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From gregory_r_warnes at groton.pfizer.com Wed Nov 27 15:54:06 2002
From: gregory_r_warnes at groton.pfizer.com (Warnes, Gregory R)
Date: Wed Nov 27 15:54:06 2002
Subject: R genetics package now available
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
The "genetics" package for handling single-locus genetic data is now
available on CRAN in both source and Windows binary formats. The purpose of
this package is to make it easy to create and manipulate genetic
information, and to facility use of this information in statistical models.
The library includes classes and methods for creating, representing, and
manipulating genotypes (unordered allele pairs) and haplotypes (ordered
allele pairs). Genotypes and
haplotypes can be annotated with chromosome, locus, gene, and marker
information. Utility functions compute genotype and allele frequencies, flag
homozygotes or heterozygotes, flag allele carriers
of certain alleles, count the number of a specific allele carried by an
individual, extract one or both alleles, estimate and generate confidence
intervals for measures of single-marker disequlibrium, and test for
departure from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
The package description file and a simple example are appended below.
Comments and contributions are, of course, welcome.
-Greg
DESCRIPTION
===========
Package: genetics
Title: Population Genetics
Version: 0.6.4
Date: 2002-11-13
Author: Gregory Warnes and Friedrich Leisch
Maintainer: Gregory Warnes <gregory_r_warnes at groton.pfizer.com>
Depends: combinat
Description: Classes and methods for handling genetic data. Includes
classes to represent genotypes and haplotypes at single
markers up to multiple markers on multiple chromosomes.
Function include allele frequencies, flagging
homo/heterozygotes, flagging carriers of certain alleles,
computing disequlibrium, testing Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium,
...
License: GPL
Built: R 1.6.0; sparc-sun-solaris2.8; Tue Nov 12 15:43:20 EST 2002
Index:
HWE.test Estimate Disequlibrium and Test for
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
ci.balance Experimental Function to Correct Confidence
Intervals At or Near Boundaries of the
Parameter Space by 'Sliding' the Interval on
the Quantile Scale.
diseq Estimate or Compute Confidence Interval for the
Disequlibrium Parameter
genotype Genotype or Haplotype Objects.
homozygote Extract Features of Genotype objects
locus Create and Manipulate Locus, Gene, and Marker
Objects
summary.genotype Allele and Genotype Frequency from a Genotype
or Haplotype Object
undocumented Undocumented functions
SIMPLE EXAMPLE
==============
Attaching package `genetics':
The following object(s) are masked from package:base :
as.factor
> ## Create a sample dataset with 3 SNP markers
>
> g1 <- sample( x=c('C/C', 'C/T', 'T/T'),
+ prob=c(.6,.2,.2), 20, replace=T)
> g2 <- sample( x=c('A/A', 'A/G', 'G/G'),
+ prob=c(.6,.1,.5), 20, replace=T)
> g3 <- sample( x=c('C/C', 'C/T', 'T/T'),
+ prob=c(.2,.4, 4), 20, replace=T)
>
> y <- rnorm(20) + (g1=='C/C') +
+ 0.25 * (g2=='A/A' | g2=='A/G')
>
> ## Form into a data frame
> data <- data.frame( y, g1, g2, g3)
>
> # Create marker labels for the data
[...]
> a1691g <- marker(name="A1691G",
+ type="SNP",
+ locus.name="MBP2",
+ chromosome=9,
+ arm="q",
+ index.start=35,
+ bp.start=1691,
+ relative.to="intron 1")
>
>
[...]
>
> data$g1 <- genotype(data$g1, locus=c104t)
> data$g2 <- genotype(data$g2, locus=a1691g)
> data$g3 <- genotype(data$g3, locus=c2249t)
>
> data
y g1 g2 g3
1 -0.084796634 T/T G/G T/C
2 1.454537575 C/C G/G T/T
3 -0.899625344 T/T G/G T/T
4 -1.980679630 C/T A/A T/T
5 0.231087028 C/T A/A T/T
6 2.588083646 C/C A/A T/C
7 0.209338731 C/C A/A T/T
8 1.435823157 C/T G/G T/T
9 -0.078796949 C/C G/G T/T
10 -2.091110058 C/T A/A T/T
11 -0.842655686 C/T G/G T/T
12 1.316828279 C/C G/G T/T
13 0.470126626 C/T A/A T/T
14 -0.364828611 T/T G/A T/T
15 -0.002438264 C/T A/A T/C
16 0.949432430 C/C G/G T/T
17 -0.096626850 C/T G/A T/T
18 1.065637984 T/T A/A T/T
19 0.817213289 C/C A/A T/T
20 0.644714638 C/T G/G T/T
>
> data$g2
Marker: MBP2:A1691G (9q35:1691) Type: SNP
[1] "G/G" "G/G" "G/G" "A/A" "A/A" "A/A" "A/A" "G/G" "G/G" "A/A" "G/G" "G/G"
[13] "A/A" "G/A" "A/A" "G/G" "G/A" "A/A" "A/A" "G/G"
Alleles: G A
>
> summary(data$g2)
Marker: MBP2:A1691G (9q35:1691) Type: SNP
Allele Frequency:
Count Proportion
A 20 0.5
G 20 0.5
Genotype Frequency:
Count Proportion
A/A 9 0.45
G/A 2 0.10
G/G 9 0.45
> HWE.test(data$g2)
-----------------------------------
Test for Hardy-Wienburg-Equilibrium
-----------------------------------
Call:
HWE.test.genotype(x = data$g2)
Raw Disequlibrium for each allele pair (D)
G A
G -0.2
A -0.2
Scaled Disequlibrium for each allele pair (D')
G A
G -0.8
A -0.8
Correlation coefficient for each allele pair (r)
G A
G 1.0 0.8
A 0.8 1.0
Overall Values (mean absolute-value weighted by expected allele frequency)
Value
D -0.2
D' -0.8
r 0.8
Confidence intervals computed via bootstrap using 1000 samples
Observed 95% CI NA's Contains Zero?
Overall D -0.2000000 (-0.2475000, -0.1093750) 0 *NO*
Overall D' -0.8000000 (-1.0000000, -0.4666667) 0 *NO*
Overall r 0.8000000 ( 0.4666667, 1.0000000) 0 *NO*
Significance Test:
Pearson's Chi-squared test with simulated p-value (based on 10000
replicates)
data: data$g2
X-squared = 12.8, df = NA, p-value = 7e-04
>
> summary(lm( y ~ homozygote(g1,'C') +
allele.count(g2, 'G') +
+ g3, data=data))
+
Call:
lm(formula = y ~ homozygote(g1, "C") + allele.count(g2, "G") +
g3, data = data)
Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-1.6686 -0.6625 -0.0172 0.6973 1.6196
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 0.3499 0.6229 0.562 0.5821
homozygote(g1, "C")TRUE 1.2124 0.4778 2.537 0.0220 *
allele.count(g2, "G") 0.1193 0.2429 0.491 0.6298
g3T/T -0.7724 0.6414 -1.204 0.2460
---
Signif. codes: 0 `***' 0.001 `**' 0.01 `*' 0.05 `.' 0.1 ` ' 1
Residual standard error: 1.013 on 16 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-Squared: 0.3405, Adjusted R-squared: 0.2169
F-statistic: 2.754 on 3 and 16 DF, p-value: 0.07661
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From zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at Tue Oct 29 11:00:18 2002
From: zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Achim Zeileis)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:00:18 +0100
Subject: updated package "lmtest" 0.9-2
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Dear R users,
there is a new version of the package `lmtest' for testing linear
regression models on CRAN. Except for a couple of minor bug fixes,
there are essentially these new features:
o added Breusch-Godfrey test for serial correlation
(thanks to David M. Mitchell who provided the initial version
of the code for bgtest)
o new data sets:
mandible measurements in fetuses,
US macroecnomic time series
o the Durbin-Watson test dwtest() now takes an alternative
argument. The default is to test for positive autocorrelation
(which was the only option before).
o a vignette, which describes the package. This is a version of an
article that will be published in the forthcoming R News 2(3).
The DESCRIPTION of the package is given below.
Best wishes,
Achim Zeileis
Package: lmtest
Title: Testing Linear Regression Models
Version: 0.9-2
Date: $Date: 2002/10/28 10:07:32 $
Author: Torsten Hothorn <Torsten.Hothorn at rzmail.uni-erlangen.de>,
Achim Zeileis <zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at>, David Mitchell
Maintainer: Achim Zeileis <zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at>
Description: A collection of tests, data sets and examples
for diagnostic checking in linear regression models.
Depends: R (>= 1.4.0)
License: GPL
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From hornik at ci.tuwien.ac.at Fri Jun 21 17:19:26 2002
From: hornik at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Kurt Hornik)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 17:19:26 +0200
Subject: R News Volume 2/2
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
We have just published the 2002/2 issue of R News on
http://cran.R-project.org/doc/Rnews
where you can download the newsletter as PDF or Postscript file. It
will propagate to the CRAN mirrors within a day or two.
This issue focuses on the R 1.5.0 release, with key innovations in the
standard add-on package 'ts' and the two new recommended packages 'grid'
and 'lattice'. There is much more exciting information, including news
on R and spatial statistics, distributed computing, and bioinformatics.
Contents:
Time Series in R 1.5.0
Naive Time Series Forecasting Methods
Rmpi: Parallel Statistical Computing in R
The grid Graphics Package
Lattice
Programmer's Niche
geoRglm: A Package for Generalised Linear Spatial Models
Querying PubMed
evd: Extreme Value Distributions
ipred: Improved Predictors
Changes in R
Changes on CRAN
Upcoming Events
which makes a total of 44 pages.
For the editorial board,
Kurt Hornik
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From stefano.iacus at unimi.it Fri Jan 19 18:17:02 2001
From: stefano.iacus at unimi.it (Stefano Iacus)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:17:02 +0100
Subject: R 1.2.1 (beta) for Macintosh
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <a05001900b68e2542a990@[159.149.74.61]>
Macintosh binaries and sources have been updated to R-1.2.1
You can find them at
http://www.eco-dip.unimi.it/R
Please remember that this is still at a developer stage. Feedback and
interactions with other Macintosh developer is warmly welcome.
Macintosh-specific changes to R
===============================
* help.start() has been implemented. Now R for MacOS calls the
standard HTML browser to visualize the HTML help and manuals.
* getenv() in now working. The .Renviron file is assumed to be in
"etc" directory. Directory "etc" is assumed to contain the history
file, the image session and the environments variables
* a command line has been added. It is possible to specify options as
in the Unix/Win implementations. If you don't want to specify
options, simply type return after starting R aplication.
* InfoZip code has been included in this version. Help files are now
stored in zipped archive to save disk space.
* packages have been recompiled and few other bugs fixed
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From: pd@me@ @end|ng |rom cb@@dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 21:28:03 +0000
Subject: [Rd] R 4.0.2 scheduled for June 22
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Unfortunatly, a memory allocation bug prevented the R Commander package from working on Windows. This is fixed in R-patched, but we cannot have this not working in the official release when IT departments start installing for the Fall semester, so we need to issue a new release.
Full schedule is available on developer.r-project.org.
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From p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz Mon Apr 3 04:58:33 2006
From: p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz (Paul Murrell)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:58:33 +1200
Subject: R News, volume 6, issue 1 is now available
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Hi
The March 2006 issue of R News is now available on CRAN under the
Documentation/Newsletter link.
Paul
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From: pd@|gd @end|ng |rom gm@||@com (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:30:56 +0200
Subject: [Rd] R 4.0.5 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
The build system rolled up R-4.0.5.tar.gz (codename "Shake and Throw") this morning.
This is a very minor update, mostly to fix the annoyance with East Asian character sets.
The list below details the changes in this release.
You can get the source code from
https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.0.5.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,
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BUG FIXES:
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From keitt at nceas.ucsb.edu Wed Jul 12 23:26:42 2000
From: keitt at nceas.ucsb.edu (Timothy H. Keitt)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:26:42 -0700
Subject: New release of RPgSQL
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I've done some major house cleaning on RPgSQL. The latest release is
available at http://rpgsql.sourceforge.net/ and should soon appear on
CRAN.
Cheers,
Tim
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Phone: 805-892-2519, FAX: 805-892-2510
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From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Tue Jun 16 10:25:27 1998
From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:25:27 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: New Package bindata at CRAN
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I have put the new package bindata to CRAN, which provides a method
for creating binary (i.e., 0-1-valued) random variables with
correlation structures by converting multivariate random variables to
binary variables.
The package includes a postscript file of a technical report
describing the method, here's the abstract:
**********************************************************
The generation of random variates from multivariate binary
distributions has not gained as much interest in the literature as,
e.g., multivariate normal or Poisson distributions. Binary variables
are important in many types of applications. Our main interest is in
the segmentation of marketing data, where data come from customer
questionnaires with ``yes/no'' questions. Artificial data provide a
valuable tool for the analysis of segmentation tools, because data
with known structure can be constructed to mimic situations from the
real world (Dolnicar et al. 1998). Questionnaire data can be highly
correlated, when several questions covering the same field are likely
to be answered similarly by a subject. In this paper we present a
computationally fast method to simulate multivariate binary
distributions with a given correlation structure. The implementation
of the algorithm in R, an implementation of the S statistical
language, is described in the appendix.
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From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Fri Mar 8 16:56:39 2002
From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 16:56:39 +0100
Subject: R News Volume 2/1
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
We have just published the fourth issue of R News on
http://cran.R-project.org/doc/Rnews
where you can download the newsletter as PDF or postscript file. It
will propagate to the CRAN mirrors within a day or two.
This is the first special issue of R News, with an emphasis on
applying R in medical statistics. It is special in many ways: first,
it took longer to prepare than we had originally antipicated (which
typically seems to happen for special issues). Second, the newsletter
file is rather large as there are many exciting images---in fact, in
trying to keep the size reasonable, in some cases images are only
included at a lower resolution, with the ``real stuff'' available from
the respective authors' web pages. And finally, articles are fewer
but longer: as many of the applications described are based on recent
advances in medical technology, we felt that extra space with
background information was warranted.
Contents:
Reading foreign files
Maximally selected rank statistics in R.
Quality control and early diagnostics for cDNA microarrays.
Bioconductor.
AnalyzeFMRI: An R package for the exploration and analysis of MRI and
fMRI datasets.
Using R for the analysis of DNA microarray data.
Changes in R
Changes on CRAN
which makes a total of 41 pages.
For the editorial board,
Fritz Leisch
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From stefano.iacus at unimi.it Sat Dec 22 12:49:40 2001
From: stefano.iacus at unimi.it (Stefano Iacus)
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:49:40 +0100
Subject: R 1.4.0 for Apple Machines (both Carbon and Darwin)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I have just uplodaed on CRAN both versions of R 1.4.0.
So starting from Dec 23rd, you'll find the builds for Carbon and Darwin
directly on CRAN respectively at
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macos : Carbon R (8.6 -> 9.2 and OSX)
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx : Darwin/X11 R (thanks to Jan!)
specific updates and bug fixing for the Carbon release can be found in
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macos/base/CHANGES
along with the Carbon FAQ
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macos/rmac-FAQ.html
Contributed packages for rm140 will come in 2002 !
stefano
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From: n@th@||e@v|@|@ne|x @end|ng |rom |nr@@|r (Nathalie Vialaneix)
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 12:55:48 +0200
Subject: [useR! 2019] end of early bird registration is approaching
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Dear R-enthusiasts,
This is just a gentle reminder that the end of early bird registration
is approaching: early bird fees are only available until May 7th. If you
want to benefit from reduced fees, you have to register and pay before
this date. More information on
https://user2019.r-project.org/registration/.
Hope to see you soon in Toulouse,
Nathalie Vialaneix
On behalf of the organization committee for useR! 2019
http://user2019.r-project.org
** new email: nathalie.vialaneix at inra.fr **
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From pd@me@ @end|ng |rom cb@@dk Fri Apr 16 12:41:21 2021
From: pd@me@ @end|ng |rom cb@@dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 10:41:21 +0000
Subject: [Rd] R 4.1.0 scheduled for May 18
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Full schedule is available on developer.r-project.org.
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From P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Fri Dec 12 16:07:04 2008
From: P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:07:04 +0100
Subject: DSC 2009: Now open for registration and abstract submission
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Re. Workshop on Directions in Statistical Computing, Copenhagen 13-14
July 2009.
http://www.r-project.org/dsc-2009
The web interface for registration and submission of abstracts is now open.
(The site is still under construction in a number of respects. In
particular, we haven't negotiated discounts with any of the hotels yet.)
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From claudio at unive.it Tue Sep 17 12:03:55 2002
From: claudio at unive.it (Claudio Agostinelli)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:03:55 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: ga: genetic algorithms package
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Dear all,
at the following address
http://linaria.dst.unive.it/~claudio/R/Rmaterial.html#ga
you can download a package to build simple genetic algorithms. I wrote
this package to introduce genetic algorithms to student in labs, which
means, the package emphasize "how a ga works" instead of "how
fast it could be".
Please, let me know any comments or suggestions,
Bests,
Claudio Agostinelli
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From keitt at nceas.ucsb.edu Sun Dec 5 04:28:11 1999
From: keitt at nceas.ucsb.edu (Timothy H. Keitt)
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 19:28:11 -0800
Subject: PostgreSQL package
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Version 0.2 is now available at
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~keitt/R/
This version includes a user extensible type conversion system. By
defining three functions, you can now store and retrieve arbitrary data
types in PostgreSQL tables. Enjoy.
Tim
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From pd.mes at cbs.dk Sun Mar 13 10:55:37 2011
From: pd.mes at cbs.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:55:37 +0100
Subject: R 2.13.0 scheduled for April 13
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.13.0 on Wednesday,
April 13, 2011.
Those directly involved should review the generic schedule at
http://developer.r-project.org/release-checklist.html
The source tarballs will be made available daily (barring build
troubles) via
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/
For the R Core Team
Peter Dalgaard
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From jago at mclink.it Tue Apr 30 22:01:35 2002
From: jago at mclink.it (Stefano Iacus)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 22:01:35 +0200
Subject: R 150 for MacOS (Carbon R) released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I have just updated the CRAN with the latest build of R 150.
The archive also contains all the base and recommended packages.
It will be mirrored in a couple of days or so.
Contributed packages will follow in few days.
Stefano M. Iacus
Here the Changes for version 1.5.0
Macintosh-specific changes to R
===============================
rm150
=====
* using dev.off() when a user close a windows instead
of killing directly the device
* changed MPWBuild to take care of changes in the src/include
directory
* fixed a bug with path length (Thanks to T.Lumley)
* fixed a problem with building help files. In particular,
html help files now have correct links
* added system() functionality under MacOS X. When R is
running under MacOS X, it is now possibile to run BSD
shell commands via the system() R command. Very limited
at the moment but working.
* fixed the problem with the error message: "negative length vectors
are not allowed". Now you should not experiment this anymore.
* MacZip not needed anymore.
Note for developers:
--------------------
For the people who want to build R from sources: you should the replace
the file src/macintosh/MPWBuild with the one you find in this prebuilt
distribution of R for Macintosh. See details in the file README_MAC.TXT
inside rm150 folder.
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From ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de Fri Aug 29 20:15:09 2003
From: ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:15:09 +0200
Subject: Notes on Windows binaries of contributed packages
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Announcement for Windows users of R < 1.7.0
and maintainers of contributed packages
[Please do not reply to r-announce!]
Windows users of R < 1.7.0
==========================
[Users of R-1.7.x are not affected.]
In order to clean up the directory structure on CRAN, the Windows binary
version of contributed packages for R < 1.7.0 will be moved from
Your-CRAN-Mirror/bin/windows/contrib
to a subdirectory ./1.6 shortly.
Therefore, install.packages() and friends of R < 1.7.0 won't work
without specifying argument "contriburl" explicitly. Of course, manual
download and installation is possible as well. Note that these packages
are no longer being updated (last update was: 11-Apr-2003).
ReadMe files will be available in the corresponding directories.
It is highly recommended to upgrade to a recent version of R!
Maintainers of contributed packages
===================================
Starting with the first alpha releases of R-1.8.0 (in development), I am
going to make Windows binary versions of contributed packages available
(around September 13) at Your-CRAN-Mirror/bin/windows/contrib/1.8
(currently still linked to the ./1.7 directory).
Packages that do not compile out of the box or do not pass "Rcmd check"
with "OK" or "WARNING" will *not* be published. This "Status", i.e.
result of "Rcmd check" ("OK", "WARNING", "ERROR"), will be listed in a
file "./1.8/Status". Corresponding check.log will be available in
subdirectory ./1.8/check.
For details, please read the ReadMe (to appear).
Best regards,
Uwe Ligges
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From pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca Tue Dec 21 22:15:57 1999
From: pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:15:57 -0500
Subject: DSE revised for R 0.90.1
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
A slightly revised version of my DSE package for multi-variate time series
analysis is now available at <www.bank-banque-canada.ca/pgilbert>. This
version works with R 0.90.1 (and not with R 90.0 or earlier versions). It can
also be installed with
install.packages(c("syskern", "tframe", "dse"),
contriburl="http://www.bank-banque-canada.ca/pgilbert/dse/R")
A draft version of the new users guide is also available at the web site.
