I've rolled up R-2.4.1.tar.gz a short while ago. This is a maintenance release and fixes a number of mostly minor bugs. See the full list of changes below.
You can get it (in a short while) from http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.4.1.tar.gz or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you. Binaries for various platforms will appear in due course. For the R Core Team Peter Dalgaard These are the md5sums for the freshly created files, in case you wish to check that they are uncorrupted: a8efde35b940278de19730d326f58449 AUTHORS eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a COPYING a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343 COPYING.LIB 62b256c4a06aeed7401c9430f1e41d0f FAQ 70447ae7f2c35233d3065b004aa4f331 INSTALL 06f14fbf950fbc7df31028344c78163b NEWS 88bbd6781faedc788a1cbd434194480c ONEWS 4f004de59e24a52d0f500063b4603bcb OONEWS 92b33fd2c3e770d595c1a472889230d5 R-2.4.1.tar.gz 92b33fd2c3e770d595c1a472889230d5 R-latest.tar.gz 433182754c05c2cf7a04ad0da474a1d0 README 020479f381d5f9038dcb18708997f5da RESOURCES 4eaf8a3e428694523edc16feb0140206 THANKS Here is the relevant bit of the NEWS file: CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.4.1 INSTALLATION o The extraction of info from Subversion for an SVN checkout now also works for svn >= 1.4.0. However, on Windows the 'Last Changed Date' will be in the local timezone, and not in GMT as previously. o configure uses code borrowed from autoconf 2.60 to try harder to ensure that a C99-compliant compiler is used. (It does so by appending to CC.) This avoids problems with systems such as FC5 which override CFLAGS and thereby lose flags such as -std=gnu99. NEW FEATURES o rainbow(), heat.colors(), terrain.colors(), topo.colors() and cm.colors() all gain an 'alpha' argument to be passed to hsv(). o dput() will give an incorrect representation of the row names of a data frame with integer row names. This is now corrected when the object is recreated. C-LEVEL FACILITIES o Using STRICT_R_HEADERS applies to more reported clashes with Windows headers, including Calloc and Realloc. These and Free need to be prefixed by R_ when STRICT_R_HEADERS is defined. DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT o The previously undocumented behaviour of structure() in adding a class when specifying "tsp" or "levels" attributes is now deprecated (with a warning). BUG FIXES o Fixed warning() to use .dfltWarn intead of .dfltStop for default handling (PR#9274). o R would slow down when the product of the length of a vector and the length of a character vector used to subset it exceeded 2^31. (PR#9280) o merge() now allows zero-row data frames. o add1.lm() had been broken by other changes for weighted fits. o axis.POSIXct() would sometimes give the wrong labels. o Help for a method call would fail. (PR#9291) o gzfile() returned an object of class "file" not "gzfile". (PR#9271) o load()ing from a connection had a logic bug in when it closed the connection. (PR#9271) o The lowess() algorithm is unstable if the MAD of the residuals becomes (effectively) zero: R now terminates the iterations at that point. (This may result in quite different answers.) The 'delta' argument was incorrectly documented. (PR#9264) o abbreviate() would only work for strings of up to 8191 bytes, but this was not checked. Now longer strings are errors. o Drawing X11 rotated text was buggy for VERY small (negative) angle of rotation. Reported by Ben Bolker. (PR#9301) o The X11 data editor would crash in an MBCS locale if R was compiled with FC's CFLAGS that add buffer overflow and stack-smashing detection. o rect() was not accepting border=NA in some cases involving cross-hatching. o Fixes to S4 group generics to ensure that the correct number of active arguments are in the signature of the group and all members. Also a fix to keep the 'groupMembers' slot up to date. o S4 group generic "Logic" (with '&', '|', but not '!') has been created, following the green book (apart from '!'). o removeClass() now takes care to remove any subclass references to the deleted class. o mle() (in stats4) might not have worked as intended when the order of parameters in 'start' differed from that in the log-likelihood. (PR#9313) o dotchart() now properly