I've rolled up R-1.7.1.tgz a short while ago. This is a patch version mainly fixing up an assortment of issues (see below). Note also that it comes with an updated set of recommended packages, fixing a couple of nasty issues in at least foreign and nlme.
You can get it from http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/R-1.7.1.tgz or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you. Binaries for various platforms will appear in due course. There is also a version split for floppies. These are the md5sums for the freshly created files, in case you wish to check that they are uncorrupted: 833c2a9a62818211f2f9f0353ecd9bbd R-1.7.1.tgz 0c3029b42f8eba12cc9acab6f28196dc R-1.7.1.tgz-split.aa 3aafef440adfa65d1dd34b50399736d2 R-1.7.1.tgz-split.ab 388544d79c50b294783838ff8d3646e2 R-1.7.1.tgz-split.ac f1f6e913030568b3416b9fe09d486aa6 R-1.7.1.tgz-split.ad 191cfeb78a2f98f084def26b4716e3ed R-1.7.1.tgz-split.ae 73cf3ede9066716568219a8b13765fcf R-1.7.1.tgz-split.af 65dc2729eaa13e91e867b2624cb80e11 R-1.7.1.tgz-split.ag For the R Core Team, Peter D. Here's the relevant part of the NEWS file: CHANGES IN R VERSION 1.7.1 NEW FEATURES o The help pages give appropriate references to the Blue, White or Green books for functions based on the descriptions of S functions given there. (E&OE) o Function getAnywhere() can find non-exported objects, for namespaces or registered methods. DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT o The (unimplemented) argument 'white' of parse() is deprecated. o The tkfilefind demo in the tcltk library is deprecated, since it never worked well, and apparently not at all with Tcl/Tk 8.4. BUG FIXES o print.table() used too much white space in some cases in 1.7.0. o selectMethod() failed if `f' was a non-generic and optional=TRUE, and gave a confusing error message if optional=FALSE. o pchisq(*, ncp) and qchisq(*, ncp) work in more cases for large ncp or quantile and give warning or error messages otherwise. o str(x) now also works when x is an "externalptr" (or "weakref"). o rbeta(), rf(), and rt() now support infinite parameter values; other distributions return NaN instead of NA for such. o Redefining a class is now safer if the new definition generates an error (previously some invalid metadata could be left behind). o A number of errors are now caught in setClass() that previously either went unchecked or waited until new() to appear: - classes may not contain themselves, directly or indirectly; - classes appearing either as slots or as superclasses must themselves be defined; - slot names (direct or inherited) must be unique. In related changes, prototype() now works as documented, and is the recommended way to provide prototype objects. o Sorting an ordered factor would return an unordered one. This caused some trouble with panel.superpose (PR#974). o methods() could return duplicates if a method in a namespace was both exported and registered. o The internal zip.unpack() could crash if more than 500 files were to be extracted. (PR#2818) o The "r+" and "r+b" modes of opening file connections disallowed writing. o library() now warns the user if the chosen package name doesn't match the internal package name, and corrects the error. (PR#2816) o qr(LAPACK=TRUE) (and qr for complex arguments) might have failed to pivot for rank-deficient inputs. (PR#2867) o Only re-mapped symbols are exported by regex.o, to avoid problems with embedded R on RedHat 9. o arima() did not set transform.pars to FALSE if AR parameters were fixed, although it claimed to. o pnorm() was slower than necessary in the outer tails in some cases due to a typo in the improvements from PR#699. (PR#2883) o setGeneric() and setMethod() now catch some examples where the generic and the method have different argument lists; the evaluator checks for internal consistency of these argument lists. o expand.grid(x) {the rare case of one argument} now treats factor levels as in the typical case of two or more arguments. o Some implicit coercions to lists could cause segfaults, e.g. x <- matrix(nrow=20000, ncol=20); x$any <- numeric(0) due to a PROTECT bug. (PR#2923) o The replacement functions for colnames() and rownames() did not work for arrays with more than two dimensions. They could create dimnames of the form list(NULL, NULL) rather than remove the dimnames attribute. o termplot() gave incorrect answers with rug=TRUE or partial=TRUE for factors whose levels were not in lexicographical order. o A serious performance flaw in as() computations was fixed (the methods were not being cached properly.) o model.frame(~1, data) always returned 1 row. (PR#2958) o The data editor was truncating objects to 65535 rows. Pro tem, editing objects with more than 65535 rows is an error, and objects cannot be extended beyond that row. This restriction will be removed in 1.8.0. (PR#2962) o A bug could produce apparent loops in formal method selection when inheritance was restricted (used for the as() function). A related problem sometimes broke attaching a package that had methods for basic functions, such as names(), used in method selection. o Empty expressions as in return(x,) could generate subsequent segfaults: they are now errors. (PR#2880) o The Kinderman-Ramage Normal Random Generator had several problems leading to not-quite normally distributed variates (PR#2846). One problem was traced to an error in the original 1976 JASA paper! Thanks to Josef Leydold and his team for investigating this. The old generator has been retained for reproducibility of older results, under the name "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage". A warning is issued if you select it (also indirectly via RNGversion()). o promptMethods() now puts the \alias lines for methods in the normal place, near the top of the file, and quotes class names in signatures. o getS3method() and methods() were not finding methods for coefficients() and fitted.values() (which dispatch on "coef" and "fitted" respectively). o scan() (and hence read.table) was not finding matches for separator chars with the upper bit set. (PR#3035) o lm.(w)fit failed if the fit had rank 0. o lqs() did not report explicitly that it had failed if all samples gave singular fits. o predict.lm(*, se=TRUE) {w/ weights, w/o newdata} now gives correct SE's. (PR#3043) o cor.test(x, y, method="spearman") now also works for length(x) > 1290. o Matrices were printed mis-aligned if right=TRUE and na.print was specified. (PR#3058) o R CMD check gives now a clearer message when latex produces errors on the package manual. (PR#3070) o isSeekable() was incorrectly returning FALSE on all file connections. o tkpager() wasn't quite using its title and header arguments in the way prescribed by file.show() o legend(*, pch=p, lty=l) now works better when `p' or `l' have NAs. o All braces in regular expressions used by Sweave() are now escaped by a backslash. o unloadNamespace() failed because getNamespaceImports() now coerces a string argument to a name space. o deriv3 gave incorrect Hessians for some very simple expressions such as expression(x*y) (since the comments in the C code were incorrect). (PR#2577) o power.t.test(..., delta=NULL,alternative='two.sided') failed. (PR#2993) o Lines on postscript() plots with thousands of segments might have been plotted inaccurately in 1.7.0. (PR#3132) Solid lines in postscript() output are split into groups of 1000 segments to help some PostScript interpreters (typically old level-1 interpreters). o cut.POSIXt failed when the breaks were date/time objects. (PR#3181) o Usage of methods in dist.Rd is now correctly documented (as.matrix.dist() is not an exported symbol). o The predict() method for ar fits was not retrieving the series from the parent environment. o eigen() and La.eigen() were not returning a matrix of eigenvectors for a 1x1 input. o hsv() and rgb() now return character(0) when one of their args has length 0. This also fixes terrain.color(1). (PR#3233) o [[<-.data.frame checked if a replacment was too short, but not if it was too long. (related to PR#3229) o qt(x, df) was quite inaccurate for df=1+epsilon; it is now much more accurate for df in (1,2) and more precise for other df. (PR#2991) o qbeta() now has slightly improved C code in two places, as suggested in the 2nd followup to PR#2894. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. 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