Comments would be appreciated. I will put a version of the libraries on CRAN in
the new year.
Paul Gilbert
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From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Mon Jun 15 00:37:34 1998
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 15 Jun 1998 00:37:34 +0200
Subject: R-0.62.1
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Due to a glitch with the CVS version management software (quite likely
my own fault), R-0.62.0 got shipped without the "tests" directory.
Apart from preventing "make tests" from working, it also has untoward
consequences for "make clean" and the like.
So there's an updated version in R-0.62.1.tgz in the usual places.
For good measure, there's also a patch file.
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From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Tue Aug 15 11:41:40 2000
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 15 Aug 2000 11:41:40 +0200
Subject: R-1.1.1 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I've rolled up R-1.1.1.tgz a moment ago.
This is expected to be the last release in the 1.1 series unless some
truly dreadful error pops up. The 1.2.0 release is scheduled for early
December.
You can get it from
ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.1.1.tgz
or
http://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.1.1.tgz
or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site near you within a day or two.
There's also a version split in three for floppies and a patch file if
you prefer that.
For the R Core Team,
Peter D.
Here's the relevant part of the NEWS file:
NEW FEATURES
o data(), example() and help() now search the loaded packages, then
in their .lib.loc argument, the latter as pre-0.99.0. See
their help pages for the precise details.
o help() has a new argument `try.all.packages' set by the option
"help.try.all.packages". If help is not found in the normal
path and this is TRUE then a search is made of all packages
for possible matches.
o Improved detection of Tcl/Tk at configure time. One can either
set configure variables TCLTK_CPPFLAGS and TCLTK_LIBS, or give
the locations of the tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh scripts via
the `--with-tcl-config' and `--with-tk-config' arguments.
o prop.trend.test() - test for trend in proportions.
o write.table() has new argument `dec' for setting the decimal
separator (SPSS/Windows and probably others want commas in
continental European locales).
o Advance warning: save(, oldstyle=TRUE) will no longer be
available after this release.
o Symbols can now be coerced to expressions, making
as.expression(quote(a)) work
BUG FIXES
o data() now works correctly with data-only packages.
o Standalone Mathlib can now be made if builddir = srcdir
(working around an undocumented autoconf `feature').
o Check for pre-1.1.0 saved object .Postscript.options in postscript().
o More stringent checks on the arguments to dataentry().
o Specifying xlab as an expression now works again.
o dev2bitmap() works again.
o Numerous uses of `F' and `T' replaced by `FALSE' and `TRUE'.
o bxp() now extends `ylim' properly when notch=TRUE (and a
notch is more extreme than other stats).
Also, varwidth is okay again, see example(split).
o Making manuals without making R first now works.
o princomp() now works when some eigenvalues are tiny negative
values (which are treated as zero).
o SearchEngine.html was not installed when builddir != srcdir.
o lm.{w}fit(x,y,..) now work when x has no column names.
These functions no longer add and subtract n zeros when there's no
offset. They are now documented somewhat.
o Some HTML files used src="R.css" instead of href="R.css"
causing some browsers to ignore the style sheet. R.css now
passes the w3c CSS validator and gives the intended results
with Internet Explorer. R.css is copied to all library directories.
o The data editor no longer crashes when entries contain more than
45 characters, and works correctly if the field width is
larger than the window width.
o Recording plots used to ignore graphics events before the last
replay.
o plot(), points(), etc now give warnings and error for invalid
`type' arguments.
o matplot() now allows the same `type's as plot().
o dev.print() and dev.copy2eps() now work when called from a
function, such as dev2bitmap().
o anova.glmlist works correctly with decreasing models and
test="F" now gets the correct residual df.
o Functions created (not just edited) with fix() now get
environment .GlobalEnv not the body of fix.
o Rdconv was ignoring OS-specific parts of the files with some
Perl versions. (This did not affect installing packages.)
o R CMD check did not run more than one specific test.
o keyword2html omitted items when changing up a level, so
the HTML search engine keyword list was missing `data' and
`utilities', for example.
o aov() with multiple strata was setting some spurious options.
o Under UNIX, help(, htmlhelp=TRUE) uses the linked copy of the
HTML file in ~/.R if help.start() has been run recently in the
session, so the style sheet and hyperlinks should now be found.
o dotplot's arguments `color' and `lcolor' are now interpreted
correctly if they are vectors of length > 1. (It is not clear
from the help that this was ever intended.)
o Error messages of e.g. do.call() are now spaced properly.
o summary(.matrix | .data.frame) now respects a `digits' argument.
o scan() recognises quoted strings by default again. The default
for the quote= argument got set wrongly when it was
introduced. They are, however, turned off when using sep="\n",
since you probably want unprocessed lines of text in that
case.
o fixed buglet where scan() would double a character following a
terminating quote symbol.
o kmeans was failing on vector inputs (although not documented
to accept such).
o fixes in predict.lm (John Maindonald)
o NCOL got confused by 1D arrays, which it now reports have 1
column rather than NA.
o rep(1:2,c(1,-1)) segfaulted (PR 619)
o x[["a"]] <- y rejected some object types for y (e.g.
expressions) which were accepted in x$a <- y (PR
o data editor froze on empty data frame, and more generally on
zero-length cols.
o data editor did not handle factors properly in numeric-edit
mode.
o table() misbehaved on empty (or all-NA) data
o data editor now handles empty data frames, allowing data entry
to begin with dd<-edit(data.frame()) or
dd<-data.frame() ; fix(dd)
o plotting math expressions when specified as a LANGSXP or
SYMSXP didn't work in several cases: plot(1,main=quote(a))
would segfault and there were problems with title(), text(),
and mtext() as well.
o optim(): no more segfault for REPORT=0; corrected error msg; ..
maxit default is now okay also when "L-*-B" is chosen automatically.
Using (abs|rel)tol with that method now gives a warning.
o text() did not respect its `xpd' argument, the default of which
is still to use par("xpd"); gave a wrong error message in one case.
o polygon() had an incorrect documentation and silently disregarded
"..." arguments.
o predict.loess was giving incorrect results (those for the
non-robust fit) in the case of a fit with family = "symmetric"
and surface = "direct" and prediction with se = FALSE. The
fitted values were missing for such fits.
o Better rendering of ^ and ~ in latex in \code{} (and they should
not appear outside code and verbatim sections).
o Fixed unterminated string problem with lty (PR 584)
o Fixed scoping problem with quasi() family (PR 614)
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From jfox at MCMASTER.CA Fri Aug 23 00:43:55 2013
From: jfox at MCMASTER.CA (John Fox)
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:43:55 -0400
Subject: Rcmdr version 2.0-0 now on CRAN
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Dear R-help list members,
Version 2.0-0 of the Rcmdr package is now on CRAN and should appear
presently on the various CRAN mirrors. As its number implies, this version
represents a milestone in the development of the package, which first
appeared on CRAN more than 10 years ago. The transition to version 2.0-0
reflects both substantial upgrades to the Rcmdr interface in the new release
(see the release notes below) as well as accumulated changes in recent
versions. Of particular note beyond the interface improvements is the
integration of HTML and PDF report generation via the knitr and markdown
packages.
>From the package NEWS file:
Changes to Version 2.0-0
o New package co-author: Milan Bouchet-Valet.
o Many changes to style of dialogs: tabs, Reset button, Apply button,
small interface improvements.
o Support for R Markdown, with script and Rmd tabs.
o Expanded Options dialog and new Save Options dialog.
o Better handling of default fonts.
o Improved probability plots.
o Introduced plotDistr(), lineplot(), indexplot() convenience functions.
o New nonparametric density estimate dialog.
o Use automatic point identification as default in plot dialogs.
o Calls to deprecated functions .find.package() and .path.package()
replaced by find.package() and path.package() (suggestion of Brian Ripley).
o Partial correlations now optionally report pairwise p-values (suggestion
of Aaron Swink).
o Removed Sciviews support code.
o Small fixes.
o Updated translations (with thanks to the translators): Italian (Stefano
Calza), Korean (Jong-Hwa Shin), Romanian (Adrian Dusa), Russian (Alexey
Shipunov), Spanish (Manuel Munoz-Marquez).
o Show menu item for English introductory manual even if a "translation"
is available (suggestion of Manuel Munoz-Marquez).
As usual, please report bugs or problems to jfox at mcmaster.ca. Comments and
suggestions are also appreciated.
Best,
John and Milan
-----------------------------------------------
John Fox
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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From pd.mes at cbs.dk Mon Sep 19 14:37:44 2011
From: pd.mes at cbs.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:37:44 +0200
Subject: [R] R 2.14.0 scheduled for October 31, 2.13.2 for September 30
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.14.0 on Monday,
October 31, 2011.
As a new feature, we will precede the run-in sequence for 2.14.0 with a final release of the 2.13 series, 2.13.2. No further patching of this series is intended.
Those directly involved should review the generic schedule at
http://developer.r-project.org/release-checklist.html
The source tarballs will be made available daily (barring build
troubles) via
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/
For the R Core Team
Peter Dalgaard
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From tlumley at u.washington.edu Sun Jul 11 05:38:00 2004
From: tlumley at u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 20:38:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: newsletter
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
The new issue of the R Newsletter (1/2004) is out on http://www.r-project.org/
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From mikalzet at libero.it Wed Dec 20 14:39:40 2000
From: mikalzet at libero.it (mikalzet at libero.it)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:39:40 +0100 (CET)
Subject: R 1.2.0 for Mandrake 7.1 and 7.2
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The RPM package compiled for Mandrake 7.1 is available on CRAN, the
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From erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at Fri Feb 25 13:26:12 2000
From: erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at (Erich Neuwirth)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:26:12 +0100
Subject: r-excel interface code
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
some of you might be interested.
i just uploaded the first release of my
r-excel interface package to CRAN.
it is in
contributed extensions
nonstandard extensions
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From pd.mes at cbs.dk Fri Mar 1 11:01:32 2013
From: pd.mes at cbs.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 11:01:32 +0100
Subject: R 2.15.3 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
The build system rolled up R-2.15.3.tar.gz (codename "Security Blanket") at 9:00 this morning. This is intended to be the final round-up release of the 2.15 series, and in fact of the entire 2.x.y series which started 2004-10-04.
The list below details the changes in this release.
You can get the source code from
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.3.tar.gz
or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you.
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This is the relevant part of the NEWS file
CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.15.3:
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
environment variable R_PARALLEL_PORT: this chooses a random value
for the port and reduces the chance of conflicts when multiple
users start a cluster at the same time.
UTILITIES:
o The default for TAR on Windows for R CMD build has been changed
to be internal if no tar command is on the path.
This enables most packages to be built 'out of the box' without
Rtools: the main exceptions are those which need to be installed
to re-build vignettes and need Rtools for installation (usually
because they contain compiled code).
C-LEVEL FACILITIES:
o On a 64-bit Windows platform with enough RAM, R_alloc can now
allocate up to just under 32GB like other 64-bit platforms.
DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT:
o Use of col2rgb(0) is deprecated (see the help page for its
limitations).
o The deprecated intensities component returned by hist() is no
longer recognized by the plot() method and will be removed in R
3.0.0.
o real(), as.real() and is.real() are now formally deprecated and
give a warning.
o This is formal notice that the non-API EISPACK entry points in R
will be removed shortly.
INSTALLATION:
o The configure tests for Objective C and Objective C++ now work on
Mac OS 10.8 with Xcode 4.5.2 (PR#15107).
o The cairo-based versions of X11() now work with current versions
of cairographics (e.g. 1.12.10). (PR#15168)
A workaround for earlier versions of R is to use X11.options(type
= "nbcairo").
o Configuration and R CMD javareconf now come up with a smaller set
of library paths for Java on Oracle-format JDK (including
OpenJDK). This helps avoid conflicts between libraries (such as
libjpeg) supplied in the JDK and system libraries. This can
always be overridden if needed: see the 'R Installation and
Administration' manual.
BUG FIXES:
o beta(a, b) could overflow to infinity in its calculations when
one of a and b was less than one. (PR#15075)
o lbeta(a, b) no longer gives NaN if a or b is very small (in the
denormalized range).
o bquote() is now able to substitute default arguments in
single-argument functions. (PR#15077)
o browseEnv(html = FALSE) would segfault if called from R (not
R.app) on a CRAN-style Mac OS X build of R.
o [[<- for lists (generic vectors) needed to increment NAMED count
when RHS is used more than once. (PR#15098)
o On Windows, warnings about opening a file or pipe with a
non-ASCII description were sometimes output in UTF-8 rather than
in the current locale's character set.
o The call() function did not duplicate its arguments. (PR#15115)
o TukeyHSD() could give NA results with some na.action methods such
as na.exclude(). (Hinted at on R-help by John Fox.)
o The deprecated svd(X, LINPACK = TRUE) could alter X in R
2.15.[12]. (Reported by Bill Dunlap.)
o Under Windows, file.link() and file.symlink() used the link name
twice, so would always fail. (Reported by Rui Barradas/Oliver
Soong).
o summaryRprof(memory = "both") mixed up the units of Vcells and
Ncells: it now works in bytes. (PR#15138)
o tools::Rd2HTML() would sometimes delete text. (PR#15134)
o plot() failed for "table" objects containing just one entry.
(PR#15118)
o embedFonts() needed to quote some filepaths. (PR#15149)
o parallel::mccollect() handled NULL returns incorrectly (removing
the element rather than setting it to NULL).
o The full reference index (fullrefman.pdf) was missing packages
compiler and parallel.
o The report for optim(method = "L-BFGS-B", control = list(trace =
1)) reported the last completed and not the current iteration,
unlike other methods and trace levels. (PR#15103)
o qt(1e-12, 1.2) no longer gives NaN.
o dt(1e160, 1.2, log=TRUE) no longer gives -Inf.
o On Windows the untar() function now quotes the directory name
when using an external tar utility, so R CMD check will handle
pathnames containing spaces.
o The version for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 is now
displayed by win.version(). (Reported by Gabor Grothendieck.)
o The custom Windows installer target myR in the installer Makefile
did not work in 2.15.2. (Reported by Erich Neuwirth.)
o aperm(matrix(1:6, 2, dimnames=list(A={}, B={})), "A") no longer
segfaults.
o Expressions involving user defined operators were not always
deparsed faithfully. (PR#15179)
o The enc2utf8() function converted NA_character_ to "NA" in
non-UTF-8 locales. (PR#15201)
o The exclude argument to xtabs() was ignored for "factor"
arguments.
o On Windows, work around an event-timing problem when the RGui
console was closed from the 'X' control and the closure
cancelled. (This would on some 64-bit systems crash R, typically
those with a slow GPU relative to the CPU.)
o On unix Rscript will pass the r_arch setting it was compiled with
on to the R process so that the architecture of Rscript and that
of R will match unless overridden.
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From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Mon Nov 22 14:47:15 1999
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 22 Nov 1999 14:47:15 +0100
Subject: R 0.90.0 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I've rolled up R-0.90.0.tgz a moment ago. The jump in version number
indicates that we are approaching version 1.0, more than a "quantum
leap" in functionality.
You can get it from (notice that we have changed servers in Wisconsin
with much better availability and new names)
ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-0.90.0.tgz
or
http://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-0.90.0.tgz
or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site near you within a day or two.
There's also a version split in two for floppies if you prefer that.
For the R Core Team,
Peter D.
Here is the relevant part of the NEWS file:
**************************************************
* *
* 0.90 SERIES NEWS *
* *
**************************************************
NEW FEATURES
o packages splines (for regression smoothing splines or
interpolating splines) and nls (nonlinear least squares) are
part of the base distribution.
o New error handling using
options ( error = expression(..) , warning.expr = ... ).
REPLACING version 0.65.1's options(error.halt = T/F)
o collected warnings before an error are no longer lost but
are printed after the error message (unless the error makes
this impossible).
o A couple of substantial graphics changes, esp. in the X11
driver. The scaling of symbols is now linear in cex=, rather
than being tied to the available font's size. The fonts on an
X11 device also scale linearly with cex= insofar as your X
server can do it. On systems with the scalable type 1
PostScript fonts installed, this looks particularly nice. Note
that the scaling is linear in the *diameter*, but quadratic in
area. The distance between lines of margin text in the X11
device is now proportional to the size given to
x11(pointsize).
o abline(a,b) now (again) refers to transformed coordinates on
plots with log-axes, so that abline(lm(log10(y)~log10(x)))
(say) draws a best-fitting line on a log-log plot. The earlier
convention (to draw a curve representing a line in original
coordinates) is available using a new untf= argument.
o barplot.default() has new `axisnames' (and `sub') arguments, easily
allowing suppression of bar labeling.
o cbind() and rbind() now actually do what deparse.level=1 implies:
add column/row names based on the deparsed argument, provided it
is a simple symbol. The behaviour is still hardcoded, though.
o gc() now reports the total sizes in Mb as well as numbers.
o New function help.search() for searching the names, titles,
aliases, or keywords in the help system.
o image() allows x and y to specify either the boundaries or the
midpoints of the cells. If the latter, the whole cells are
drawn, rather than the outer cells being half-sized as previously.
o NULL extra arguments to model.frame() are now treated as missing
(instead of an error).
o optimization with nlm() can use analytic gradients and Hessians
if they are supplied.
o on.exit() allows add=TRUE.
o function parse.dcf() for parsing files in debian control file format
(DESCRIPTION, CONTENTS, ...)
o predict.{g}lm has a type="terms" option, and residual.glm has
type="partial" as a step towards plot.gam().
o New arguments to q() and quit() allow the exit status to be set
and the execution of .Last() to be skipped.
o New function regexpr(), similar to grep but returns the position
of the match in each string. (For S-PLUS compatibility.)
o scan() now supports complex numbers.
o New function sort.list, for S compatibility. (This has argument
partial, but always sorts completely.)
o storage.mode<- can be used to set "single", and if setting
anything other than "single" it removes the "Csingle" attribute.
o new function sunflowerplot().
o New function undoc() for listing undocumented objects.
o User's .Rprofile now executes in global environment
o All HTML pages now use the new style sheet doc/html/R.css
o html and text files have now a header line giving the name of
the help file and the package. The description section now
comes first.
o All the standard packages have DESCRIPTION files with
"Priority: base", so installed.packages and
package.description will work with them.
o The R-external manual which describes programming for the
.Call and .External interfaces is in the doc/manual directory.
o New target `make pdf' in doc/manuals makes hyperlinked PDF
documentation. (This is experimental for this release. See
doc/manual/README for further details.)
o S.h now contains (via Rdefines.h) a MESSAGE macro, and
Free NULLs the pointer, for compatibility with S3 (but not S4).
o New subroutine REALPR callable from Fortran (like DBLEPR but
for real arguments): useful if as.single is in use.
o The cex= argument to plot() etc. can be a vector, like pch=.
o lty=0 now (again) makes lines invisible. Looks better for
barplot label axis.
o zero.R tries to find the zero DLL in a system-independent way.
BUG FIXES
o apply should now work for all un-dimnamed arrays (PR#318).
o ar(..., demean=F) works more consistently across methods.
o barplot() had lower limits set at -0.01, causing trouble with
small heights. Switch to relative scale. (Thanks to Matt Wiener)
o density() should work better with NAs and infinite values. See
?density for the current definitions of how these are handled.
o diag(x) now works (as pre 0.65.1) for 1-d arrays.
o Stored-source was dropped by dump().
o expand.grid returns a data frame even for one arg.
o expand.grid(x) now also works for vector arguments x.
o factor(list()) or factor(character(0)) *is* now a factor
with valid levels(.);
ordered does NOT allow an `ordered' argument anymore
and is now defined as trivial call to factor.
o help page for gc gives correct size of cons cells (20 bytes
for 32-bit systems, 36 or more for 64-bit systems).
o gcinfo reports correct percentages of heap even for vsize > 200M.
o gl(6,3,12) and gl(6,3,2) now both work.
o Empty lists now deparse correctly.
o na.omit.ts and na.contiguous preserve classes.
o plot.factor {plot(<factor>)} now obeys axes=FALSE and xaxt="n".
o read.table(as.is = TRUE) would leave everything as character.
Now it correctly tries to convert to numeric.
o require() now has the warn.conflicts argument of library().
o Fix problems in scan(flush = TRUE).
o scan() got confused by trailing whitespace.
o split(x,f) now works even when f is a factor with unused levels
(PR#294).
o mosaicplot() has a formula interface and
NULL instead of NA default args.
o stars() has "NULL" instead of "NA" defaults.
o str() is quite a bit nicer with factors.
o ts.union, cbind.ts, arithmetic on ts objects now allow
non-integer frequencies.
o Switch to <tt> in HTML pages since Linux Netscape mangles
Courier.
o When documentation is "compiled" (build-help), you now get warnings
for multiple (conflicting) \alias{.} or \name{.}s.
o making the reference manual with `make dvi' copes better with
isolatin1 characters (but not perfectly as these are not in
standard TeX fonts).
o Rd.sty now uses standard LaTeX constructs like \bm for bold
math and \url for URLs.
o Protect R_fopen against NULL filename in Unix.
o Math text in outer margins didn't work.
o Text clipping now works in the X11 device.
o Pixel rows sometimes got doubled in rotated text on the X11 device.
o par("yaxt") is now ok.
o Problems with realloc on some systems in AllocBuffer.
o Problem with formatReal on non-IEEE systems.
o demos/dynload/Makefile used macros that gave incorrect build
on some non-GNU makes.
o Windows version copes better with paths with spaces in.
o R CMD check had a typo which made the final message fail.
o R_EOF redefined as -1, was causing trouble with isxxxx contructions.
