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From: pd@me@ @end|ng |rom cb@@dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:23:22 +0000
Subject: [Rd] R 3.6.2 is released
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It is possible that this means that it is the intention to port the changes from R-devel to 3.6.2 patched once 3.6.2 is out. In that case, you can be pretty sure that the changes are NOT in 3.6.2 (and actually not in 3.6.2 patched either -- yet). 

If so, you have provided a nice illustration of why I keep telling people not to do that...

-pd 

> On 12 Dec 2019, at 18:05 , Avraham Adler <avraham.adler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you. 
> 
> I apologize for not providing the link. [1] Under the news for R-revel there is a single entry for R 3.6.2-patched. 
> 
> The file I downloaded was [2] with a date of 2019-12-12 01:50. 
> 
> Is it safe to say that 3.6.2 has the LAPACK upgrades and fixes?
> 
> Apologies in advance if iOS links the URL below. I cannot access gmail desktop from behind my corporate firewall. 
> 
> Thank you again,
> 
> Avi
> 
> [1] 
> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/NEWS.html
> [2] 
> https://stat.ethz.ch/R/daily/R-patched.tar.gz
> 
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 11:10 AM Peter Dalgaard <pd.mes at cbs.dk> wrote:
> It is not obvious what it is that you are calling "R-patched", nor where there could be an entry for "3.6.2 patched".
> 
> The prerelease/patched versions are snapshots of R-3-6-branch made at 00:20 so the current one will have been made before the release version run started at 09:00 this morning, and hence the nightly tarball will be of the release candidate. However it will not be called R-patched:
> 
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 pd  staff        29 Dec 12 00:20 R-latest.tar.gz -> R-rc_2019-12-06_r77555.tar.gz
> 
> The current version in SVN differs only by the VERSION file. Its NEWS.Rd starts
> 
> Peters-MacBook-Air:R pd$ more VERSION
> 3.6.2 Patched
> Peters-MacBook-Air:R pd$ more doc/NEWS.Rd
> % -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> \newcommand{\Rlogo}{\if{html}{\figure{../../html/Rlogo.svg}{options: class="toplogo" alt="[R logo]"}}\if{latex}{\figure{Rlogo.pdf}{options: width=0.5in}}}
> 
> \name{NEWS}
> \title{R News}
> \encoding{UTF-8}
> 
> \section{\Rlogo CHANGES IN R 3.6.2}{
> 
>   \subsection{NEW FEATURES}{
>     \itemize{
>   ....
> 
> and any changes for 3.6.2 patched should go above the entries for 3.6.2.
> 
> - pd
> 
> 
> > On 12 Dec 2019, at 16:34 , Avraham Adler <avraham.adler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi. 
> > 
> > Under R-news there is an entry for 3.6.2 patched regarding LAPACK. However, when uncompresding the current R-patched, it creates R-Rc directories. Is this a naming oversight or is the patched version actually the unadjusted release candidate?
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > Avi
> > 
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 4:58 AM Peter Dalgaard via R-devel <r-devel at r-project.org> wrote:
> > The build system rolled up R-3.6.2.tar.gz (codename "Dark and Stormy Night") this morning.
> > 
> > The list below details the changes in this release.
> > 
> > You can get the source code from
> > 
> > http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.6.2.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 checksums (md5 and SHA-256) for the freshly created files, in case you wish
> > to check that they are uncorrupted:
> > 
> > MD5 (AUTHORS) = b9c44f9f78cab3184ad9898bebc854b4
> > MD5 (COPYING) = eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a
> > MD5 (COPYING.LIB) = a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343
> > MD5 (FAQ) = 28a3942a7129877e9af1d5ea16202052
> > MD5 (INSTALL) = 7893f754308ca31f1ccf62055090ad7b
> > MD5 (NEWS) = 45437b38c75e0248b527c00e6d42ee6a
> > MD5 (NEWS.0) = bfcd7c147251b5474d96848c6f57e5a8
> > MD5 (NEWS.1) = eb78c4d053ec9c32b815cf0c2ebea801
> > MD5 (NEWS.2) = 591dcf615162127f904e4e461f330ce9
> > MD5 (R-latest.tar.gz) = 90d23d138cee26d275da14b58296e521
> > MD5 (README) = f468f281c919665e276a1b691decbbe6
> > MD5 (RESOURCES) = 529223fd3ffef95731d0a87353108435
> > MD5 (THANKS) = bb45f89c01d509721c47fd41f147da60
> > MD5 (VERSION-INFO.dcf) = 9c33701e25092aefc1d16beb5858f20f
> > MD5 (R-3/R-3.6.2.tar.gz) = 90d23d138cee26d275da14b58296e521
> > 
> > 
> > 2cde824a7b18958e5f06b391c801c8288be0f84fa8934b7ddefef23c67e60c09  AUTHORS
> > e6d6a009505e345fe949e1310334fcb0747f28dae2856759de102ab66b722cb4  COPYING
> > 6095e9ffa777dd22839f7801aa845b31c9ed07f3d6bf8a26dc5d2dec8ccc0ef3  COPYING.LIB
> > 38219d9c6221ccfbf075ef03711b420a1aa8731f890c8f2337148b602a217c2d  FAQ
> > f87461be6cbaecc4dce44ac58e5bd52364b0491ccdadaf846cb9b452e9550f31  INSTALL
> > 0ceb6fbab3e0e29bc374683fd5c2ccd0c9c62ce8eca2a394a4603775b3ef129c  NEWS
> > 4e21b62f515b749f80997063fceab626d7258c7d650e81a662ba8e0640f12f62  NEWS.0
> > 12b30c724117b1b2b11484673906a6dcd48a361f69fc420b36194f9218692d01  NEWS.1
> > ca04f78ffe54afa326fe3ed40e7e1411aca0000ed2fa5ead97ddf51c6aa5b7bc  NEWS.2
> > bd65a45cddfb88f37370fbcee4ac8dd3f1aebeebe47c2f968fd9770ba2bbc954  R-latest.tar.gz