restores par() settings after itself. o system() on Mac OS X was blocking arbitrary signals during the call although only SIGPROF was meant to be blocked. o methods cached via callNextMethod() and (sometimes) as() were being cached as directly specified although in fact they were inherited. Caused problems in later search for inherited methods. o str() works properly for method definitions and other S4-classed function objects. o JAVA_LIBS are now set correctly on MacOS X. o Fix null-termination issue suspected of causing crash with Fedora Extra RPMS (PR#9339, Justin Harrington, analysis and fix from Bill Dunlap). o Namespaces restored via a saved session silently failed to cache their methods because the methods package was not yet attached. Fixed by attaching methods before restoring data. o rbind()ing a list to a data frame generated invalid row names, which were an error in 2.4.0. (PR#9346) o boxplot.stats(x) now returns the correct minimum instead of an error for x <- c(1,Inf,Inf,Inf), and hence boxplot(x) "works". o promptClass() now uses \linkS4class{<ClassName>} instead of of \link{<ClassName>-class}. o gc() no longer reports nonsense values for the number of used Vcells if the true value exceeds 2^31 (and hence over 16Gb of heap is in use): it now reports NA. (PR#9345) o rapply() now detects more user errors in supplying arguments. (PR#9349) o boxplot() was ignoring argument 'boxfill'. (PR#9352) o plot.lm(which = 6, id.n = 0) did not work. (PR#9333) o .deparseOpts("delayPromises") was not matching the C code, returning 64 rather than 32. o bxp() could use partial matching on 'pars' when finding defaults for some of its parameters, e.g. a setting of 'cex.axis' in 'pars' or inline was used to set a default for 'outcex'. o acf() now allows lag.max = 0 except when type="partial", and forces the lag 0 autocorrelation to 1. (PR#9360) o hist(*, include.lowest=., right=., plot=FALSE) does not warn anymore, (PR#9356) and more. o Some bugs in caching superclass/subclass relations and in removing those relations on detach and on removeClass() have been fixed. o readBin() could return one too many strings if 'n' was an over-estimate. (PR#9361) o A request for an opaque colour in the pdf() device after a translucent one did not set the transparency back to opaque in 2.4.0. Semi-transparent background colours were not being plotted on the pdf() device. o plot.lm(which=5) in the case of constant leverage re-ordered the factor levels but not the residuals, so the labelling by factor level was often incorrect. o packBits() was not accepting a logical argument. (PR#9374) o make install was omitting doc/FAQ and doc/RESOURCES. o A two-sample t.test(x, y, var.equal=TRUE) did not allow one of the groups to be of size one. o The "ts" method for print() failed on some corrupted objects of class "ts", e.g. those without a "tsp" attribute. o structure() reordered the "class" value given if there was a "tsp" value specified. o pairs() now does pass appropriate parts of '...' to the 'diag.panel' argument. (PR#9384) o plot.lm() was using an incorrect estimate of dispersion for some GLMs (including family=binomial and family=poisson). (PR#9316) o Subsetting operators were setting R_Visible too early, so assignments in arguments could make the result invisible. (PR#9263) o The tk-GUI was displaying a warning due to an extra comma in the list of manuals (PR#9396) o packageDescription() now gives an explicit error on a corrupt DESCRIPTION file. o There was a scoping issue with tcltk callbacks given as unevaluated expressions. This has only been partially fixed, a complete fix probably requires redesign. o trace() had its return value documented incorrectly and was sometimes visible when it should not have been. o pchisq() would sometimes use the wrong tail when calculating non-central probabilities with lower.tail = FALSE. (PR#9406) o rm() could remove the wrong objects when passed an expression. (PR#9399) Now only names are allowed in the '...' argument, and the incorrect documentation of what happened with character objects is corrected. o url() was not supporting 'encoding' except on file:// URLs. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-announce ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