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From dirk.eddelbuettel at r-project.org Tue Mar 23 16:08:27 2010
From: dirk.eddelbuettel at r-project.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:08:27 -0500
Subject: R Participation in the Google Summer of Code 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Dear R Users,
We would like to highlight that R has once again been selected to participate
in the Google Summer of Code. Suggested projects can be found in the R-Wiki:
http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=developers:projects:gsoc2010. The GSoC
is a program from Google that offers student developers stipends to write
code for various open source software projects (more information can be found
here: http://code.google.com/soc/).
All discussion related to R and the Google Summer of Code should preferably
tak place on the respective google group:
http://groups.google.com/group/gsoc-r (gsoc-r at googlegroups.com).
We are currently in a time period during which interested students can
discuss an idea from the wiki with the respective project mentor, or contact
the gsoc-r group to propose a new one and find a mentor. Please note that
some projects on the R-Wiki also provide test questions, so please read these
pages thoroughly before contacting a project mentor. The student application
period opens on March 29th.
Best regards,
the R Project GSoC mentors
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From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates)
Date: 15 Jan 2001 07:11:35 -0600
Subject: R-1.2.1 available from rsync.r-project.org
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
The R-1.2.1 sources are now available via rsync as rsync.r-project.org::r-release
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You can submit an abstract for a regular talk, an elevator pitch (that
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From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Thu Oct 6 13:45:43 2005
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: 06 Oct 2005 13:45:43 +0200
Subject: R-2.2.0 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I've rolled up R-2.2.0.tar.gz a short while ago. This version contains
several changes and additions, mostly incremental. See the full list
of changes below.
You can get it from
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.2.0.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.
There is also a version split for floppies.
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:
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Here is the relevant bit of the NEWS file:
CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.2.0
USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
o plot(<lm object>) uses a new default 'which = 5'
for the fourth panel when 'which' is not specified.
o The SVN revision number will appear after the date in the
welcome message. The date shown is now the date of the last
change to the sources rather than the date the sources were
prepared.
o is.null(expression()) now returns FALSE. Only NULL gives TRUE
in is.null().
o graphics::xy.coords, xyz.coords and n2mfrow have been moved to
the grDevices name space (to be available for grid as well).
graphics::boxplot.stats, contourLines, nclass.*, and chull
have been moved to the grDevices name space. The C code
underlying chull() has been moved to package grDevices.
o split(x, f), split<-() and unsplit() now by default split by all
levels of a factor f, even when some are empty.
Use split(x, f, drop = TRUE) if you want the old behavior of
dropping empty levels. split() and split<-() are S3 generic
functions with new arguments 'drop' and '...' and all methods now
should have 'drop' and '...' arguments as well.
o The default for 'allowEscapes' in both read.table() and scan()
has been changed to FALSE.
o The default for 'gcFirst' in system.time() is now TRUE.
NEW FEATURES
o .Platform has a new component 'path.sep', the separator used
between paths in environment variables such as PATH and TEXINPUTS.
o anova.mlm() now handles the single-model case.
o Hexadecimal values are now allowed for as.numeric() and
as.integer() on all platforms, and as integer constants in R code.
o attach() now prints an information message when objects are
masked on the search path by or from a newly attached database.
o axis() now returns 'at' positions.
o axis() has a new argument 'hadj' to control horizontal
adjustment of labels.
o axis.Date() and axis.POSIXct() now accept a 'labels' argument
(contributed by Gavin Simpson).
o barplot() now has arguments 'log = ""' and 'add = FALSE'
(as in barplot2() from package 'gplots').
o baseenv() has been added, to return the base environment. This
is currently still NULL, but will change in a future release.
o boxplot() now responds to supplying 'yaxs' (via bxp()).
(Wish of PR#8072.)
o capabilities() has a new component 'NLS'.
o cbind() and rbind() now react to 'deparse.level' = {0,1,2}
(as in another system not unlike R).
o Experimental versions of cbind() and rbind() in methods package,
based on new generic function cbind2(x,y) and rbind2(). This will
allow the equivalent of S4 methods for cbind() and rbind() ---
currently only after an explicit activation call, see ?cbind2.
o New functions cdplot() and spineplot() for conditional density
plots and spine plots or spinograms. Spine plots are now used
instead of bar plots for x-y scatterplots where y is a factor.
o checkDocFiles() in package 'tools' now checks for bad \usage
lines (syntactically invalid R code).
o The nonparametric variants of cor.test() now behave better in
the presence of ties. The "spearman" method uses the asymptotic
approximation in that case, and the "kendall" method likewise,
but adds a correction for ties (this is not necessary in the
Spearman case).
o The X11 dataentry() now has support for X Input Methods
(contributed by Ei-ji Nakama).
o density() is now an S3 generic where density.default() {former
density()} has new argument 'weights' for specifying observation
masses different than the default 1/N -- based on a suggestion and
code from Adrian Baddeley.
o download.packages() now carries on if it encounters a download
error (e.g. a repository with a corrupt index).
o dump() now skips missing objects with a warning rather than
throw an error.
o Added "POSIXlt" methods for duplicated() and unique().
o Function encoded_text_to_latex() in package tools translates
Latin 1,2,9 and UTF-8 encoded character vectors to LaTeX
escape sequences where appropriate.
o encodeString() allows justify = "none" for consistency with
format.default(). Some argument names have been lengthened
for clarity.
o file(), fifo() and pipe() now (if possible) report a reason
if they fail to open a connection.
o format.default() now has a 'width' argument, and 'justify' can
now centre character strings.
format.default() has new arguments 'na.encode' to control
whether NA character strings are encoded (true by default),
and 'scientific' to control the use of fixed/scientific
notation for real/complex numbers.
How format() works on a list is now documented, and uses
arguments consistently with their usage on an atomic vector.
o format.info() now has a 'digits' argument, and is documented
to work for all atomic vectors (it used to work for all but
raw vectors.).
o New function glob2rx() for translating `wildcard' aka `globbing'
to regular expressions.
o There is a new function gregexpr() which generalizes regexpr()
to search for all matches in each of the input strings (not
just the first match).
o [g]sub() now have a 'useBytes' argument like grep() and regexpr().
o [g]sub(perl = TRUE) support \L and \U in the replacement.
o iconv() has been moved from 'utils' to 'base'.
o identify()'s default method has additional arguments 'atpen'
and 'tolerance' (following S).
o KalmanForecast() and KalmanLike() now have an optional argument
fast=FALSE to prevent their arguments being modified.
o Exact p-values are available in ks.test() for the one-sided and
two-sided one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests.
o labels() now has a method for "dist" objects (replacing that
for names() which was withdrawn in 2.1.0).
o library() now explicitly checks for the existence of
directories in 'lib.loc': this avoids some warning messages.
o loadNamespace(keep.source=) now applies only to that namespace
and not others it might load to satisfy imports: this is now
consistent with library().
o match.arg() has a new argument 'several.ok = FALSE'.
o max.col() has a new argument for non-random behavior in the
case of ties.
o memory.profile() now uses the type names returned by typeof()
and no longer has two unlabelled entries.
o methods() now warns if it appears to have been called on a
non-generic function.
o The default mosaicplot() method by default draws grey boxes.
o nlminb(), similar to that in S-PLUS, added to package 'stats'.
o New algorithm "port" (the nl2sol algorithm available in the
Port library on netlib) added to the nls() function in the
'stats' package.
o object.size() now supports more types, including external
pointers and weak references.
o options() now returns its result in alphabetical order, and is
documented more comprehensively and accurately. (Now all
options used in base R are documented, including
platform-specific ones.)
Some options are now set in the package which makes use of
them (grDevices, stats or utils) if not already set when the
package is loaded.
o New option("OutDec") to set the decimal point for output conversions.
o New option("add.smooth") to add smoothers to a plot, currently
only used by plot.lm().
o pie() has new optional arguments 'clockwise' and 'init.angle'.
o plot.lm() has two new plots (for 'which' = 5 or 6), plotting
residuals or cook distances versus (transformed) leverages - unless
these are constant. Further, the new argument 'add.smooth' adds a
loess smoother to the point plots by default, and 'qqline = TRUE'
adds a qqline() to the normal plot.
The default for 'sub.caption' has been improved for long calls.
o R.home() has been expanded to return the paths to components
(which can as from this version be installed elsewhere).
o readbin() and writeBin() now support raw vectors as well as
filenames and connections.
o read.dcf() can now read gzipped files.
o read.table() now passes 'allowEscapes' to scan().
o sample(x, size, prob, replace = TRUE) now uses a faster
algorithm if there are many reasonably probable values. (This
does mean the results will be different from earlier versions
of R.) The speedup is modest unless 'x' is very large _and_
'prob' is very diffuse so that thousands of distinct values
will be generated with an appreciable frequency.
o scatter.smooth() now works a bit more like other plotting
functions (e.g., accepts a data frame for argument 'x').
Improvements suggested by Kevin Wright.
o signif() on complex numbers now rounds jointly to give the
requested number of digits in the larger component, not
independently for each component.
o New generic function simulate() in the 'stats' package with
methods for some classes of fitted models.
o smooth.spline() has a new argument 'keep.data' which allows to
provide residuals() and fitted() methods for smoothing splines.
o Attempting source(file, chdir=TRUE) with a URL or connection
for 'file' now gives a warning and ignores 'chdir'.
o source() closes its input file after parsing it rather than
after executing the commands, as used to happen prior to
2.1.0. (This is probably only significant on Windows where
the file is locked for a much shorter time.)
o split(), split<-(), unsplit() now have a new argument 'drop = FALSE',
by default not dropping empty levels; this is *not* back compatible.
o sprintf() now supports asterisk `*' width or precision
specification (but not both) as well as `*1$' to `*99$'. Also the
handling of `%' as conversion specification terminator is now
left to the system and doesn't affect following specifications.
o The plot method for stl() now allows the colour of the range
bars to be set (default unchanged at "light gray").
o Added tclServiceMode() function to the tcltk package to allow
updating to be suspended.
o terms.formula() no longer allows '.' in a formula unless there
is a (non-empty) 'data' argument or 'allowDotAsName = TRUE' is
supplied. We have found several cases where 'data' had not
been passed down to terms() and so '.' was interpreted as a
single variable leading to incorrect results.
o New functions trans3d(), the 3D -> 2D utility from persp()'s
example, and extendrange(), both in package 'grDevices'.
o TukeyHSD() now returns p-values adjusted for multiple comparisons
(based on a patch contributed by Fernando Henrique Ferraz P. da Rosa).
o New functions URLencode() and URLdecode(), particularly for use
with file:// URLs. These are used by e.g. browse.env(),
download.file(), download.packages() and various help() print
methods.
o Functions utf8ToInt() and intToUtf8() to work with UTF-8
encoded character strings (irrespective of locale or OS-level
UTF-8 support).
o [dqp]wilcox and wilcox.test work better with one very large sample
size and an extreme first argument.
o write() has a new argument 'sep'.
o write.csv[2] now also support row.names = FALSE.
o The specification of the substitutions done when processing
Renviron files is more liberal: see ?Startup. It now
accepts forms like R_LIBS=${HOME}/Rlibrary:${WORKGRP}/R/lib .
o Added recommendation that packages have an overview man page
<pkg>-package.Rd, and the promptPackage() function to create a
skeleton version.
o Replacement indexing of a data frame by a logical matrix index
containing NAs is allowed in a few more cases, in particular
always when the replacement value has length one.
o Conversion of .Rd files to latex now handles encoding more
comprehensively, including some support for UTF-8.
o The internal regex code has been upgraded to glibc-2.3.5.
Apart from a number of bug fixes, this should be somewhat
faster, especially in UTF-8 locales.
o PCRE has been updated to version 6.2.
o zlib has been updated to version 1.2.3.
o bzip2 has been updated to version 1.0.3.
o Complex arithmetic is now done by C99 complex types where
supported. This is likely to boost performance, but is
subject to the accuracy with which it has been implemented.
o The printing of complex numbers has changed, handling numbers
as a whole rather than in two parts. So both real and
imaginary parts are shown to the same accuracy, with the
'digits' parameter referring to the accuracy of the larger
component, and both components are shown in fixed or
scientific notation (unless one is entirely zero when it is
always shown in fixed notation).
o Error messages from .C() and .Fortran(), and from parsing errors,
are now more informative.
o The date and date-time functions work better with dates more
than 5000 years away from 1970-01-01 (by making dubious
assumptions about the calendar in use).
o There is now a traditional Chinese translation, and a much more
extensive Russian translation.
DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT
o Capability "IEEE754" is defunct.
o loadURL() is defunct: use load(url()).
o delay() is defunct: use delayedAssign() instead.
o The 'CRAN' argument to update.packages(), old.packages(),
new.packages(), download.packages() and install.packages() is
defunct in favour of 'repos'.
o write.table0() is deprecated in favour of the much faster
write.table().
o format.char() is deprecated in favour of format.default().
o R_HOME/etc/Rprofile is no longer looked for if
R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site does not exist. (This has been
undocumented since R 1.4.0.)
o CRAN.packages() is deprecated in favour of available.packages().
o Rd.sty no longer processes pre-2.0.0 conversions containing \Link.
o The stubs for the defunct device GNOME/gnome have been removed.
o print.matrix() (which has been identical to print.default since
R 1.7.0) has been removed.
INSTALLATION
o LDFLAGS now defaults to -L/usr/local/lib64 on most Linux
64-bit OSes (but not ia64). The use of lib/lib64 can be
overridden by the new variable LIBnn.
o The default installation directory is now ${prefix}/${LIBnn}/R,
/usr/local/lib64/R on most 64-bit Linux OSes and /usr/local/lib/R
elsewhere.
o The places where the doc, include and share directory trees are
installed can be specified independently: see the R-admin manual.
o We now test for wctrans_t, as apparently some broken OSes have
wctrans but not wctrans_t (which is required by the relevant
standards) .
o Any external BLAS found is now tested to see if the complex
routine zdotu works correctly: this provides a compatibility
test of compiler return conventions.
o Installation without NLS is now cleaner, and does not install
any message catalogues.
o src/modules/lapack/dlamc.f is now compiled with -ffloat-store
if f2c/gcc are used, as well as if g77 is used.
o All the Fortran code has been checked to be fully F77
compliant so there are no longer any warnings from F95
compilers such as gfortran.
o The (not-recommended) options --with-system-zlib,
--with-system-bzlib and -with-system-pcre now have 'system' in
the name.
o If a Java runtime environment is detected at configure time
its library path is appended to LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent.
New Java-related variables JAVA_HOME (path to JRE/JDK), JAVA_PROG
(path to Java interpreter), JAVA_LD_PATH (Java library path)
and JAVA_LIBS (flags to link against JNI) are made available
in Makeconf.
o Ei-ji Nakama was contributed a patch for FPU control with the
Intel compilers on ix86 Linux.
MAC OS X INSTALLATION
o --with-blas="-framework vecLib" --with-lapack and
--with-aqua are now the default configure options.
o The default framework version name was changed to not contain
the patch level (i.e. it is now 2.2 instead of 2.2.0). Also
it can be overridden at configure time by setting FW_VERSION
to the desired name.
o The Rmath stand-alone library is now correctly installed inside
the R.framework if R was configured as a framework. In
addition, make install-Rmath-framework will install a
stand-alone Rmath framework in /Library/Frameworks (unless
overridden by RMATH_FRAMEWORK_DIR specifying full framework
path and name including the .framework extension).
PACKAGE INSTALLATION
o The encoding for a packages' 00Index.html is chosen from the
Encoding: field (if any) of the DESCRIPTION file and from the
\encoding{} fields of any Rd files with non-ASCII titles.
If there are conflicts, first-found wins with a warning.
o R_HOME/doc/html/packages.html is now remade by R not Perl code.
This may result in small changes in layout and a change in
encoding (to UTF-8 where supported).
o The return value of new.packages() is now updated for any
packages which may be installed.
o available.packages() will read a compressed PACKAGES.gz file in
preference to PACKAGES if available on the repository: this
will reduce considerably the download time on a dialup connection.
The downloaded information about a repository is cached for the
current R session.
o The information about library trees found by
installed.packages() is cached for the current session, and
updated only if the modification date of the top-level
directory has been changed.
o A data index is now installed for a package with a 'data' dir
but no 'man' dir (even though it will have undocumented data objects).
o contrib.url path for type="mac.binary" has changed from
bin/macosx/<version> to bin/macosx/<arch>/contrib/<version>
where <arch> corresponds to R.version$arch
UTILITIES
o checkFF() used by R CMD check has since R 2.0.0 not reported
missing PACKAGE arguments when testing installed packages with
namespaces. It now
- treats installed and source packages in the same way.
- reports missing arguments unless they are in a function in
the namespace with a useDynLib declaration (as the
appropriate DLL for such calls can be searched for).
o Rd2dvi sets the encoding(s) used appropriately. If UTF-8
encoding is used, latex >= 2003/12/01 is required.
o codoc() allows help files named pkg_name-defunct.Rd to have
undocumented arguments (and not just base-defunct.Rd).
C-LEVEL FACILITIES
o C function massdist() {called from density()} has new argument
'xmass' (= weights).
o Raw vectors passed to .C() are now passed as unsigned char *
rather than as SEXPs. (Wish of Keith Frost, PR#7853)
o The search for symbols in a .C/.Call/... call without a
package argument now searches for an enclosing namespace and
so finds functions defined within functions in a namespace.
o R_max_col() has new (5th) argument '*ties_meth' allowing
non-random behavior in the case of ties.
o The header files have been rationalized: the BLAS routine
LSAME is now declared in BLAS.h not Linpack.h, Applic.h no
longer duplicates routines from Linpack.h, and Applic.h is
divided into API and non-API sections.
o memory.c has been instrumented so that Valgrind can track R's
internal memory management. To use this, configure using
--with-valgrind-instrumentation=level
where level is 1 or 2. Both levels will find more bugs with
gctorture(TRUE). Level 2 makes Valgrind run extremely slowly.
o Some support for raw vectors has been added to Rdefines.h.
o R_BaseEnv has been added, to refer to the base environment.
This is currently equal to R_NilValue, but it will change in
a future release.
BUG FIXES
o %/% has been adjusted to make x == (x %% y) + y * ( x %/% y )
more likely in cases when extended-precision registers were
interfering.
o Operations on POSIXct objects (such as seq(), max() and
subsetting) try harder to preserve time zones and warn if
inconsistent time zones are used.
o as.function.default() no longer asks for a bug report when
given an invalid body. (PR#1880, PR#7535, PR#7702)
o Hershey fonts and grid output (and therefore lattice output)
now rescale correctly in fit-to-window resizing on a Windows
graphics device. Line widths also scale now.
o Plotmath has more support for multibyte characters (contributed
by Ei-ji Nakama).
o The X11() device now hints the window manager so that decorations
appear reliably under e.g. the GNOME WM (contributed
by Ei-ji Nakama).
o Subsetting a matrix or an array as a vector used to attempt to
use the row names to name the result, even though the
array might be longer than the row names. Now this is only
done for 1D arrays when it is done in all cases, even matrix
indexing. (Tidies up after the fix to PR#937.)
o Constants in mathlib are declared 'const static double' to
avoid performance issues with the Intel Itanium compiler.
o The parser checks the format of numeric constants more
thoroughly so for example '123E-' is no longer valid.
o contourLines() no longer requires an open device (used to
start a device unnecessarily). Fix suggested by Barry Rowlingson.
o capabilities() used partial matching but was not documented
to: it no longer does so.
o kernel(1,0) printed wrongly; kernel(<name-string>, *) now returns
a named kernel in all cases; plot(kernel(.),..) is more flexible.
o qgamma(1,s) didn't give +Inf for some s.
o installed.packages() and download.packages() now always
return a matrix as documented, possibly with 0 rows (rather than
a 0-length character vector or NULL).
o Arithmetic operations on data frames no longer coerce the
names to syntatically valid names.
o Units are now properly recycled in grid layouts
when 'widths' or 'heights' are shorter than the number of
columns or rows (PR#8014).
o DF <- data.frame(A=1:2, B=3:4); DF[1, 1:3] <- NULL gave a wrong
error message.
o spline()/spinefun()'s C code had a memory access buglet which
never lead to incorrect results. (PR#8030)
o sum() was promoting logical arguments to double not integer
(as min() and other members of its group do).
o loess() had a bug causing it to occasionally miscalculate
standard errors (PR#7956). Reported by Benjamin Tyner, fixed
by Berwin Turlach.
o library(keep.source=) was ignored if the package had a
namespace (the setting of options("keep.source.pkgs") was
always used).
o hist.POSIXct() and hist.Date() now respect par("xaxt").
o The 'vfont' argument was not supported correctly in title(),
mtext(), and axis(). The 'vfont' argument is superseded by
the par(family=) approach introduced in 2.0.0. This bug-fix
just updates the warning messages and documentation to
properly reflect the new order of things.
o The C-level function PrintGenericVector could overflow if
asked to print a length-1 character vector of several thousand
characters. This could happen when printing a list matrix,
and was fatal up to 2.1.1 and silently truncated in 2.1.1 patched.
o What happened for proc.time() and system.time() on
(Unix-alike) systems which do not support timing was
incorrectly documented. (They both exist but throw an error.)