> > 2fdd3e90f23f32692d4b3a0c0452f2c219a10882033d1774f8cadf25886c3ddc  README
> > 408737572ecc6e1135fdb2cf7a9dbb1a6cb27967c757f1771b8c39d1fd2f1ab9  RESOURCES
> > 2a8dca916cd92229ef9e328f3610ca204809c262823b860252b42072dac2473a  THANKS
> > 40cc7cea5f0e67cf8f2f7b25a534ae6bc53f38eae2ab2c2649a952ed37f0654a  VERSION-INFO.dcf
> > bd65a45cddfb88f37370fbcee4ac8dd3f1aebeebe47c2f968fd9770ba2bbc954  R-3/R-3.6.2.tar.gz
> > 
> > This is the relevant part of the NEWS file
> > 
> > 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
> >       (only) OpenMP on a platform where the Fortran OpenMP runtime is
> >       incompatible with the C one (e.g. gfortran 9.x with clang).
> > 
> >   UTILITIES:
> > 
> >     * R CMD check has a new option to mitigate checks leaving
> >       files/directories in /tmp.  See the 'R Internals' manual - this
> >       is part of --as-cran.
> > 
> >   Windows:
> > 
> >     * The default standard for C++ in package installation is C++11 (as
> >       it has been on other platforms where available since R 3.6.0: the
> >       default toolchain on Windows was defaulting to C++98).
> > 
> >   DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT:
> > 
> >     * Support for specifying C++98 in package installation is
> >       deprecated.
> > 
> >     * Support in R CMD config for F77, FCPIFCPLAGS, CPP, CXXCPP and
> >       CXX98 and similar is deprecated.  (CPP is found from the system
> >       make and may well not be set.)
> > 
> >       Use $CC -E and $CXX -E instead of CPP and CXXCPP.
> > 
> >   BUG FIXES:
> > 
> >     * runmed(x, *) when x contains missing values now works
> >       consistently for both algorithm="Stuetzle" and "Turlach", and no
> >       longer segfaults for "Turlach", as reported by Hilmar Berger.
> > 
> >     * apply(diag(3), 2:3, mean) now gives a helpful error message.
> > 
> >     * dgamma(x, shape, log=TRUE) now longer overflows to Inf for shape
> >       < 1 and very small x, fixing PR#17577, reported by Jonathan
> >       Rougier.
> > 
> >     * Buffer overflow in building error messages fixed. Reported by
> >       Benjamin Tremblay.
> > 
> >     * options(str = .) is correctly initialized at package utils load
> >       time, now.  A consequence is that str() in scripts now is more
> >       consistent to interactive use, e.g., when displaying function(**)
> >       argument lists.
> > 
> >     * as.numeric(<call>) now gives correct error message.
> > 
> >     * Printing ls.str() no longer wrongly shows "<missing>" in rare
> >       cases.
> > 
> >     * Auto-printing S4 objects no longer duplicates the object, for
> >       faster speed and reduced memory consumption. Reported by Aaron
> >       Lun.
> > 
> >     * pchisq(<LRG>, <LRG>, ncp=100) no longer takes practically forever
> >       in some cases.  Hence ditto for corresponding qchisq() calls.
> > 
> >     * x %% L for finite x no longer returns NaN when L is infinite, nor
> >       suffers from cancellation for large finite L, thanks to Long Qu's
> >       PR#17611.
> > 
> >       Analogously, x %/% L and L %/% x suffer less from cancellation
> >       and return values corresponding to limits for large L.
> > 
> >     * grepl(NA, *) now returns logical as documented.
> > 
> >     * options(warn=1e11) is an error now, instead of later leading to C
> >       stack overflow because of infinite recursion.
> > 
> >     * R_tryCatch no longer transfers control for all conditions.
> >       Reported and patch provided by Lionel Henry in PR#17617.
> > 
> >     * format(object.size(.), digits=NULL) now works, fixing PR#17628
> >       reported by Jonathan Carroll.
> > 
> >     * get_all_vars(f, d) now also works for cases, e.g. where d
> >       contains a matrix.  Reported by Simon Wood in 2009 and patch
> >       provided by Ben Bolker in PR#13624.
> > 
> >       Additionally, it now also works when some variables are data
> >       frames, fixing PR#14905, reported by Patrick Breheny.
> > 
> >     * barplot() could get spacings wrong if there were exactly two bars
> >       PR#15522.  Patch by Michael Chirico.
> > 
> >     * power.t.test() works in more cases when returning values of n
> >       smaller than 2.
> > 
> >     * dotchart(*, pch=., groups=.) now works better.  Reported by
> >       Robert and confirmed by Nic Rochette in PR#16953.
> > 
> >     * canCoerce(obj, cl) no longer assumes length(class(obj)) == 1.
> > 
> >     * plot.formula(*, subset = *) now also works in a boundary case
> >       reported by Robert Schlicht (TU Dresden).
> > 
> >     * readBin() and writeBin() of a rawConnection() now also work in
> >       large cases, thanks to a report and proposal by Taeke Harkema in
> >       PR#17665.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
> > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
> > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
> > Phone: (+45)38153501
> > Office: A 4.23
> > Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
> > 
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> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
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> Office: A 4.23
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[Rd] R 3.6.2 is released
Peter Dalgaard