a’ or ‘b’ or both are 0, fixing PR#18672 thanks to Michael Fay. * ‘pmatch(x, table)’ for large ‘table’, also called for… dlvr.it/T4z4Xp

2024-02-21: CHANGES IN R 4.3.3 BUG FIXES * ‘predict(, newdata=*)’ fix computing of ‘nbasis’, see Russ Lenth's comment 29 in PR#16158. dlvr.it/T4z4Xs

2024-02-22: CHANGES IN R 4.3.3 BUG FIXES * Added a work-around for a bug in macOS 14.3.1 and higher which prevents R plots in the Quartz Cocoa device from updating on screen. dlvr.it/T4z4Xz

2024-04-03: CHANGES IN R 4.4.0 INSTALLATION * The parser has been updated to work with ‘bison’ 3.8.2, which is now used for the pre-generated parsers in ‘gram.c’, ‘file.c’, and ‘gramRd.c’. A few parser error messages have changed, which may… dlvr.it/T50GdB

2024-04-04: CHANGES IN R 4.4.0 NEW FEATURES * New function ‘pkg2HTML()’ in ‘tools’ to create single-page HTML reference manuals for R packages. * Licence headers for the RPC code in ‘src/extra/xdr’ have been updated to use the… dlvr.it/T52tHW

2024-04-07: CHANGES IN R 4.4.0 NEW FEATURES * New completion option ‘backtick’ (disabled by default) allows non-syntactic completions to be wrapped in backquotes. This is currently only useful for Jupyter notebooks via the ‘IRkernel’ package,… dlvr.it/T59yNl

R on 64-bit ARM Windows: R 4.4.0, to be released tomorrow, comes with experimental native support for 64-bit ARM Windows machines (aarch64, arm64). Rtools44 with native support for the platform has been released at the beginning of March. The effort to… dlvr.it/T5xBS6

Generalizing Support for Functional OOP in R: Generalizing Support for Functional OOP in R R has built-in support for two functional Object Oriented Programming (OOP) systems: S3 and S4, corresponding to the third and fourth version of the S language,… dlvr.it/T7MvbP