Further, systen.time() would give an error in its on.exit
expression.
o weighted.residuals() now does sensible things for glm() fits:
in particular it now agrees with an lm() fit for a Gaussian glm()
fit. (PR#7961).
o The 'lm' and 'glm' methods for add1() took the weights and
offset from the original fit, and so gave errors in the
(dubious) usage where the upper scope resulted in a smaller
number of cases to fit (e.g. by omitting missing values in new
variables). (PR#8049)
o demo() had a 'device' argument that did nothing (although it
was documented to): it has been removed.
o Setting new levels on a factor dropped all existing
attributes, including class "ordered".
o format.default(justify="none") now by default converts NA
character strings, as the other values always did.
o format.info() often gave a different field width from format()
for character vectors (e.g. including missing values or
non-printable characters).
o axis() now ensures that if 'labels' are supplied as character
strings or expressions then 'at' is also supplied (since the
calculated value for 'at' can change under resizing).
o Defining S4 methods for "[" had resulted in changed behavior of S3
dispatch in a very rare case which no longer happens.
o Fixed segfault when PostScript font loading fails, e.g., when
R is unable to find afm files (reported by Ivo Welch).
o R CMD BATCH <file> now also works when <file> does not end in a
newline on Unix-alike platforms.
o terms.formula() got confused if the 'data' argument was a list with
non-syntactic names.
o prompt() and hence package.skeleton() now produce *.Rd files that
give no errors (but warnings) when not edited, much more often.
o promptClass() and promptMethods() now also escape "%" e.g. in '%*%'
and the latter gives a message about the file written.
o wilcox.test() now warns when conf.level is set higher than
achievable, preventing errors (PR#3666) and incorrect answers
with extremely small sample sizes.
o The default (protection pointer) stack size (the default for
'--max-ppsize') has been increased from 10000 to 50000 in order to
match the increased default options("expressions") (in R 2.1.0).
o The R front-end was expecting --gui=tk not Tk as documented,
and rejecting --gui=X11.
o Rdconv -t latex protected only the first << and >> in a chunk
against conversion to guillemets.
o callNextMethod() and callGeneric() have fixes related to
handling arguments.
o ls.diag() now works for fits with missing data. (PR#8139)
o window.default() had an incorrect tolerance and so sometimes
created too short a series if 'start' or 'end' were zero.
o Some (fairly pointless) cases of reshape left a
temporary id variable in the result (PR#8152)
o R CMD build used 'tar xhf' which is invalid on FreeBSD systems
(and followed tar chf, so there could be no symbolic links in
the tarball).
o Subassignment of length zero vectors to NULL gave garbage
answers. (PR#8157)
o Automatic coercion of raw vectors to lists was missing, so for a
list (or data frame) z, z[["a"]] <- raw_vector did not work
and now does. This also affected DF$a <- raw_vector for a
data frame DF.
o The internal code for commandArgs() was missing PROTECTs.
o The width for strwrap() was used as one less than specified.
o R CMD INSTALL was not cleaning up after an unsuccessful
install of a non-bundle which was not already installed.
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From dmurdoch at pair.com Tue Jun 17 01:04:45 2003
From: dmurdoch at pair.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 19:04:45 -0400
Subject: Windows binary for 1.7.1 uploaded to CRAN
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I've built the Windows binary for 1.7.1, and sent it to CRAN. It
should be visible within a few hours, and will soon propagate to the
mirrors.
Duncan Murdoch
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From luke at stat.uiowa.edu Fri Mar 6 14:38:27 2009
From: luke at stat.uiowa.edu (luke at stat.uiowa.edu)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:38:27 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Travel funding for DSC/useR 2009 for young researchers at U.S.
institutions
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
*** Travel and Accommodation Support ***
Funds from the U.S. National Science Foundation may be available to
provide partial support for travel and accommodation for some graduate
students and junior faculty at U.S. post-secondary institutions to
attend DSC 2009 and useR 2009. If you wish to apply for this support,
please send an application to luke at stat.uiowa.edu. Your application
should include
a brief CV
a copy of your abstract if you have submitted a paper or a poster
a statement that demonstrates your eligibility, your need for
support, and an amount of support requested
students should include a brief letter of support from their
supervisor
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From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Wed Apr 16 15:42:04 2003
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 16 Apr 2003 15:42:04 +0200
Subject: R-1.7.0 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I've rolled up R-1.7.0.tgz a short while ago. This is a new version
with major changes in the methods/class area and with namespaces used
much more widely than before. Several routines now use the faster and
more modern LAPACK library. Also notice that the underscore is now
strongly deprecated as an assignment operator.
There are also a bunch of new functions and an assortment of bugs have
been fixed.
You can get it from
http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/R-1.7.0.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:
292dbe4dc47e6b492ff72a62471654ca R-1.7.0.tgz
693d29ea3959f1b862704b59367e4ac1 R-1.7.0.tgz-split.aa
42b3fa5bc17fc3151eaabd2db0f530ca R-1.7.0.tgz-split.ab
3fa95fa9661b6ff3ff33936ca57bdb89 R-1.7.0.tgz-split.ac
c124f1be4d35676975527bc19efbd579 R-1.7.0.tgz-split.ad
bb3a82202a8f113abf0260b6b585dc92 R-1.7.0.tgz-split.ae
84720f839a564abc8255c9a4b8c2980d R-1.7.0.tgz-split.af
cfe0314cfc1ceea9ec74d00919e82865 R-1.7.0.tgz-split.ag
For the R Core Team,
Peter D.
Here's the relevant part of the NEWS file:
CHANGES IN R VERSION 1.7.0
USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
o solve(), chol(), eigen() and svd() now use LAPACK routines
unless a new back-compatibility option is turned on. The
signs and normalization of eigen/singular vectors may change
from earlier versions.
o The `methods', `modreg', `mva', `nls' and `ts' packages
are now attached by default at startup (in addition to `ctest').
The option "defaultPackages" has been added which contains the
initial list of packages. See ?Startup and ?options for details.
Note that .First() is no longer used by R itself.
class() now always (not just when `methods' is attached) gives
a non-null class, and UseMethod() always dispatches on the
class that class() returns. This means that methods like
foo.matrix and foo.integer will be used. Functions oldClass()
and oldClass<-() get and set the "class" attribute as R
without `methods' used to.
o The default random number generators have been changed to
`Mersenne-Twister' and `Inversion'. A new RNGversion()
function allows you to restore the generators of an earlier R
version if reproducibility is required.
o Namespaces can now be defined for packages other than `base':
see `Writing R Extensions'. This hides some internal objects
and changes the search path from objects in a namespace. All
the base packages (except methods and tcltk) have namespaces,
as well as the recommended packages `KernSmooth', `MASS',
`boot', `class', `nnet', `rpart' and `spatial'.
o Formulae are not longer automatically simplified when terms()
is called, so the formulae in results may still be in the
original form rather than the equivalent simplified form
(which may have reordered the terms): the results are now
much closer to those of S.
o The tables for plotmath, Hershey and Japanese have been moved
from the help pages (example(plotmath) etc) to demo(plotmath) etc.
o Errors and warnings are sent to stderr not stdout on
command-line versions of R (Unix and Windows).
o The R_X11 module is no longer loaded until it is needed, so
do test that x11() works in a new Unix-alike R installation.
NEW FEATURES
o if() and while() give a warning if called with a vector condition.
o Installed packages under Unix without compiled code are no
longer stamped with the platform and can be copied to other
Unix-alike platforms (but not to other OSes because of
potential problems with line endings and OS-specific help files).
o The internal random number generators will now never return
values of 0 or 1 for runif. This might affect simulation
output in extremely rare cases. Note that this is not
guaranteed for user-supplied random-number generators, nor
when the standalone Rmath library is used.
o When assigning names to a vector, a value that is too short is
padded by character NAs. (Wishlist part of PR#2358)
o It is now recommended to use the 'SystemRequirements:' field in
the DESCRIPTION file for specifying dependencies external to the
R system.
o Output text connections no longer have a line-length limit.
o On platforms where vsnprintf does not return the needed buffer
size the output line-length limit for fifo(), gzfile() and
bzfile() has been raised from 10k to 100k chars.
o The Math group generic does not check the number of arguments
supplied before dispatch: it used to if the default method had
one argument but not if it had two. This allows trunc.POSIXt()
to be called via the group generic trunc().
o Logical matrix replacement indexing of data frames is now
implemented (interpreted as if the lhs was a matrix).
o Recursive indexing of lists is allowed, so x[[c(4,2)]] is
shorthand for x[[4]][[2]] etc. (Wishlist PR#1588)
o Most of the time series functions now check explicitly for a
numeric time series, rather than fail at a later stage.
o The postscript output makes use of relative moves, and so is
somewhat more compact.
o %*% and crossprod() for complex arguments make use of BLAS
routines and so may be much faster on some platforms.
o arima() has coef(), logLik() (and hence AIC) and vcov() methods.
o New function as.difftime() for time-interval data.
o basename() and dirname() are now vectorized.
o biplot.default() {mva} allows `xlab' and `ylab' parameters to
be set (without partially matching to `xlabs' and `ylabs').
(Thanks to Uwe Ligges.)
o New function capture.output() to send printed output from an expression
to a connection or a text string.
o ccf() (pckage ts) now coerces its x and y arguments to class "ts".
o chol() and chol2inv() now use LAPACK routines by default.
o as.dist(.) is now idempotent, i.e., works for "dist" objects.
o Generic function confint() and `lm' method (formerly in
package MASS, which has `glm' and `nls' methods).
o New function constrOptim() for optimisation under linear inequality
constraints.
o Add `difftime' subscript method and methods for the group
generics. (Thereby fixing PR#2345)
o download.file() can now use HTTP proxies which require `basic'
username/password authentication.
o dump() has a new argument `envir'. The search for named
objects now starts by default in the environment from which
dump() is called.
o The edit.matrix() and edit.data.frame() editors can now handle
logical data.
o New argument `local' for example() (suggested by Andy Liaw).
o New function file.symlink() to create symbolic file links
where supported by the OS.
o New generic function flush() with a method to flush connections.
o New function force() to force evaluation of a formal argument.
o New functions getFromNamespace(), fixInNamespace() and
getS3method() to facilitate developing code in packages with
namespaces.
o glm() now accepts `etastart' and `mustart' as alternative ways
to express starting values.
o New function gzcon() which wraps a connection and provides
(de)compression compatible with gzip.
load() now uses gzcon(), so can read compressed saves from
suitable connections.
o help.search() can now reliably match individual aliases and
keywords, provided that all packages searched were installed
using R 1.7.0 or newer.
o hist.default() now returns the nominal break points, not those
adjusted for numerical tolerances.
To guard against unthinking use, `include.lowest' in
hist.default() is now ignored, with a warning, unless `breaks'
is a vector. (It either generated an error or had no effect,
depending how prettification of the range operated.)
o New generic functions influence(), hatvalues() and dfbeta()
with lm and glm methods; the previously normal functions rstudent(),
rstandard(), cooks.distance() and dfbetas() became generic.
These have changed behavior for glm objects -- all originating from
John Fox' car package.
o interaction.plot() has several new arguments, and the legend
is not clipped anymore by default. It internally uses axis(1,*)
instead of mtext().
This also addresses "bugs" PR#820, PR#1305, PR#1899.
o New isoreg() function and class for isotonic regression
(`modreg' package).
o La.chol() and La.chol2inv() now give interpretable error
messages rather than LAPACK error codes.
o legend() has a new `plot' argument. Setting it `FALSE' gives
size information without plotting (suggested by U.Ligges).
o library() was changed so that when the methods package is
attached it no longer complains about formal generic functions
not specific to the library.
o list.files()/dir() have a new argument `recursive'.
o lm.influence() has a new `do.coef' argument allowing *not* to
compute casewise changed coefficients. This makes plot.lm() much
quicker for large data sets.
o load() now returns invisibly a character vector of the names
of the objects which were restored.
o New convenience function loadURL() to allow loading data files
from URLs (requested by Frank Harrell).
o New function mapply(), a multivariate lapply().
o New function md5sum() in package tools to calculate MD5
checksums on files (e.g. on parts of the R installation).
o medpolish() {package eda} now has an `na.rm' argument (PR#2298).
o methods() now looks for registered methods in namespaces, and
knows about many objects that look like methods but are not.
o mosaicplot() has a new default for `main', and supports the
`las' argument (contributed by Uwe Ligges and Wolfram Fischer).
o An attempt to open() an already open connection will be detected
and ignored with a warning. This avoids improperly closing
some types of connections if they are opened repeatedly.
o optim(method = "SANN") can now cover combinatorial optimization
by supplying a move function as the `gr' argument (contributed
by Adrian Trapletti).
o PDF files produced by pdf() have more extensive information
fields, including the version of R that produced them.
o On Unix(-alike) systems the default PDF viewer is now determined
during configuration, and available as the 'pdfviewer' option.
o pie(...) has always accepted graphical pars but only passed
them on to title(). Now pie(, cex=1.5) works.
o plot.dendrogram (`mva' package) now draws leaf labels if present
by default.
o New plot.design() function as in S.
o The postscript() and PDF() drivers now allow the title to be set.
o New function power.anova.test(), contributed by Claus Ekstr?m.
o power.t.test() now behaves correctly for negative delta in the
two-tailed case.
o power.t.test() and power.prop.test() now have a `strict'
argument that includes rejections in the "wrong tail" in the
power calculation. (Based in part on code suggested by Ulrich
Halekoh.)
o prcomp() is now fast for n x m inputs with m >> n.
o princomp() no longer allows the use of more variables than
units: use prcomp() instead.
o princomp.formula() now has principal argument `formula', so
update() can be used.
o Printing an object with attributes now dispatches on the
class(es) of the attributes. See ?print.default for the fine
print. (PR#2506)
o print.matrix() and prmatrix() are now separate functions.
prmatrix() is the old S-compatible function, and
print.matrix() is a proper print method, currently identical
to print.default(). prmatrix() and the old print.matrix()
did not print attributes of a matrix, but the new print.matrix()
does.
o print.summary.{lm,glm} now default to symbolic.cor = FALSE, but
symbolic.cor can be passed to the print methods from the
summary methods. print.summary.{lm,glm} print correlations to
2 decimal places, and the symbolic printout avoids abbreviating
labels.
o If a prompt() method is called with 'filename' as 'NA', a
list-style representation of the documentation shell generated
is returned. New function promptData() for documenting objects
as data sets.
o qqnorm() and qqline() have an optional logical argument
`datax' to transpose the plot (S-PLUS compatibility).
o qr() now has the option to use LAPACK routines, and the
results can be used by the helper routines qr.coef(), qr.qy()
and qr.qty(). The LAPACK-using versions may be much faster
for large matrices (using an optimized BLAS) but are less
flexible.
o QR objects now have class "qr", and solve.qr() is now just the
method for solve() for the class.
o New function r2dtable() for generating random samples of two-way
tables with given marginals using Patefield's algorithm.
o rchisq() now has a non-centrality parameter `ncp', and there's a
C API for rnchisq().
o New generic function reorder() with a dendrogram method;
new order.dendrogram() and heatmap().
o require() has a new argument, character.only,
-- to make it align with library.
o New functions rmultinom() and dmultinom(), the first one with
a C API.
o New function runmed() for fast runnning medians (`modreg' package).
o New function slice.index() for identifying indexes with respect
to slices of an array.
o solve.default(a) now gives the dimnames one would expect.
o stepfun() has a new `right' argument for right-continuous step
function construction.
o str() now shows ordered factors different from unordered ones.
It also differentiates "NA" and as.character(NA), also for factor
levels.
o symnum() has a new logical argument `abbr.colnames'.
o summary(<logical>) now mentions NA's as suggested by
G?ran Brostr?m.
o summaryRprof() now prints times with a precision appropriate
to the sampling interval, rather than always to 2dp.
o New function Sys.getpid() to get the process ID of the R session.
o table() now allows exclude= with factor arguments (requested by
Michael Friendly).
o The tempfile() function now takes an optional second argument
giving the directory name.
o The ordering of terms for terms.formula(keep.order=FALSE) is
now defined on the help page and used consistently, so that
repeated calls will not alter the ordering (which is why
delete.response() was failing: see the bug fixes). The
formula is not simplified unless the new argument `simplify'
is true.
o added "[" method for terms objects.
o New argument `silent' to try().
o ts() now allows arbitrary values for y in start/end = c(x, y):
it always allowed y < 1 but objected to y > frequency.
o unique.default() now works for POSIXct objects, and hence so
does factor().
o Package tcltk now allows return values from the R side to the
Tcl side in callbacks and the R_eval command. If the return
value from the R function or expression is of class "tclObj"
then it will be returned to Tcl.
o A new HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL graphical user interface using the tcltk
package is provided. Currently, little more than a proof of concept.
It can be started by calling "R -g Tk" (this may change in later
versions) or by evaluating tkStartGUI(). Only Unix-like systems
for now. It is not too stable at this point; in particular, signal
handling is not working properly.
o Changes to support name spaces:
- Placing base in a name space can no longer be disabled by
defining the environment variable R_NO_BASE_NAMESPACE.
- New function topenv() to determine the nearest top level
environment (usually .GlobalEnv or a name space environment).
- Added name space support for packages that do not use methods.
o Formal classes and methods can be `sealed', by using the
corresponding argument to setClass or setMethod. New
functions isSealedClass() and isSealedMethod() test sealing.
o packages can now be loaded with version numbers. This allows
for multiple versions of files to be installed (and potentially
loaded). Some serious testing will be going on, but it should
have no effect unless specifically asked for.
INSTALLATION CHANGES
o TITLE files in packages are no longer used, the Title field
in the DESCRIPTION file being preferred. TITLE files will be
ignored in both installed packages and source packages.
o When searching for a Fortran 77 compiler, configure by default
now also looks for Fujitsu's frt and Compaq's fort, but no
longer for cf77 and cft77.
o Configure checks that mixed C/Fortran code can be run before
checking compatibility on ints and doubles: the latter test
was sometimes failing because the Fortran libraries were not
found.
o PCRE and bzip2 are built from versions in the R sources if the
appropriate library is not found.
o New configure option --with-lapack to allow high-performance
LAPACK libraries to be used: a generic LAPACK library will be
used if found. This option is not the default.
o New configure options --with-libpng, --with-jpeglib, --with-zlib,
--with-bzlib and --with-pcre, principally to allow these
libraries to be avoided if they are unsuitable.
o If the precious variable R_BROWSER is set at configure time
it overrides the automatic selection of the default browser.
It should be set to the full path unless the browser appears
at different locations on different client machines.
o Perl requirements are down again to 5.004 or newer.
o Autoconf 2.57 or later is required to build the configure
script.
o Configure provides a more comprehensive summary of its results.
o Index generation now happens when installing source packages
using R code in package tools. An existing 'INDEX' file is used
as is; otherwise, it is automatically generated from the \name
and \title entries in the Rd files. Data, demo and vignette
indices are computed from all available files of the respective
kind, and the corresponding index information (in the Rd files,
the 'demo/00Index' file, and the \VignetteIndexEntry{} entries,
respectively). These index files, as well as the package Rd
contents data base, are serialized as R objects in the 'Meta'
subdirectory of the top-level package directory, allowing for
faster and more reliable index-based computations (e.g., in
help.search()).
o The Rd contents data base is now computed when installing source
packages using R code in package tools. The information is
represented as a data frame without collapsing the aliases and
keywords, and serialized as an R object. (The 'CONTENTS' file
in Debian Control Format is still written, as it is used by the
HTML search engine.)
o A NAMESPACE file in root directory of a source package is copied
to the root of the package installation directory. Attempting to
install a package with a NAMESPACE file using --save signals an
error; this is a temporary measure.
DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT
o The assignment operator `_' will be removed in the next
release and users are now warned on every usage: you may even see
multiple warnings for each usage.
If environment variable R_NO_UNDERLINE is set to anything of
positive length then use of `_' becomes a syntax error.
o machine(), Machine() and Platform() are defunct.
o restart() is defunct. Use try(), as has long been recommended.
o The deprecated arguments `pkg' and `lib' of system.file() have
been removed.
o printNoClass() {methods} is deprecated (and moved to base,
since it was a copy of a base function).
o Primitives dataClass() and objWithClass() have been replaced
by class() and class<-(); they were internal support functions
for use by package methods.
o The use of SIGUSR2 to quit a running R process under Unix is
deprecated, the signal may need to be reclaimed for other
purposes.
UTILITIES
o R CMD check more compactly displays the tests of DESCRIPTION
meta-information. It now reports demos and vignettes without
available index information. Unless installation tests are
skipped, checking is aborted if the package dependencies cannot
be resolved at run time. Rd files are now also explicitly
checked for empty \name and \title entries. The examples are
always run with T and F redefined to give an error if used
instead of TRUE and FALSE.
o The Perl code to build help now removes an existing example
file if there are no examples in the current help file.
o R CMD Rdindex is now deprecated in favor of function Rdindex()
in package tools.
o Sweave() now encloses the Sinput and Soutput environments of
each chunk in an Schunk environment. This allows to fix some
vertical spacing problems when using the latex class slides.
C-LEVEL FACILITIES
o A full double-precision LAPACK shared library is made
available as -lRlapack. To use this include
$(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS) in PKG_LIBS.
o Header file R_ext/Lapack.h added. C declarations of BLAS
routines moved to R_ext/BLAS.h and included in R_ext/Applic.h
and R_ext/Linpack.h for backward compatibility.
o R will automatically call initialization and unload routines, if
present, in shared libraries/DLLs during dyn.load() and
dyn.unload() calls. The routines are named R_init_<dll name>
and R_unload_<dll name>, respectively. See the Writing R
Extensions Manual for more information.
o Routines exported directly from the R executable for use with
.C(), .Call(), .Fortran() and .External() are now accessed via
the registration mechanism (optionally) used by packages. The
ROUTINES file (in src/appl/) and associated scripts to
generate FFTab.h and FFDecl.h are no longer used.
o Entry point Rf_append is no longer in the installed headers
(but is still available). It is apparently unused.
o Many conflicts between other headers and R's can be avoided by
defining STRICT_R_HEADERS and/or R_NO_REMAP -- see `Writing R
Extensions' for details.
o New entry point R_GetX11Image and formerly undocumented
ptr_R_GetX11Image are in new header R_ext/GetX11Image. These
are used by package tkrplot.
BUG FIXES
o Sys.sleep() on Unix was having trouble with waits of less than 0.5s
o The fix to PR#2396 broke read.table() on files with CR line
endings. (PR#2469) Separate problem with this on Carbon MacOS
build fixed as well.
o Converting Sweave files to noweb syntax using SweaveSyntConv()
was broken.
o Printing numbers near the minimum could get the number of
significant figures wrong due to underflow: for example 4e-308
might print as 4.00000e-308. (Seen on some Windows builds,
and also on numbers around 1e-317 on Linux.)
o wilcox.test() could give integer overflow warnings on very long
vectors. Also added tests for numeric inputs, as per the help
page. (PR#2453)
o Printing unquoted character vectors containing escape
characters was computing the wrong length and hence
misaligning names. This was due to a bug in Rstrlen which
might have had other effects.
o if(logical(0)) and while(logical(0)) now report zero length,
not `missing value where logical is needed'.
o The gaussian() and inverse.gaussian() families were documented
to allow only one link, which has not been true in R for at
least four years.
o prmatrix() forced conversion to character if `na.print' was
used, and that conversion neither respected `digits' nor
`quote'.
o Rprof() might give misleading results for too small values of
`interval' and in practice the default 20ms was about as small
as is advisable on Linux. Now the interval is forced to be at
least one clock tick.
o summary.data.frame() was not giving interpretable results when
the data frame contained a data frame as a column. (PR#1891)
o delete.response() might re-order the rhs terms so prediction
might fail or even give incorrect results. (PR#2206)
o StructTS() now accepts numeric time series of integer storage mode.
o all(), any() now handle NAs as documented.
o Subsetting arrays to a result with 0 dimension(s) failed if
the array had dimnames. (PR#2507)
o If the call to data.frame() included 0-row arguments, it tried
to replicate them to the maximum number of rows, and failed if
this was 1 or more.
o replicate() now understands data frames to which na.omit() has
been applied.
o is.ts() was too liberal: a time series must have at least one point.
o methods() was sorting by package, not by name.
o symbols(thermometers=) was often giving a spurious warning about
the range.
o tcltk was using deprecated internals of the Tcl library when
accessing error messages. Not likely to be a user-visible
change.
o The automatic search for BLAS libs now tries Sun's libsunperf
the way the latest versions require. (PR#2530)
o str(array(1)) now does show the array.
str(Surv(...)) now works again.
o step(), add1.default() and drop1.default() now work somewhat
better if called from a function.
o page() was searching from the wrong environment, and so
searching base before the workspace.
o crossprod(Z) for complex Z was returning nonsense.
o La.chol2inv() gave incorrect results unless the matrix was square.
o When the POSIXt date functions were required to guess DST,
they sometimes guessed correctly that DST was in force but
converted a POSIXlt time as if standard time was given.
o c/rbind were not handling zero col/row matrices correctly.
(PR#2541 was one symptom.)
o approx() and approxfun() now work with 1 knot if
method = "constant". stepfun(), ecdf() and plot.stepfun() do so
as well.
o AIC.lm/default was failing if multiple objects and k were
specified. (PR#2518)
o removeMethods{methods} was broken. (PR#2519)
o summary.glm() had two `aic' components in the returned object.
o autoload() was returning the value of its last command, a
promise, even though it was documented to have no value.
As a result some packages (e.g. nlme) were loading packages
they meant to autoload.
o Fixes to methods and classes:
- show() is consistent with using setOldClass for S3 classes.
- several problems with the coerce and replace methods
generated by setIs have been fixed.
- more thorough tests & informative messages for invalid
`def' arguments to setGeneric
- setGeneric will now create the generic function even when
a generic of the same name already exists (it does issue
a warning).
o unz() connections could no longer be opened. (PR#2579)
o unique(ordered factor) returned an unordered factor. (PR#2591)
o x[] <- value coerced x to the mode of value if and only if x
had length 0! (Should only happen if x is null: PR#2590)
o lm() mislabelled the cols of the qr decomposition. (cause of PR#2586)
o data() looks for file extensions in an order prescribed in the
help file: previously whether foo.R or foo.csv was used was
locale-dependent.
o sys.function() now returns the actual function being evaluated in
the specified frame rather than one inferred from the call.
o match.call() now uses the definition of the actual function being
evaluated rather than one inferred from the call.
o abbreviate(*, dot = TRUE) now only adds a "." where abbreviations
did happen.
o Changing timezones in the POSIXt functions was not working on
some Linux systems, and this has been corrected.
o ks.test() in package ctest had numerical problems in the lower
tail of the asymptotic distribution (PR#2571).
o Sweave() now handles empty chunks at the end of files correctly.
o [<-() lost the object bit if coercion was involved.
o package::object wasn't being deparsed properly.
o seq.POSIXt() with `by' an object of class "difftime" ignored
the units.
o rank(c("B", NA)) no longer returns character.
o reference to by() added in ?tapply
o ?lm describes what happens with matrix response
o The X11 device has improved event handling. In particular it
used to often miss the last of a series of resize events.
o lm.influence() and related functions now work again for the
multivariate case and when there are zero weights.
o format( <character> ) now always keeps names and dimnames.
o table(factor(c(2,NA), exclude=NULL)) prints better now.
o predict(foo, type = "terms") and hence
residuals(foo, type = "partial") now work for lm and glm objects
with weights zero. Further, model.matrix() is now only called once.
o R CMD config now works correctly when called from a Makefile
using GNU make.
o The data.frame method for rbind() was
- converting character columns to factors,
- converting ordered factor columns to unordered factors,
- failing to append correctly a factor to a character column
and vice versa.
o as.hclust.twins() now does provide proper `labels', `method' and
`call' components.
o cycle() sometimes failed on a time series which started at a cycle
other than 1.
o read.dcf() read incorrectly files which did not end in a new line.
o read.socket() dropped certain non-alphanumeric characters. (PR#2639)
o termplot() handles missing data better (PR#2687,
<Mark.Bravington at csiro.au>)
o Corrected MacRoman encoding for Icircumflex etc.
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From Torsten.Hothorn at rzmail.uni-erlangen.de Wed Dec 19 13:50:27 2001
From: Torsten.Hothorn at rzmail.uni-erlangen.de (Torsten Hothorn)
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:50:27 +0100 (MET)
Subject: updates: exactRankTests, mvtnorm and maxstat
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0112191349240.19730-100000@artemis.imbe.med.uni-erlangen.de>
Hi,
following the release of R-1.4.0, new versions of the packages
* exactRankTests (0.6-0)
* mvtnorm (0.5-0)
and
* maxstat (0.5-2)
are available on CRAN. Several changes to the user-interfaces were necessary
(improvements, hopefully) and some new features are included, for example
in `exactRankTests':
* one- and two-sample permutation tests are available,
* new interface to `pperm',
* exact Hodges-Lehmann confidence intervals in `wilcox.exact' (PR#1150),
* `perm.test' and `wilcox.exact' are generic and offer a formula interface.
Major contributions came (and come) from Kurt Hornik, he
is now co-author of `exactRankTests'.
In `mvtnorm':
* `{dr}mvnorm' moved from package `e1071' to `mvtnorm' (thanks to Fritz
Leisch!),
* `pmv{t}norm' has a slightly new interface: the length of lower, upper and
mean are recycled to the length of the largest and it is possible to
specify either the correlation or covariance matrix.
In `maxstat':
* `maxstat.test' is now generic and provides a formula interface as well as a
print and plot method,
* it depends on mvtnorm-0.5-0 and exactRankTests-0.6-0.
Known bugs were fixed, see the CHANGES file in each of the packages for
details.
Torsten
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From P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Mon Oct 20 11:33:08 2008
From: P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:33:08 +0200
Subject: R 2.8.0 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I've rolled up R-2.8.0.tar.gz a short while ago. This is a development
release which contains a number of new features.
Also, a number of mostly minor bugs have been fixed. See the full list
of changes below.
You can get it (later today) from
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.8.0.tar.gz
or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you. In case of
impatience, try http://www.biostat.ku.dk/~pd/R-release
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:
70447ae7f2c35233d3065b004aa4f331 INSTALL
433182754c05c2cf7a04ad0da474a1d0 README
4f004de59e24a52d0f500063b4603bcb OONEWS
ff4bd9073ef440b1eb43b1428ce96872 ONEWS
2e66a7217f24f1d7961275438243adc7 NEWS
1ad28cbc84485ccdf4ce5721b34ed645 THANKS
070cca21d9f8a6af15f992edb47a24d5 AUTHORS
a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343 COPYING.LIB
eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a COPYING
020479f381d5f9038dcb18708997f5da RESOURCES
5717a4e29823dd379e4a6cf82e820eb2 FAQ
5213c9644aec984278b669df1a63a2ce R-2.8.0.tar.gz
5213c9644aec984278b669df1a63a2ce R-latest.tar.gz
This is the relevant part of the NEWS file:
CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.8.0
SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
o var(), cov(), cor(), sd() etc now by default (when 'use' is not
specified) return NA in many cases where they signalled an
error before.
NEW FEATURES
o abbreviate() gains an optional argument 'strict' allowing cheap
and fast strict abbrevation.
o The "lm" methods of add1(), anova() and drop1() warn if they are
mis-used on an essentially exact fit.
o as.array() is now generic, gains a '...' argument.
o New function as.hexmode() for converting integers in hex format.
format.hexmode() and as.character.hexmode() gain an 'upper.case'
argument.
o bitmap() and dev2bitmap() gain support for anti-aliasing.
The default type has been changed to 'png16m', which supports
anti-aliasing.
o Box.test() gains a 'fitdf' argument to adjust the degrees of
freedom if applied to residuals.
o browseURL() has a new argument 'encodeIfNeeded' to use
URLencode() in cases where it seems likely that would be
helpful. (Unfortunately, those are hard to guess.)
o by() gains a 'simplify' argument, passed to tapply().
o capabilities() gains a new argument "tiff" to report if tiff()
is operational.
o chol2inv() now treats <numeric(1)> as a [1 x 1]-matrix.
o cov() and cor() have the option 'use = "everything"' as default,
and so does var() with its default 'na.rm = FALSE'. This
returns NA instead of signalling an error for NA observations.
Another new option is 'use = "na.or.complete"' which is the default
for var(*, na.rm=FALSE).
var(double(0), na.rm= L) now returns NA instead of signalling an error,
for both L = TRUE or FALSE, as one consequence of these changes.
o data.matrix() now tries harder to convert non-numeric columns,
via as.numeric() or as(, "numeric").
o dev.interactive() is able to recognize the standard screen
devices if getOption("device") is a function (as well as by name).
o dev.new() gains a '...' argument which can be used to pass
named arguments which will be used if appropriate to the
device selected.
o dimnames(x) <- value extends 'value' if it a list and too
short, and 'x' is an array. This allows constructions such as
dimnames(x)[[1]] <- 1:3 to work whether or not 'x' already has
dimnames.
o format(), formatC() and prettyNum() gain a new argument
'drop0trailing' which can be used to suppress trailing "0"s.
o format() now works for environments; also print(env) and str(env)
share the same code for environments.
o It is now possible to create and open a text-mode gzfile()
connection by explicitly using e.g. open="rt".
o New help.request() function for compiling an e-mail to R-help
according to "the rules". It is built on the new utility,
create.post() on which also bug.report() is based now; both
thanks to a contribution by Heather Turner.
o help.search() now assumes that non-ASCII items are in latin1
if that makes sense (all known examples on CRAN are).
o HoltWinters() and decompose() use a (statistically) more
efficient computation for seasonal fits (they used to waste
one period).
o intToUtf8() and intToBits() now accept numeric vectors,
truncating them to integers.
o is.unsorted() gains an argument 'strictly'. It now works for
classed objects with a >= or > method (as incorrectly
documented earlier).
o library() no longer warns about the masking objects that are
identical(.,.) to those they mask.
o lockBinding(), unlockBinding(), lockEnvironment() and
makeActiveBinding() now all return invisibly (they always
return NULL).
o mood.test() now behaves better in the presence of ties.
o na.action() now works on fits of classes "lm", "glm", ....
o optim(.., method="SANN", .., trace=TRUE) is now customizable via
the 'REPORT' control argument, thanks to code proposals by
Thomas Petzoldt.
o The 'factory-fresh' defaults for options("device") have been
changed to refer to the devices as functions in the grDevices
namespace and not as names. This makes it more likely that
the incorrect (since R 2.5.0) assumption in packages that
get(getOption("device"))() will work will catch users of those
packages.
o pch=16 now has no border (for consistency with 15, 17, 18) and
hence is now different from pch=19.
o pdf() has new arguments 'useDingbats' (set this to FALSE for use
with broken viewers) and 'colormodel'. It now only references
the ZapfDingbats font if it is used (for small opaque circles).
The default PDF version is now 1.4, since viewers that do not
accept that are now rare.
Different viewers were rendering consecutive text() calls on a
pdf() device in different ways where translucency was
involved. The PDF generated has been changed to force each
call to be rendered separately (which is the way xpdf or
ghostscript was rendering, but Acrobat was forming a
transparency group), which is consistent with other graphics
devices supporting semi-transparency.
o plot.dendrogram() has new arguments (xlim, ylim) which allows
zooming into a hiearchical clustering dendrogram.
o plot.histogram() gains an 'ann' argument. (Wish from Ben Bolker.)
o plot(<lm_obj>) now warns when it omits points with leverage one
from a plot.
o Plotmath now recognizes 'aleph' and 'nabla' (the Adobe Symbol
'gradient' glyph) as symbol names.
o polyroot() no longer has a maximum degree.
o The alpha/alphamax argument of the 'nls' and 'mle' profile()
methods is used to compute confidence limits for univariate
t-statistics rather than a confidence region for all the
parameters (and not just those being profiled).
o quantile.default() allows 'probs' to stray just beyond [0, 1],
to allow for computed values.
o New functions rawConnection() and rawConnectionValue() allow
raw vectors to be treated as connections.
o read.dcf() now consistently gives an error for malformed DCF.
o read.fwf() no longer passes its default for 'as.is' to
read.table(): this allows the latter's default to be used.
o readBin(), writeBin(), readChar() and writeChar() now open a
connection which was not already open in an appropriate binary
mode rather than the default mode.
readLines(), cat() and sink() now open a connection which was
not already open in an appropriate text mode rather than the
default mode.
o readCitationFile() (and hence citation) now reads a package's
CITATION file in the package's declared encoding (if there is one).
o The behaviour of readLines() for incomplete final lines on
binary-mode connections has been changed to be like blocking
rather than non-blocking text-mode connections.
o A new reorder.character() method has been added. This allows
use of 'reorder(x, ...)' as a shorthand for
'reorder(factor(x), ...)' when 'x' is a character vector.
o round() now computes in long doubles where possible so the
results are more likely to be correct to representation error.
o rug() now uses axis()'s new arguments from 2.7.2, hence no
longer draws an axis line.
o save() (optionally, but by default) checks for the existence
of objects before opening the file/connections (wish of
PR#12543).
o segments(), arrows() and rect() allow zero-length
coordinates. (Wish of PR#11192)
o set.seed(kind=NULL) now takes 'kind' from a saved seed if the
workspace has been restored or .Random.seed has been set in
some other way. Previously it took the 'currently used' value,
which was "default" unless random numbers had been used in
the current session. Similarly for the values reported by
RNGkind(). (Related to PR#12567.)
set.seed() gains a 'normal.kind' argument.
o setEPS() and setPS() gain '...' to allow other arguments to be
passed to ps.options(), including overriding 'width' and 'height'.
o setTimeLimit() function to set limits on the CPU
and/or elapsed time for each top-level computation, and
setSessionLimit() to set limits for the rest of the session.
o splinefun() has a new method = "monoH.FC" for monotone Hermite
spline interpolation.
o sprintf() optionally supports the %a/%A notation of C99 (if the
platform does, including under Windows).
o str()'s default method gains a 'formatNum' function argument which
is used for formatting numeric vectors. Note that this is very
slightly not backward compatible, and that its default may change
before release.
o The summary() method for class "ecdf" now uses a print()
method rather than printing directly.
o summary.manova() uses a stabler computation of the test
statistics, and gains a 'tol' argument to allow highly
correlated responses to be explored (with probable loss of
accuracy). Similar changes have been made to anova.mlm() and
anova.mlmlist().
o Sweave() now writes concordance information inside a
\Sconcordance LaTeX macro, which allows it to be inserted into
PDF output.
o system.time() now uses lazy evaluation rather than
eval/substitute, which results in more natural scoping. (PR#11169)
o In table(), 'exclude=NULL' now does something also for factor
arguments. A new 'useNA' argument allows you to control
whether to add NA levels unconditionally or only when present
in data. A new convenience function addNA() gives similar
functionality by adding NA levels to individual factors.
o unlink() tries the literal pattern if it does not match with
wildcards interpreted -- this helps with e.g. unlink("a[b")
which previously needed to be unlink("a\\[b").
o update.packages() gains an argument 'oldPkgs', where
new.packages() and old.packages() get 'instPkgs'. These allow to
consider only subsets of packages instead of all installed ones.
o which(b) is somewhat faster now, notably for named vectors, thanks
to a suggestion by Henrik Bengtsson.
o New generic function xtfrm() as an auxiliary helper for
sort(), order() and rank(). This should return a numeric
vector that sorts in the same way as its input. The default
method supports any class with ==, > and is.na() methods but
specific methods can be much faster.
As a side-effect, rank() will now work better on classed
objects, although possibly rather slowly.
o X11() and capabilities("X11") now catch some X11 I/O errors that
previously terminated R. These were rare and have only be
seen with a misconfigured X11 setup on some versions of X11.
o The handling of nuls in character strings has been changed --
they are no longer allowed, and attempting to create such a
string now gives a truncation warning (unless
options("warnEscapes") is false).
o The user environment and profile files can now be specified via
environment variables 'R_ENVIRON_USER' and 'R_PROFILE_USER',
respectively.
o ?pkg::topic and ?pkg:::topic now find help on 'topic' from
package 'pkg' (and not help on :: or :::).
o ??topic now does help.search("topic"); variations such as
??pkg::topic or field??topic are also supported.
o There is support for using ICU (International Components for
Unicode) for collation, enabled by configure option --with-ICU
on a Unix-alike and by a setting in MkRules on Windows.
Function icuSetCollate() allows the collation rules (including
the locale) to be tuned. [Experimental]
o If S4 method dispatch is on and S4 objects are found as
attributes, show() rather than print() is used to print the
S4 attributes.
o Starting package tcltk without access to Tk (e.g. no available
display) is now a warning rather than an error, as Tcl
will still be usable. (On most platforms it was possible to
inhibit Tk by not having DISPLAY set, but not on Windows nor
Mac OS X builds with --with-aqua.)
o Using $ on a non-subsettable object (such as a function) is
now an error (rather than returning NULL).
o Hexadecimal numerical constants (such as 0xab.cdp+12) may now
contain a decimal point.
o PCRE has been updated to version 7.8 (mainly bug fixes).
o plot.ecdf() now defaults to pch=19 so as to better convey the
left-closed line segments.
NEW FEATURES IN PACKAGE 'methods'
o S3 classes that are registered by a call to setOldClass() now
have the S3 class as a special slot, and therefore so do
any S4 classes that contain them. This mechanism is used to
support S4 classes that extend S3 classes, to the extent
possible. See ?Classes, ?setOldClass, and ?S3Class.
The treatment of special pseudo-classes "matrix", "array", and
"ts" as S4 classes has also been modified to be more
consistent and, within limitations imposed by special
treatment of these objects in the base code, to allow other
classes to contain them. See class?ts.
A general feature added to implement "ts" and also
"data.frame" as S4 classes is that an S4 class definition can
be supplied to setOldClass() when the S3 class has known
attributes of known class.
setOldClass() now saves all the S3 inheritance, allowing the
calls to be built up in stages, rather than including all the
S3 classes in each call. Also allows as(x,"S3") to generate
valid S3 inheritance from the stored definition. See ?S3.
o S4 methods may now be defined corresponding to "...", by
creating a generic function that has "..." as its signature.
A method will be selected and called if all the arguments
matching "..." are from this class or a subclass. See ?dotsMethods.
o New functions S3Part() and S3Class() provide access to the
corresponding S3 object and class for S4 classes that extend
either an S3 class or a basic R object type.
o show(<class definition>) now also shows the class name.
INSTALLATION
o If sub-architectures are used, a copy of Rscript is installed
in ${R_HOME}/bin/exec${R_ARCH} (since that in ${R_HOME}/bin
and /usr/bin might be overwritten in a subsequent installation).
PACKAGE INSTALLATION
o LazyLoad: yes is now the default, so packages wanting to avoid
lazy loading must set 'LazyLoad: no' (or an equivalent value) in
the DESCRIPTION file.
o R CMD INSTALL will now fail if it finds a non-executable
'configure' script in the package -- this usually indicates a
file system with insufficient permissions. If a
non-executable 'cleanup' script is found and either
--clean or --preclean is used, a warning is given.
DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT
o Use in packages of the graphics headers Rdevices.h and
Rgraphics.h is defunct: they are no longer installed.
o options("par.ask.default") is defunct in favour of
"device.ask.default".
o The 'device-independent' family "symbol" is defunct: use
font=5 (base) or fontface=5 (grid) instead.
o gammaCody() is defunct.
o par("gamma") is defunct.
o 'methods' package functions getAccess(), getAllMethods(),
getClassName(), getClassPackage(), getExtends(),
getProperties(), getPrototype(), getSubclasses, getVirtual(),
mlistMetaName(), removeMethodsObject() and seemsS4Object() are
defunct.
o Use of a non-integer .Random.seed is now an error. (R itself
has never generated such values, but user code has, and
R >= 2.6.0 has given a warning.)
o methods::allGenerics() is deprecated.
o In package installation, SaveImage: yes is now ignored, and
any use of the field will give a warning.
o unserialize() no longer accepts character strings as input.
o The C macro 'allocString' has been removed -- use 'mkChar' and
variants.
o Use of allocVector(CHARSXP ...) is deprecated and gives a warning.
UTILITIES
o The default for 'stylepath' in Sweave's (default) RweaveLatex
driver is now FALSE rather than TRUE if
SWEAVE_STYLEPATH_DEFAULT is unset : see ?RweaveLatex.
To support this, tools::texi2dvi adds the R 'texmf' directory
to the input search path.
o R CMD Rd2dvi now previews PDF output (as was documented) if
R_PDFVIEWER is set (as it will normally be on a Unix-alike but
not on Windows, where the file association is used by default).
o R CMD check checks for binary executable files (which should not
appear in a source package), using a suitable 'file' if
available, else by name.
o R CMD check now also uses codetools' checks on the body of S4
methods.
C-LEVEL FACILITIES
o R_ReadConsole will now be called with a buffer size of 4096
bytes (rather than 1024): maintainers of alternative
front-ends should check that they do not have a smaller limit.
o Graphics structure NewDevDesc has been renamed to DevDesc.
For now there is a compatibility define in GraphicsDevice.h,
but it will be removed in R 2.9.0.
o PROTECT and UNPROTECT macros now work even with R_NO_REMAP.
BUG FIXES
o @ now gives an error (and not just a warning) if it is being
applied to a non-S4 object.
o R CMD appends (not prepends) R's texmf path to TEXINPUTS.
o Objects generated by new() from S4 classes should now all
satisfy isS4(object). Previously, prototypes not of object
type S4 would not be S4 objects. new() applied to basic,
non-S4 classes still will (and should) return non-S4 objects.
o Functions writing to connections such as writeLines(),
writeBin(), writeChar(), save(), dput() and dump() now check
more carefully that the connections are opened for writing,
including connections that they open themselves.
Similarly functions which read such as readLines(), scan(),
dcf() and parse() check connections for being open for reading.
o Equality comparison of factors with <NA> levels now works
correctly again.
o Repainting of open X11 View() windows is now done whilst an
X11 dataentry window is in use.
o Indexing of data frames with NA column names and a numeric or
logical column index works again even if columns with NA names
are selected.
o on.exit() has been fixed to use lexical scope in determining
where to evaluate the exit action when the on.exit expression
appears in a function argument.
o rank() now consistently returns a double result for
ties.method = "average" and an integer result otherwise.
Previously the storage mode depended on 'na.last' and if any
NAs were present.
o The "lm" methods of add1(), and drop1() now also work on a model
fit with na.action = na.exclude.
o median(c(x = NA_real_)) no longer has spurious names().
o isoreg(x, y) now returns the correct result also when x has ties,
in all cases.
o What na.action() does is now correctly documented.
o source() with echo=TRUE now behaves like ordinary automatic
printing, by using methods::show() for S4 objects.
o Several bugs fixed in `?` with topics: it previously died trying
to construct some error messages; for S4 methods, class "ANY"
should be used for omitted arguments and default methods.
o trace() should create missing traceable classes in the global
environment, not in baseenv() where other classes will not be
found.
o Class inheritance using explicit coerce= methods via setIs()
failed to coerce the argument in method dispatch. With this
fixed, a mechanism was needed to prohibit such inheritance
when it would break the generic function (e.g.,
initialize). See ?setIs and ?setGeneric.
o RSiteSearch() encodes its query (it seems this is occasionally
needed on some platforms, but encoding other fields is harmful).
o 'incomparables' in match() was looking up indices in the wrong
table.
o write.dcf() did not escape "." according to Debian policy
(PR#12816).
o col2rgb() sometimes opened a graphics device unnecessarily, and
col2rgb(NA) did not return a transparent color, as documented.
o pdf(family="Japan") [and other CIDfonts] no longer seg.faults
when writing "western" text strings.
o as.list() applied to an environment now forces promises and
returns values.
o Promises capturing calls to sys.parent() and friends did not
work properly when evaluated via method dispatch for internal
S3 generics.
o The default pkgType option for non-CRAN builds of R on Mac OS X
is now correctly "source" as documented.
o The default R_LIBS_USER path in AQUA builds now matches the
Mac-specifc path used by the Mac GUI: ~/Library/R/x.y/library
o splinefun() with natural splines incorrectly evaluated derivatives
to the left of the first knot. (PR#13132, fix thanks to
Berwin Turlach)
o anova(glm(..., y=FALSE)) now works. (PR#13098)
o cut.Date(x, "weeks") could fail if x has only one unique value
which fell on a week boundary. (PR#13159)
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c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K
(*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918
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From: pd@me@ @end|ng |rom cb@@dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:05:43 +0000
Subject: [Rd] R 4.3.3 scheduled for February 29
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Full schedule available on developer.r-project.org in a short while.
--
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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From Friedrich.Leisch at R-project.org Fri Aug 22 11:32:30 2008
From: Friedrich.Leisch at R-project.org (Friedrich.Leisch at R-project.org)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:32:30 +0200
Subject: Forthcoming R Conferences
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Dear useRs and developeRs,
I hope all attending useR! in Dortmund last week had as much a good
time as I had and a safe trip home. This email is to announce our
plans for forthcoming conferences. In 2009 there will be a useR! in
Rennes, France (July 8-10), directly followed by a DSC in Copenhagen,
Denmark (July 13-14).
We would like to have a useR! 2010 in North America, and 2011 in
Europe. Locations for 2010 and 2011 have not been fixed yet, but there
are already some plans. Proposals to host a conference are of course
more than welcome.
There have also been questions why 2009 is again in Europe. The main
reasons were:
a) we had a very good offer from Rennes, and (and at least almost one
year ago, when planning started) none from outside Europe
b) Having European useR!s in odd years will make it easier to set a
date: in even years there are the biannual Compstat conferences,
which together with all their satellite meetings block mid-August
to the beginning of September. In odd years on the other hand,
there is no regular big conference on computational statistics in
Europe.
So the basic plan is to be in Europe in odd years, and North America
in even years from now on. Either continent could of course be
replaced by one of the other 5 continents if we get a good
offer. Antarctica may be hard to get to, though ;-)
On behalf of the R Foundation,
Fritz Leisch
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From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Thu Oct 4 10:03:21 2001
From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch)
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:03:21 +0200
Subject: new version of e1071 on CRAN
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
A new version of e1071 has been released to CRAN which should be much
easier to install on a lot of platforms because reading/writing PNM
images has been moved to the pixmap package, hence there are no longer
dependencies on external libraries and no configure mechanism.
For the authors,
Fritz Leisch
**********************************************************
Changes in Version 1.2-0:
o Added functions for bagged clustering, see help(bclust).
o read.pnm() and write.pgm() have been removed from e1071, much
improved versions can now be found in the new package pixmap.
o Lots of documentation updates and bugfixes.
o Support Vector Machine interface now upgraded to libsvm V. 2.31
featuring:
- Multi-Class Classification
- weighting of classes for C-classification (for asymmetric sample sizes)
- nu-regression
- Formula Interface
- k-fold cross-validation
In addition, an introductory article is provided in directory
`docs/' (svmdoc.pdf).
o classAgreement now features an option to match factor levels
o updated API design for the fuzzy clustering functions
(cmeans, cshell, scaclust). Documentation updates and function
name changes (cmeanscl -> cmeans, validity.measures -> fclustIndex)
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From pd.mes at cbs.dk Fri Sep 30 10:50:49 2011
From: pd.mes at cbs.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:50:49 +0200
Subject: R 2.13.2 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
The byte pixies have rolled up R-2.13.2.tar.gz at 9:00 this morning. This is intended to be the final release of the 2.13 series, for the benefit of those apprehensive of putting 2.14.x into production use.
The run-in for 2.14.0 starts on Monday, with a planned release on Oct 31 (The Great Pumpkin Man Release).
You can get it from
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.13.2.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
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This is the relevant part of the NEWS file:
CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.13.2:
NEW FEATURES:
o mem.limits() now reports values larger than the maximum integer
(previously documented to be reported as NA), and allows larger
values to be set, including Inf to remove the limit.
o The print() methods for classes "Date", "POSIXct" and "POSIXlt"
respect the option "max.print" and so are much faster for very
long datetime vectors. (Suggestion of Yohan Chalabi.)
o untar2() now works around errors generated with tar files that
use more than the standard 6 digits for the checksum.
(https://bugs.R-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14654PR#14654)
o install.packages() with Ncpus > 1 guards against simultaneous
installation of indirect dependencies as well as direct ones.
o Sweave now knows about a few more Windows' encodings (including
cp1250 and cp1257) and some inputenx encodings such as koi8-r.
o postscript(colormodel = "rgb-nogray") no longer sets the sRGB
colorspace for each colour and so some viewers may render its
files much faster than the default colormodel ="rgb".
o The default for pdf(maxRasters=) has been increased from 64 to
1000.
o readBin() now warns if signed = FALSE is used inappropriately
(rather than being silently ignored).
It enforces the documented limit of 2^31-1 bytes in a single
call.
o PCRE has been updated to version 8.13, a bug-fix release with
updated Unicode tables (version 6.0.0). An additional patch (r611
from PCRE 8.20-to-be) has been added to fix a collation symbol
recognition issue.
INSTALLATION:
o It is possible to build in src/extra/xdr on more platforms.
(Needed since glibc 2.14 hides its RPC implementation.)
o configure will find the Sun TI-RPC implementation of xdr (in
libtirpc) provided its header files are in the search path: see
the 'R Installation and Administration Manual'.
PACKAGE INSTALLATION:
o Using a broad exportPattern directive in a NAMESPACE file is no
longer allowed to export internal objects such as .onLoad and
.__S3MethodsTable__. .
These are also excluded from imports, along with .First.lib.
BUG FIXES:
o fisher.test() had a buglet: If arguments were factors with unused
levels, levels were dropped and you would get an error saying
that there should be at least two levels, inconsistently with
pre-tabulated data. (Reported by Michael Fay).
o package.skeleton() will no longer dump S4 objects supplied
directly rather than in a code file. These cannot be restored
correctly from the dumped version.
o Build-time expressions in help files did not have access to
functions in the package being built (with R CMD build).
o Because quote() did not mark its result as being in use,
modification of the result could in some circumstances modify the
original call.
o Plotting pch = '.' now guarantees at least a one-pixel dot if cex
> 0.
o The very-rarely-used command-line option --max-vsize was
incorrectly interpreted as a number of Vcells and not in bytes as
documented. (Spotted by Christophe Rhodes.)
o The HTML generated by Rd2HTML() comes closer to being standards
compliant.
o filter(x, recursive = TRUE) gave incorrect results on a series
containing NAs. (Spotted by Bill Dunlap.)
o Profiling stats::mle() fits with a fixed parameter was not
supported.
(https://bugs.R-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14646PR#14646)
o retracemem() was still using positional matching.
(https://bugs.R-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14650PR#14650)
o The quantile method for "ecdf" objects now works and is
documented.
o xtabs(~ .., ..., sparse=TRUE) now also works together with an
exclude = .. specification.
o decompose() computed an incorrect seasonal component for time
series with odd frequencies.
o The pdf() device only includes the definition of the sRGB
colorspace in the output file for the "rgb" colormodel (and not
for "gray" nor "cmyk"): this saves ca 9KB in the output file.
o .hasSlot() wrongly gave FALSE in some cases.
o Sweave() with keep.source=TRUE could generate spurious NA lines
when a chunk reference appeared last in a code chunk.
o \Sexpr[results=rd] in an .Rd file now first tries
parse_Rd(fragment=FALSE) to allow Rd section-level macros to be
inserted.
o The print() method for class "summary.aov" did not pass on
arguments such as signif.stars when summary() was called on a
single object.
(https://bugs.R-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14684PR#14684)
o In rare cases ks.test() could return a p-value very slightly less
than 0 by rounding error.
(https://bugs.R-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14671PR#14671)
o If trunc() was called on a "POSIXlt" vector and the result was
subsetted, all but the first element was converted to NA.
(https://bugs.R-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14679PR#14679)
o cbind() and rbind() could cause memory corruption when used on a
combination of raw and logical/integer vectors.
--
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Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
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From zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at Mon Dec 16 14:10:06 2002
From: zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Achim Zeileis)
Date: Mon Dec 16 14:10:06 2002
Subject: new package "vcd" 0.1-3
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Dear R users,
there is a new package on CRAN called `vcd' for visualizing categorical
data. It basically implements a set of visualization techniques together
with a large collection of data sets and examples from the book
"Visualizing Categorical Data" by Michael Friendly. By now the features
of the package essentially cover chapters 2-4 from the book:
o fitting and graphing discrete distributions:
goodness-of-fit tests for poisson, binomial and negative binomial
distribution; rootograms; Ord plots; poissonness plots.
o 2-way contingency tables:
improved fourfold displays (compared to base); trilinear plots;
sieve diagrams, agreement charts.
o mosaic displays for n-way tables:
improved mosaicplots (compared to base); mosaic matrices.
We work on extensions enhancing several functions so this is very much
work-in-progress, but we wanted to provide a first version which already
offers a lot of functionality. Furthermore we intend to implement
further visualization tools for categorical data, in particular for
loglinear models.
The DESCRIPTION of the package is given below.
Best wishes,
Achim Zeileis
Package: vcd
Version: 0.1-3
Date: 2002-11-22
Title: Visualizing Categorical Data
Author: David Meyer, Achim Zeileis, Alexandros Karatzoglou, Kurt Hornik
Maintainer: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at R-project.org>
Description: Functions and data sets based on the book "Visualizing
Categorical Data" by Michael Friendly.
License: GPL
Depends: R(>= 1.4.0), MASS, ctest
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From: pd@me@ @end|ng |rom cb@@dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 08:25:36 +0000
Subject: R 4.0.1 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
The build system rolled up R-4.0.1.tar.gz (codename "See Things Now") 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-4/R-4.0.1.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.
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This is the relevant part of the NEWS file
CHANGES IN R 4.0.1:
NEW FEATURES:
* paste() and paste0() gain a new optional argument recycle0. When
set to true, zero-length arguments are recycled leading to
character(0) after the sep-concatenation, i.e., to the empty
string "" if collapse is a string and to the zero-length value
character(0) when collapse = NULL.
A package whose code uses this should depend on R (>= 4.0.1).
* The summary(<warnings>) method now maps the counts correctly to
the warning messages.
BUG FIXES:
* aov(frml, ...) now also works where the formula deparses to more
than 500 characters, thanks to a report and patch proposal by Jan
Hauffa.
* Fix a dozen places (code, examples) as Sys.setlocale() returns
the new rather than the previous setting.
* Fix for adding two complex grid units via sum(). Thanks to Gu
Zuguang for the report and Thomas Lin Pedersen for the patch.
* Fix parallel::mclapply(..., mc.preschedule=FALSE) to handle raw
vector results correctly. PR#17779
* Computing the base value, i.e., 2, "everywhere", now uses
FLT_RADIX, as the original machar code looped indefinitely on the
ppc64 architecture for the longdouble case.
* In R 4.0.0, sort.list(x) when is.object(x) was true, e.g., for x
<- I(letters), was accidentally using method = "radix".
Consequently, e.g., merge(<data.frame>) was much slower than
previously; reported in PR#17794.
* plot(y ~ x, ylab = quote(y[i])) now works, as e.g., for xlab;
related to PR#10525.
* parallel::detect.cores(all.tests = TRUE) tries a matching OS name
before the other tests (which were intended only for unknown
OSes).
* Parse data for raw strings is now recorded correctly. Reported by
Gabor Csardi.
--
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Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
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From pd.mes at cbs.dk Fri Nov 13 11:18:58 2015
From: pd.mes at cbs.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:18:58 +0100
Subject: [R] Release of R 3.2.3 scheduled for December 10
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
We intend to have a patch release on December 10, nickname will be "Wooden Christmas-Tree". The detailed schedule will be made available via developer.r-project.org as usual (later today).
For the R Core Team,
Peter D.
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From chong at stat.purdue.edu Fri Jul 6 16:55:52 2001
From: chong at stat.purdue.edu (Chong Gu)
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:55:52 -0500
Subject: gss 0.6-2
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
A new release of gss (0.6-2) is available at CRAN. Support is added
in gssanova for accelerated life models with right-censored,
left-truncated data. The added families are weibull, log normal, and
log logistic, extending the parametric models of survreg in the
survival package.
Chong Gu
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From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca Fri Nov 8 21:18:49 2002
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 15:18:49 -0500
Subject: Windows binary for R 1.6.1 FIXED
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To Windows R users:
The binary build of R that I uploaded on Tuesday contained errors in
the compiled HTML help files and some of the PDF versions of the
manuals. In particular, the index was missing from the CHM files, and
the table of contents was missing from at least one of the manuals.
I've since found the error in my setup, and have rebuilt the
distribution. I uploaded it to CRAN this afternoon; it will likely
propagate to all of the mirrors over the weekend.
Before you download it, please make sure that you see the note on the
download page about the correction (otherwise you may be downloading
the original version).
The URL is <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base>.
I'm sorry for any inconvenience that this has caused.
Duncan Murdoch
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From deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu Sun Jan 27 18:54:14 2002
From: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu (Jan de Leeuw)
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:54:14 -0800
Subject: Journal of Statistical Software
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
JSS, which is at http://www.jstatsoft.org, publishes statistical software
with manuals, as well as papers describing, comparing, and evaluating
statistical
software. Abstracts of all contributions accepted in JSS are published in
printed form in JCGS.
Although we publish software written in any language, we especially
welcome software written in R. The general idea is that packages written
in R can be documented in both "R News" and in JSS, but that generally
the
description in JSS will be more extensive and more seriously
peer-reviewed.
Everybody in the R community is encouraged to submit their R products
to JSS, we even welcome "code snippet" type of contributions (which will
go into a separate section of the journal).
Volume 7, 2002, consists so far of the following three issues
issue 1:
S. Weisberg
Dimension reduction regression in R.
issue 2:
A. Zeileis, F. Leisch, and K. Hornik
strucchange: an R package for testing for structural change
in linear regression models
issue 3:
G. Marsaglia and W.W. Tsang
Some difficult-to-pass tests of randomness.
===
Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics;
US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu
homepage: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw
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From bates at stat.wisc.edu Fri Nov 1 21:50:04 2002
From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates)
Date: 01 Nov 2002 14:50:04 -0600
Subject: R-1.6.1 available via rsync
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <Pine.SOL.4.20.0211011127180.26027-100000@santiam.dfci.harvard.edu>
<[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Jeff Gentry <jgentry at jimmy.harvard.edu> writes:
> Is there a rsync target for 1.6.1?
Thanks for the reminder, Jeff. Sources for R-1.6.1 are now available
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From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Thu Mar 26 14:59:46 1998
From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:59:46 +0100
Subject: A new port of R to MS Windows on CRAN
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Hi,
I've included Guido Masarotto's port of R 0.61.1 to MS Windows 95/NT
in $CRAN/bin/ms-windows-32 ... you can find both the sources and
binaries there.
I include Guido's README below.
Thanks again to Guido for making this port available!
Best,
Fritz Leisch
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rgnwbin.tgz and rgnwsrc.tgz are the first results of an attempt to
build R for Win95 and WinNT using egcs-mingw32.
The advantages over the binaries for MsWindows that can be found in CRAN
are:
1. R seems to run faster. Some simple (perhaps too simple)
benchmarks point to a 20% gain.
2. The port is based on a more recent version (0.61.1) and it is more
complete (more "system calls": system, tempfile, unlink,
WinExec - to launch applications without waiting for the result;
support for the standard help system: try help(), help(abline),
help(line,eda), ?women, data(), library())
3. A new menu item "Stop current computation" make possible
to interupt long computation (but only when something is printed).
4. Since egcs-mingw32 uses the standard C calling convention,
you don't need a Watcom compiler to build dynamic link libraries.
Indeed, this was my original motivation.
5. It should be easy to use some other gnu-win32 compilers (maybe
running on a non MsWindows machine). It should be easy to
adapt the port to lcc-win32, too.
But remember: this is experimental code so
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USE IT AT YOUR RISK
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BINARY DISTRIBUTION
Just unpack rgwnbin.tgz somewhere.
The executable is R.GNW\bin\R.exe. This binary distribution
includes only the standard packages (base+eda+mva+stepfun).
SOURCE DISTRIBUTION
This is an add-on to the R-0.61.1 distribution.
So unpack R-0.61.1.tar.gz somewhere.
Then, from the same directory, unpack rgwnsrc.tgz.
To rebuild the system, go to R-0.61.1/src/gnuwin32.
Then
> make
should build the standard stuff.
To add a new package, you should
a) download it;
b) unpack it in the R-0.61.1/src directory.
c) go to the R-0.61.1/src/gnuwin32 directory and type
> make pkg-xxx
where xxx is the name of the package.
You should get the directory R-0.61.1/library/xxx
and its subdirectory R/ (the r-code) data/ (the
data of the package) R/libs (the dynamic link library) and
the support for the help system (INDEX, TITLE, an updated
LibIndex). Of course, the data and libs subdirectory
can be missing.
d) if you want the documentation, you can download
the preformatted one.Then unpack it in the R-0.61.1
(not in the R-0.61.1/src) directory. If you don't need
the LaTeX files, remove them.
Note:
(1) Of course, you need a compiler. As I have said I used
the egcs-mingw32 one:
http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/
(2) You must also have a GNU make and some standard unix
command (ls,cat,sed,rm). Furthemore, make and this
command must be able to overcome the MsDOS limitation
about the length of a command.
I used the ones coming with the djgpp compiler.
According to me, they are the best version for dos and
windows. You can find it in any SIMTEL mirror.
If you want, I can make available a small file with
only the needed tools.
(3) The gnuwin32/Makefile use the g77 Fortran compiler.
If you don't have it, or if you don't want to use it,
you can use something like
> make HAVEG77=NO
or
> make HAVEG77=NO pkg-xxx
For example, the g77 compiler in egcs-mingw32 was
not able to compile the fortran code in the acepack package.
However, I was able to build this package with the command
> make HAVEG77=NO pkg-acepack
(4) When installing a package, if in R-0.61.1/src/library/xxx/R
exist a file with name yyy.gnw then this file is used
and files with name yyy or yyy.somethingelse are
ignored. In this way, you can configure the R code
of the package. An example is the base/R/system.gnw
file.
(5) This is not a developer's distribution. For example, dependences
are written in a silly way. Furthemore, all the code
in src/appl/, src/appl-f,..... is compiled.
No use of the original Makefile is done.
Hence, you have to start from a cleaned distribution.
BUGS and TODO
(0) The English of this README.
(1) If you exit from the edit windows and this is empty you get a
segmentation fault. This happens also on my Linux box. So,
it seem to be a general problem.
(2) The dll's are statically linked with the other R code.
So they get support for the routines that they need.
In this way, they work but are big. We should have
a large R.dll with all the standard code. Then
the executable and the dll's should simply import
from R.dll.
(3) Try and adapt this port to other win32 compiler.
It should be easy. So, why don't try?
(4) The system command does not work if the command to be
execute require some user interaction. It is just a
"simulated reading pipe for a broken OS".
(5) I inserted an event loop at the beginning of the
function which print to the console. In this way,
you can interupt the computation or, for example,
give the focus to the graphics window.
But only when you print. A call to the event loop
must be inserted inside the "main" code.
But, for the moment, I decided to leave the "main"
code untouched.
(6) When building package xxx, all the C and Fortran files
found in library/xxx/src (or library/xxx/src-c if
you don't have the g77 compiler) are compiled
and putted in a dll. On the contrary, we have to make
use of the original Makefile.
(7) The Windows code must be cleaned.
guido masarotto 22 marzo 1998
guido at sirio.stat.unipd.it
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From bjg at network-theory.co.uk Thu Apr 1 17:12:07 2004
From: bjg at network-theory.co.uk (Brian Gough)
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:12:07 +0100
Subject: The R Reference Manual - available as a printed book
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Hello,
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From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Fri Jan 16 12:19:38 1998
From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 12:19:38 +0100
Subject: Mail list archives now on CRAN
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I have started to mirror the R mailing list archives on CRAN, they are
from now on available in the directory $CRAN/docs/mail-archives.
Best,
Fritz
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From pd.mes at cbs.dk Thu Apr 22 11:01:10 2010
From: pd.mes at cbs.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:01:10 +0200
Subject: R 2.11.0 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I've rolled up R-2.11.0.tar.gz a short while ago. This is a development
release which contains a number of new features.
Also, a number of mostly minor bugs have been fixed. See the full list
of changes below.
NOTE: The build platform has been changed for this release. Please watch out extra carefully for anomalies.
You can get it from
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.11.0.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:
MD5 (AUTHORS) = ac9746b4845ae866661f51cfc99262f5
MD5 (COPYING) = eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a
MD5 (COPYING.LIB) = a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343
MD5 (FAQ) = 5b653442bedab476a4eff7468192fb5f
MD5 (INSTALL) = 70447ae7f2c35233d3065b004aa4f331
MD5 (NEWS) = 59017734fb8474f98f994c7a5a27f9fb
MD5 (ONEWS) = a8c985af5ad5e9c7e0a9f502d07baeb4
MD5 (OONEWS) = 4f004de59e24a52d0f500063b4603bcb
MD5 (R-latest.tar.gz) = c6c1e866299f533617750889c729bfb3
MD5 (README) = 433182754c05c2cf7a04ad0da474a1d0
MD5 (RESOURCES) = 020479f381d5f9038dcb18708997f5da
MD5 (THANKS) = f2ccf22f3e20ebaa86f8ee5cc6b0f655
MD5 (R-2/R-2.11.0.tar.gz) = c6c1e866299f533617750889c729bfb3
This is the relevant part of the NEWS file:
CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.11.0
SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
o Packages must have been installed under R >= 2.10.0, as the
current help system is the only one now supported.
o A port to 64-bit Windows is now available as well as binary
package repositiories: see the 'R Administration and
Installation Manual'.
o Argument matching for primitive functions is now done in the
same way as for interpreted functions except for the deliberate
exceptions
call switch .C .Fortran .Call .External
all of which use positional matching for their first argument,
and also some internal-use-only primitives.
o The default device for command-line R at the console on Mac OS X
is now quartz() and not X11().
NEW FEATURES
o The 'open' modes for connections are now interpreted more
consistently. open = "r" is now equivalent to open = "rt" for
all connections. The default open = "" now means "rt" for all
connections except the compressed file connections gzfile(),
bzfile() and xzfile() for which it means "rb".
o R CMD INSTALL now uses the internal untar() in package utils:
this ensures that all platforms can install bzip2- and
xz-compressed tarballs. In case this causes problems (as it
has on some Windows file systems when run from Cygwin tools)
it can be overridden by the environment variable
R_INSTALL_TAR: setting this to a modern external tar program
will speed up unpacking of large (tens of Mb or more)
tarballs.
o help(try.all.packages = TRUE) is much faster (although the
time taken by the OS to find all the packages the first time
it is used can dominate the time).
o R CMD check has a new option '--timings' to record
per-example timings in file <pkg>.Rcheck/<pkg>-Ex.timings.
o The TRE library has been updated to version 0.8.0 (minor bugfixes).
o grep[l], [g]sub and [g]regexpr now work in bytes in an 8-bit
locales if there is no marked UTF-8 input string: this will be
somewhat faster, and for [g]sub() give the result in the
native encoding rather than in UTF-8 (which returns to the
behaviour prior to R 2.10.0).
o A new argument 'skipCalls' has been added to browser() so that
it can report the original context when called by other
debugging functions.
o More validity checking of UTF-8 and MBCS strings is done by
agrep() and the regular-expression matching functions.
o The undocumented restriction on gregexpr() to length(text) > 0
has been removed.
o Package tcltk now sends strings to Tcl in UTF-8: this means
that strings with a marked UTF-8 encoding are supported in
non-UTF-8 locales.
o The graphics engine now supports rendering of raster (bitmap)
images, though not all graphics devices can provide (full)
support. Packages providing graphics devices (e.g., Cairo,
RSvgDevice, cairoDevice) will need to be reinstalled.
There is also support in the graphics engine for capturing
raster images from graphics devices (again not supported
on all graphics devices).
o R CMD check now also checks if the package and namespace can
be unloaded: this provides a check of the .Last.lib() and
.onUnload() hook functions (unless --install=fake).
o prop.table(x) now accepts a one-dimensional table for x.
o A new function vapply() has been added, based on a suggestion
from Bill Dunlap. It requires that a template for the
function value be specified, and uses it to determine the
output type and to check for consistency in the function
values.
o The main HTML help page now links to a reformatted copy of
this NEWS file. (Suggested by Henrik Bengtsson.) Package
index files link to the package DESCRIPTION and NEWS files and
a list of demos when using dynamic help.
o The [ method for class "AsIs" allows the next method to change
the underlying class. (Wish of Jens Oehlschl?gel.)
o write.csv[2] no longer allow 'append' to be changed: as ever,
direct calls to write.table() give more flexibility as well as
more room for error.
o The index page for HTML help for a package now collapses
multiple signatures for S4 methods into a single entry.
o The use of '.required' by require() and detach() has been
replaced by '.Depends' which is set from the 'Depends' field
of a package (even in packages with name spaces). By default
detach() prevents such dependencies from being detached: this
can be overridden by the argument 'force'.
o bquote() has been extended to work on function definitions
(wish of PR#14031).
o detach() when applied to an object other than a package
returns the environment that has been detached, to parallel
attach().
o readline() in non-interactive use returns "" and does not
attempt to read from the 'terminal'.
o New function file_ext() in package 'tools'.
o xtfrm() is now primitive and internally generic, as this allows
S4 methods to be set on it without name-space scoping issues.
There are now "AsIs" and "difftime" methods, and the default
method uses unclass(x) if is.numeric(x) is true (which will be
faster but relies on is.numeric() having been set correctly
for the class).
o is.numeric(x) is now false for a "difftime" object
(multiplication and division make no sense for such objects).
o The default method of weighted.mean(x, w) coerces 'w' to be
numeric (aka double); previously only integer weights were
coerced. Zero weights are handled specially so an infinite
value with zero weight does not force an NaN result.
There is now a "difftime" method.
o bug.report() now has 'package' and 'lib.loc' arguments to
generate bug reports about packages. When this is used, it
looks for a BugReports field in the package DESCRIPTION file,
which will be assumed to be a URL at which to submit the
report, and otherwise generates an email to the package
maintainer. (Suggested by Barry Rowlingson.)
o quantile() now has a method for the date-time class "POSIXt",
and types 1 and 3 (which never interpolate) work for Dates and
ordered factors.
o length(<POSIXlt>) now returns the length of the corresponding
abstract timedate-vector rather than always 9 (the length of the
underlying list structure). (Wish of PR#14073 and PR#10507.)
o The readline completion backend no longer sorts possible
completions alphabetically (e.g., function argument names) if
R was built with readline >= 6.
o select.list() gains a 'graphics' argument to allow Windows/Mac
users to choose the text interface. This changes the
behaviour of new.packages(ask=TRUE) to be like
update.packages(ask=TRUE) on those platforms in using a text
menu: use ask="graphics" for a graphical menu.
o New function chooseBioCmirror() to set the "BioC_mirror" option.
o The R grammar prevents using the argument 'name' in signatures
of S4 methods for '$' and '$<-', since they will always be
called with a character string value for 'name'. The implicit
S4 generic functions have been changed to reflect this:
packages which included 'name' in the signature of their
methods need to be updated and re-installed.
o The handling of the 'method' argument of glm() has been
refined following suggestions by Ioannis Kosmidis and Heather
Turner.
o str() gains a new argument 'list.len' with default 99, limiting the
number of list() items (per level), thanks to suggestions from
David Winsenius.
o Having formal arguments of an S4 method in a different order
from the generic is now an error (the warning having been
ignored by some package maintainers for a long time).
o New functions enc2native() and enc2utf8() convert character
vectors with possibly marked encodings to the current locale and
UTF-8 respectively.
o Unrecognized escapes and embedded nuls in character strings are
now an error, not just a warning. Thus option "warnEscapes"
is no longer needed. rawToChar() now removes trailing nuls
silently, but other embedded nuls become errors.
o Informational messages about masked objects displayed when a
package is attached are now more compact, using strwrap()
instead of one object per line.
o print.rle() gains argument 'prefix'.
o download.file() gains a "curl" method, mainly for use on
platforms which have 'curl' but not 'wget', but also for some
hard-to-access URLs.
o In Rd, \eqn and \deqn will render in HTML (and convert to text)
upper- and lower-case Greek letters (entered as \alpha ...),
\ldots, \dots, \ge and \le.
o utf8ToInt() and intToUtf8() now map NA inputs to NA outputs.
o file() has a new argument 'raw' which may help if it is used
with something other than a regular file, e.g. a character device.
o New function strtoi(), a wrapper for the C function strtol.
o as.octmode() and as.hexmode() now allow inputs of length other
than one.
The format() and print() methods for "octmode" now preserve
names and dimensions (as those for "hexmode" did).
The format() methods for classes "octmode" and "hexmode" gain
a 'width' argument.
o seq.int() returns an integer result in some further cases
where seq() does, e.g. seq.int(1L, 9L, by = 2L).
o Added \subsection{}{} macro to Rd syntax, for subsections
within sections.
o n-dimensional arrays with dimension names can now be indexed
by an n-column character matrix. The indices are matched
against the dimension names. NA indices are propagated to the
result. Unmatched values and "" are not allowed and result in
an error.
o interaction(drop=TRUE) uses less memory (related to PR#14121).
o summary() methods have been added to the "srcref" and
"srcfile" classes, and various encoding issues have been
cleaned up.
o If option "checkPackageLicense" is set to TRUE (not currently
the default), users will be asked to agree to
non-known-to-be-FOSS package licences at first use.
o Checking setAs(a,b) methods only gives a message instead of a
warning, when one of a or b is unknown.
o New function norm() to compute a matrix norm.
norm() and also backsolve() and sample() have implicit S4 generics.
o Renviron.site and Rprofile.site can have architecture-specific
versions on systems with sub-architectures.
o R CMD check now (by default) also checks Rd files for
auto-generated content in need of editing, and missing argument
descriptions.
o aggregate() gains a formula method thanks to a contribution by
Arni Magnusson. The data frame method now allows summary
functions to return arbitrarily many values.
o path.expand() now propagates NA values rather than converting them
to "NA".
o file.show() now disallows NA values for file names, headers, and
pager.
o The 'fuzz' used by seq() and seq.int() has been reduced from
1e-7 to 1e-10, which should be ample for the double-precision
calculations used in R. It ensures that the fuzz never comes
into play with sequences of integers (wish of PR#14169).
o The default value of RSiteSearch(restrict=) has been changed
to include vignettes but to exclude R-help. The R-help
archives available have been split, with a new option of
"Rhelp10" for those from 2010.
o New function rasterImage() in the 'graphics' package for drawing
raster images.
o stats:::extractAIC.coxph() now omits aliased terms when computing
the degrees of freedom (suggestion of Terry Therneau).
o cor() and cov() now test for misuse with non-numeric
arguments, such as the non-bug report PR#14207.
o pchisq(ncp =, log.p = TRUE) is more accurate for probabilities
near one. E.g. pchisq(80, 4, ncp=1, log.p=TRUE). (Maybe what
was meant in PR#14126.)
o maintainer() has been added, to give convenient access to the
name of the maintainer of a package (contributed by David
Scott).
o sample() and sample.int() allow zero items to be sampled from
a zero-length input. sample.int() gains a default value
'size=n' to be more similar to sample().
o switch() returned NULL on error (not previously documented on
the help page): it now does so invisibly, analogously to
if-without-else.
It is now primitive: this means that EXPR is always matched to
the first argument and there is no danger of partial matching
to later named arguments.
o Primitive functions UseMethod(), attr(), attr<-(), on.exit(),
retracemem() and substitute() now use standard argument
matching (rather than positional matching). This means that
all multi-argument primitives which are not internal now use
standard argument matching except where positional matching is
desirable (as for switch(), call(), .C() ...).
o All the one-argument primitives now check that any name
supplied for their first argument is a partial match to the
argument name as documented on the help page: this also
applies to replacement functions of two arguments.
o base::which() uses a new .Internal function when arr.ind is
FALSE resulting in a 10x speedup. Thanks to Patrick Aboyoun
for implementation suggestions.
o Help conversion to text now uses the first part of \enc{}{}
markup if it is representable in the current output encoding.
On the other hand, conversion to LaTeX with the default
outputEncoding = "ASCII" uses the second part.
o A new class "listOfMethods" has been introduced to represent
the methods in a methods table, to replace the deprecated
class "MethodsList".
o any() and all() return early if possible. This may speed up
operations on long vectors.
o strptime() now accepts "%z" (for the offset from UTC in the
RFC822 format of +/-hhmm).
o The PCRE library has been updated to version 8.02, a bug-fix
release which also updates tables to Unicode 5.02.
o Functions which may use a graphical select.list() (including
menu() and install.packages()) now check on a Unix-alike that
Tk can be started (and not just
capabilities("tcltk") && capabilities("X11")).
o The parser no longer marks strings containing octal or hex
escapes as being in UTF-8 when entered in a UTF-8 locale.
o On platforms with cairo but not Pango (notably Mac OS X) the
initial default X11() type is set to "Xlib": this avoids
several problems with font selection when done by cairo rather
than Pango (at least on Mac OS X).
o New arrayInd() such that which(x, arr.ind = TRUE) for an array
'x' is now equivalent to arrayInd(which(x), dim(x), dimnames(x)).
DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT
o Bundles of packages are defunct.
o stats::clearNames() is defunct: use unname().
o Basic regular expressions are defunct, and strsplit(), grep(),
grepl(), sub(), gsub(), regexpr() and gregexpr() no longer
have an 'extended' argument.
o methods::trySilent() is defunct.
o index.search() (which was deprecated in 2.10.0) is no longer
exported and has a different argument list.
o Use of multiple arguments to return() is now defunct.
o The use of UseMethod() with more than two arguments is now defunct.
o In the 'methods' package, the MethodsList metadata objects which
had been superseded by hash tables (environments) since R
2.8.0 are being phased out. Objects of this class are no
longer assigned or used as metadata by the package.
getMethods() is now deprecated, with its internal use replaced
by findMethods() and other changes. Creating objects from the
MethodsList class is also deprecated.
o Parsing strings containing both octal/hex and Unicode escapes
now gives a warning and will become an error in R 2.12.0.
INSTALLATION
o UTF-8 is now used for the reference manual and package
manuals. This requires LaTeX '2005/12/01' or later.
o configure looks for a POSIX compliant tr, Solaris's
/usr/ucb/tr having been found to cause Rdiff to malfunction.
o configure is now generated with autoconf-2.65, which works
better on recent systems and on Mac OS X.
PACKAGE INSTALLATION
o Characters in R source which are not translatable to the
current locale are now handled more tolerantly: these will be
converted to hex codes with a warning. Such characters are
only really portable if they appear in comments.
o R CMD INSTALL now tests that the installed package can be loaded
(and backs out the installation if it cannot): this can be
suppressed by --no-test-load. This avoids installing/updating
a package that cannot be used: common causes of failures to
load are missing/incompatible external software and
missing/broken dependent packages.
o Package installation on Windows for a package with a src
directory now checks if a DLL is created unless there is a
src/Makefile.win file: this helps catch broken installations
where the toolchain has not reported problems in building the DLL.
(Note: this can be any DLL, not just one named <pkg-name>.dll.)
BUG FIXES
o Using with(), eval() etc with a list with some unnamed
elements now works. (PR#14035)
o The "quick" dispatch of S4 methods for primitive functions was
not happening, forcing a search each time. (Dispatch for
closures was not affected.) A side effect is that default
values for arguments in a method that do not have defaults in
the generic will now be ignored.
o Trying to dispatch S4 methods for primitives during the search
for inherited methods slows that search down and potentially
could cause an infinite recursion. An internal switch was
added to turn off all such methods from
findInheritedMethods().
o R framework installation (on Mac OS X) would not work properly
if a rogue Resources directory was present at the top level.
Such a non-symlink will now be renamed to Resources.old (and
anything previously named Resources.old removed) as part of
the framework installation process.
o The checks for conforming S4 method arguments could fail when
the signature of the generic function omitted some of the
formal arguments (in addition to ...). Arguments omitted from
the method definition but conforming (per the documentation)
should now be ignored (treated as "ANY") in dispatching.
o The computations for S4 method evaluation when '...' was in the
signature could fail, treating '...' as an ordinary symbol.
This has been fixed, for the known cases.
o Various ar() fitting methods have more protection for singular
fits.
o callNextMethod now works again with the drop= argument in `[`
o parse() and parse_Rd() miscounted columns when multibyte UTF-8
characters were present.
o Formatting of help pages has had minor improvements: extra
blank lines have been removed from the text format, and empty
package labels removed from HTML.
o cor(A, B) where A has n x 1 and B a 1-dimensional array
segfaulted or gave an internal error.
(The case cor(B, A) was PR#7116.)
o cut.POSIXt() applied to a start value after the DST transition
on a DST-change day could give the wrong time for 'breaks' in units
of days or longer. (PR#14208)
o do_par() UNPROTECTed too early (PR#14214)
o subassignment x[[....]] <- y didn't check for a zero-length
right hand side, and inserted rubbish value. (PR#14217)
o fisher.test() no longer gives a P-value *very* slightly > 1,
in some borderline cases.
o Internal function matchArgs no longer modifies the general
purpose bits of the SEXPs that make up the formals list of R
functions. This fixes an invalid error message that would
occur when a garbage collection triggered a second call to
matchArgs for the same function via a finalizer.
o gsub() in 2.10.x could fail from stack overflow for extremely
long strings due to temporary data being allocated on the
stack. Also, gsub() with fixed=TRUE is in some circumstances
considerably faster.
o Several primitives, including attributes(), attr<-()
interactive(), nargs() and proc.time(), did not check that
they were called with the correct number of arguments.
o A potential race condition in list.files() when other processes
are operating on the directory has been fixed; the code now
dynamically allocates memory for file listings in a single
pass instead of making an initial count pass.
o mean(x, trim=, na.rm = FALSE) failed to return NA if 'x'
contained missing values. (Reported by Bill Dunlap.)
o Extreme tail behavior of, pbeta() {and hence pf()}, e.g.,
pbeta(x, 3, 2200, lower.tail=FALSE, log.p=TRUE) now returns
finite values instead of jumping to -Inf too early (PR#14230).
o parse(text=x) misbehaved for objects 'x' that were not coerced
internally to character, notably symbols. (Reported to
R-devel by Bill Dunlap.)
o The internal C function 'coerceSymbol' now handles coercion to
character, and warns if coercion fails (rather than silently
returning NULL). This allows a name to be given where a
character vector is required in functions which coerce
internally.
o The interpretation by strptime() of %c was non-standard (not
that it is ever advisable to use locale- and system-specific
input formats).
o capabilities("X11") now works the same way on Mac OS X as on
other platforms (and as documented: it was always true for R
built with --with-aqua, as the CRAN builds are).
o The X11() device with cairo but not Pango (notably Mac OS X)
now checks validity of text strings in UTF-8 locales (since
Pango does but cairo it seems does not).
o read.fwf() misread multi-line records when n was specified.
(PR#14241)
o all.equal(*, tolerance = e) passes the numeric tolerance also to
the comparison of the attributes.
o pgamma(0,0), a boundary case, now returns 0, its limit from the
left, rather than the limit from the right.
o Issuing POST requests to the internal web server could stall
the request under certain circumstances.
o gzcon( <textConnection> ), an error, no longer damages the
connection (in a way to have it seg.fault). (PR#14237)
o All the results from hist() now use the nominal 'breaks' not
those adjusted by the numeric 'fuzz": in recent versions the
nominal 'breaks' were reported but the 'density' referred to
the intervals used in the calculation -- which mattered very
slightly for one of the extreme bins. (Based on a report by
Martin Becker.)
o If xy[z].coords (used internally by many graphics functions) are
given a list as 'x', they now check that the list has suitable
names and give a more informative error message. (PR#13936)
--
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Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
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From pd.mes at cbs.dk Fri Jul 17 18:23:56 2015
From: pd.mes at cbs.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:23:56 +0200
Subject: Release of R 3.2.2 scheduled for August 14
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
We intend to have a patch release on August 14, nickname will be "Fire Safety". The detailed schedule will be made available via developer.r-project.org as usual.
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From pd.mes at cbs.dk Thu Aug 31 14:46:18 2017
From: pd.mes at cbs.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:46:18 +0000
Subject: R 3.4.2 scheduled for September 28
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Full schedule available on developer.r-project.org (pending auto-update from SVN)
--
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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From bates at stat.wisc.edu Tue Apr 30 16:10:25 2002
From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:10:25 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: R-1.5.0 sources available via rsync
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Sources for R-1.5.0 are now available via rsync from rsync.r-project.org
$ rsync rsync.r-project.org::
r-release R-1.5.0 sources (current released version - approx 25 MB)
r-patched R sources (patched released version - approx 25 MB)
r-devel R sources (devel version, less stable - approx 25 MB)
r-ng R source (next generation - unstable - approx 25 MB)
r-manuals Development sources for manuals for R
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From Detlef.Steuer at unibw-hamburg.de Tue Jun 18 17:03:45 2002
From: Detlef.Steuer at unibw-hamburg.de (Detlef Steuer)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:03:45 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: SuSE rpms 7.3 and 8.0
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Hello!
Good news for the SuSE fans out there.
I?ve just completed the upload of rpms for SuSE 7.3 and 8.0
to the master site. You?ll probably find them on CRAN tomorrow morning.
The archiv has rpms for R-1.5.1 and roughly 130 contrib packages.
If you are missing a package, consult the build logs before asking, please.
Some of the missings failed "make check", others were missing some libraries on
my system.
When time permitts I?ll try to complete the collection.
Thanks again to Albrecht Gebhardt, who formerly maintained the packages!
Happy downloading!
detlef
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From mikalzet at libero.it Tue Jun 18 09:33:45 2002
From: mikalzet at libero.it (mikalzet at libero.it)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:33:45 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Mandrake R 1.5.1 RPM's
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
R 1.5.1 binary packages for Mandrake 8.2 and source packages for
Mandrake have been uploaded to CRAN.
People wishing to contribute RPM's for Mandrake 8.1 or 8.0 are welcome to
do so and will find complete instructions in the Mandrake-readme file.
The 8.2 binary package adopts mozilla as default browser as this
distribution no longer ships netscape; however, as Netscape 4.7 series is
the only browser with which the help.start() search applet works on
Mandrake I suggest people might like to download and install the 8.1
netscape rpm on 8.2 systems as I have.
The SRPM will still build a package with netscape as default browser.
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From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca Fri Oct 4 02:14:12 2002
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 20:14:12 -0400
Subject: Windows binary for R 1.6.0 on CRAN
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I've just uploaded a Windows binary of R 1.6.0 to CRAN. It should be
visible at <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/> within a few
hours.
See the CHANGES file for what's new in this version, Most importantly
for downloaders is that the main file to download is now called
rw1060.exe. (This file was called SetupR.exe in previous releases.)
The series of rw*.zip files is no longer being distributed. The
mini-R files are as before, though the number of them has grown by
one.
Duncan Murdoch
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From erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at Thu Apr 24 00:38:36 2003
From: erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at (Erich Neuwirth)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 00:38:36 +0200
Subject: R (D)COM server 1.2 and RExcel 1.0 available
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
We have uploaded a major upgrade of our packages
R (D)COM Server V1.2
and
RExcel 1.0
The combined package is available in the
Software->Other
section of CRAN
From the documentation:
This package contains a COM server used to connect a client application
(e.g. Microsoft Excel) with R.
An Add-In for Microsoft Excel is provided as well as Active X controls
to be included in your applications.
Thomas Baier
Erich Neuwirth
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From pd.mes at cbs.dk Thu Dec 10 13:07:57 2015
From: pd.mes at cbs.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:07:57 +0100
Subject: R 3.2.3 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
The build system rolled up R-3.2.3.tar.gz (codename "Wooden Christmas-Tree") 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-3.2.3.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:
MD5 (AUTHORS) = eb97a5cd38acb1cfc6408988bffef765
MD5 (COPYING) = eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a
MD5 (COPYING.LIB) = a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343
MD5 (FAQ) = 3a15bad19f5031d05d1a4893f0fadb81
MD5 (INSTALL) = 3964b9119adeaab9ceb633773fc94aac
MD5 (NEWS) = e09aa00e906c9feb3f63838e4b4919c9
MD5 (NEWS.0) = bfcd7c147251b5474d96848c6f57e5a8
MD5 (NEWS.1) = eb78c4d053ec9c32b815cf0c2ebea801
MD5 (NEWS.2) = 8e2f4d1d5228663ae598a09bf1e2bc6b
MD5 (R-latest.tar.gz) = 1ba3dac113efab69e706902810cc2970
MD5 (README) = aece1dfbd18c1760128c3787f5456af6
MD5 (RESOURCES) = 529223fd3ffef95731d0a87353108435
MD5 (THANKS) = ba00f6cc68a823e1741cfa6011f40ccb
MD5 (VERSION-INFO.dcf) = a042818b70e88f7c5253ee533f45cd2f
MD5 (R-3/R-3.2.3.tar.gz) = 1ba3dac113efab69e706902810cc2970
This is the relevant part of the NEWS file
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:
* The included configuration code for libintl has been updated to
that from gettext version 0.19.5.1 - this should only affect how
an external library is detected (and the only known instance is
under OpenBSD). (Wish of PR#16464.)
* configure has a new argument --disable-java to disable the checks
for Java.
* The configure default for MAIN_LDFLAGS has been changed for the
FreeBSD, NetBSD and Hurd OSes to one more likely to work with
compilers other than gcc (FreeBSD 10 defaults to clang).
* configure now supports the OpenMP flags -fopenmp=libomp (clang)
and -qopenmp (Intel C).
* Various macros can be set to override the default behaviour of
configure when detecting OpenMP: see file config.site.
* Source installation on Windows has been modified to allow for
MiKTeX installations without texi2dvi.exe. See file
MkRules.dist.
BUG FIXES:
* regexpr(pat, x, perl = TRUE) with Python-style named capture did
not work correctly when x contained NA strings. (PR#16484)
* The description of dataset ToothGrowth has been
improved/corrected. (PR#15953)
* model.tables(type = "means") and hence TukeyHSD() now support
"aov" fits without an intercept term. (PR#16437)
* close() now reports the status of a pipe() connection opened with
an explicit open argument. (PR#16481)
* Coercing a list without names to a data frame is faster if the
elements are very long. (PR#16467)
* (Unix-only) Under some rare circumstances piping the output from
Rscript or R -f could result in attempting to close the input
file twice, possibly crashing the process. (PR#16500)
* (Windows) Sys.info() was out of step with win.version() and did
not report Windows 8.
* topenv(baseenv()) returns baseenv() again as in R 3.1.0 and
earlier. This also fixes compilerJIT(3) when used in .Rprofile.
* detach()ing the methods package keeps .isMethodsDispatchOn()
true, as long as the methods namespace is not unloaded.
* Removed some spurious warnings from configure about the
preprocessor not finding header files. (PR#15989)
* rchisq(*, df=0, ncp=0) now returns 0 instead of NaN, and
dchisq(*, df=0, ncp=*) also no longer returns NaN in limit cases
(where the limit is unique). (PR#16521)
* pchisq(*, df=0, ncp > 0, log.p=TRUE) no longer underflows (for
ncp > ~60).
* nchar(x, "w") returned -1 for characters it did not know about
(e.g. zero-width spaces): it now assumes 1. It now knows about
most zero-width characters and a few more double-width
characters.
* Help for which.min() is now more precise about behavior with
logical arguments. (PR#16532)
* The print width of character strings marked as "latin1" or
"bytes" was in some cases computed incorrectly.
* abbreviate() did not give names to the return value if minlength
was zero, unlike when it was positive.
* (Windows only) dir.create() did not always warn when it failed to
create a directory. (PR#16537)
* When operating in a non-UTF-8 multibyte locale (e.g. an East
Asian locale on Windows), grep() and related functions did not
handle UTF-8 strings properly. (PR#16264)
* read.dcf() sometimes misread lines longer than 8191 characters.
(Reported by Herv'e Pag`es with a patch.)
* within(df, ..) no longer drops columns whose name start with a
".".
* The built-in HTTP server converted entire Content-Type to
lowercase including parameters which can cause issues for
multi-part form boundaries (PR#16541).
* Modifying slots of S4 objects could fail when the methods package
was not attached. (PR#16545)
* splineDesign(*, outer.ok=TRUE) (splines) is better now
(PR#16549), and interpSpline() now allows sparse=TRUE for speedup
with non-small sizes.
* If the expression in the traceback was too long, traceback() did
not report the source line number. (Patch by Kirill M"uller.)
* The browser did not truncate the display of the function when
exiting with options("deparse.max.lines") set. (PR#16581)
* When bs(*, Boundary.knots=) had boundary knots inside the data
range, extrapolation was somewhat off. (Patch by Trevor Hastie.)
* var() and hence sd() warn about factor arguments which are
deprecated now. (PR#16564)
* loess(*, weights = *) stored wrong weights and hence gave
slightly wrong predictions for newdata. (PR#16587)
* aperm(a, *) now preserves names(dim(a)).
* poly(x, ..) now works when either raw=TRUE or coef is specified.
(PR#16597)
* data(package=*) is more careful in determining the path.
* prettyNum(*, decimal.mark, big.mark): fixed bug introduced when
fixing PR#16411.
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From P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Wed Sep 17 19:30:36 2008
From: P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:30:36 +0200
Subject: R 2.8.0 is scheduled for October 20
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.8.0 on Monday,
October 20, 2008.
Release procedures start Friday, September 19. The detailed schedule can
be found on http://developer.r-project.org
The source tarballs will be made available daily (barring build
troubles) and the tarballs can be picked up at
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/
a little later.
Binary builds are expected to appear starting Monday, September 22.
For the Core Team
Peter Dalgaard
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From andy_liaw at merck.com Fri Sep 27 02:07:46 2002
From: andy_liaw at merck.com (Liaw, Andy)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:07:46 -0400
Subject: new patched version of randomForest
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
There's now a new version of randomForest (3.3-4) on CRAN. Changes from the
last version include:
o "Unsupervised learning" now works again.
o Fixed a bug in the original Fortran: the mtry variables chosen
to split each node are now sampled without replacement.
o Variable importance for regression now works correctly (i.e.,
reproducible when random seed is set). The problem was simply
un-initialized array. The problem is also in the original
Fortran code, so users of that beware!
o A new option keep.forest (default TRUE), which, when set to FALSE,
supresses the `forest' component of the returned object. This
can reduce memory usage and execution time significantly, if
prediction of test set is not needed.
o The default value of mtry is now set to sqrt(p) for classification
and p/3 for regression (where p is the number of predictors),
consistent with Prof. Breiman's suggestion.
Questions/comments/bug-reports/patches welcomed!
Regards,
Andy
Andy I. Liaw, PhD
Biometrics Research Phone: (732) 594-0820
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From tlumley at u.washington.edu Wed Jan 30 18:14:40 2002
From: tlumley at u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:14:40 -0800 (PST)
Subject: foreign 0.4-9 in R1.4.1-recommended
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One further note about R1.4.1 changes
There have been a number of requests for support for SPSS value labels in
read.spss. The version in the `foreign' package in R 1.4.1-recommended now
turns variables with value labels into R factors (by default). We still
don't support labels on just a few values of a continuous variable.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
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From Adrian.Trapletti at wu-wien.ac.at Thu Jul 8 18:20:44 1999
From: Adrian.Trapletti at wu-wien.ac.at (Adrian Trapletti)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 16:20:44 +0000
Subject: new time series package available
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Fritz just put the first version of a new time series package to the
contrib section at CRAN.
The package is called "tseries.tgz" and provides a library for time
series analysis. It contains
acf Autocorrelation Function
adf.test Augmented Dickey-Fuller Test
amif Auto Mutual Information Function
bds.test BDS Test
box.test Box-Pierce and Box-Ljung Test
ccf Crosscorrelation Function
cross spectra Cross Spectra Estimation (cross spectrum,
cospectrum, quadrature spectrum, amplitude
spectrum,
phase spectrum, and absolute coherency
estimation)
cumulative.periodogram Cumulative Periodogram
embed Embedding a Time Series
finance Daily Closing Prices of Major European Stock
Indices, 1991-1998.
intgrt Discrete Integrals
is.univariate.ts Test for Univariate Time Series
kernel Smoothing Kernel Objects
pacf Partial Autocorrelation Function
portfolio.optim Portfolio Optimization
pp.test Phillips-Perron Unit Root Test
print.bdstest Print BDS Test
quadmap Quadratic Map (Logistic Equation)
read.matrix Read Matrix Data
read.ts Read Time Series Data
runs.test Runs Test
sales Sales Data with Leading Indicator.
spectrum Spectrum Estimation
sunspot Yearly Sunspot Data, 1700-1988. Monthly
Sunspot Data, 1749-1997.
surrogate Generate Surrogate Data
toeplitz Form Symmetric Toeplitz Matrix
treering Yearly Treering Data, -6000-1979.
tsparam Time Series Paramater Object
and should be more or less well documented. The library is a port of a
part of my
octave time series library, and, at the moment it does not contain
routines for
estimating particular time series models. However, I plan to port my VAR
routines (Johansen
MLE methodology) and to implement MLE of ARMA models within the next few
months. Finally,
thanks to Ross: I used some of his ideas to implement the "tsparam" and
the "kernel" classes.
Testing, suggestions, and comments are welcome!
Adrian
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From P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Mon Jun 15 16:38:14 2009
From: P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:38:14 +0200
Subject: R 2.9.1 Scheduled for June 26, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.9.1 on Friday,
June 26, 2009.
Release procedures start Tuesday, June 16.
Those directly involved should review the generic schedule at
http://developer.r-project.org/release-checklist.html
The source tarballs will be made available daily (barring build
troubles) and the tarballs can be picked up at
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/
a little later.
Binary builds are expected to appear starting Friday June 19 at the latest.
For the Core Team
Peter Dalgaard
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From tlumley at u.washington.edu Mon Jul 28 02:16:50 2003
From: tlumley at u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:16:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: survey package
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.44.0307271703170.159126-100000@homer06.u.washington.edu>
Version 1.9 of the survey package, now percolating through CRAN, adds a
beta implementation of replication weights. These can either be created
from a survey design (using BRR, JK1, or JKn schemes) or provided by the
user. These have been tested on only a few examples so far: there seem to
be relatively few published datasets with suitable analyses.
As with earlier versions of the package, I particularly welcome feedback
on the user interface from practising survey statisticians.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Fri Aug 31 15:55:48 2001
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 31 Aug 2001 15:55:48 +0200
Subject: R-1.3.1 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I've rolled up R-1.3.1.tgz a short while ago. This is a minor upgrade,
fixing a number of bugs and only containing a few small new features.
The most immediately visible new feature is that "less" is used for
viewing help pages if available.
A set of recommended packages which have been tested with R-1.3.1 has
been bundled up. Binary distributions are expected to include these
packages. The mgcv package is included this time (we intended to have
it in 1.3.0, but encountered portability problems).
Please note (as for 1.3.0) that the former "survival5" package is now
named "survival". If you install over an existing installation which
has survival5 installed, make sure to "R CMD REMOVE survival5"
You can get the files from the developer site
ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.3.1.tgz
ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.3.1-recommended.tgz
or
http://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.3.1.tgz
http://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.3.1-recommended.tgz
or wait for them to be mirrored at a CRAN site near you. This will
probably happen after the weekend due to circumstances in Vienna.
Binaries for various platforms will appear in due course.
There are also versions split for floppies, and a patch file relative
to R-1.3.0.
For the R Core Team,
Peter D.
Here's the relevant part of the NEWS file:
CHANGES IN R VERSION 1.3.1
NEW FEATURES
o massage-examples is now a Perl script and about 50x faster.
o On Unix(-alike) systems the default pager is now determined
during configuration, and is `less' if available, otherwise
`more' (and not `more -s' as previously).
o configure now tests for strptime functions that fail on inputs
before 1970 (found on Irix). It no longer checks for the SCSL
and SGIMATH libraries on Irix.
o New formula interface to cor.test() in package ctest.
o "NA" is now a valid color name (as NA has been a valid integer
color).
o pairs() function has a new `gap' argument for adjusting the
spacing between panels.
o R CMD check has a new test for unbalanced braces in Rd files.
o readBin() has a new argument `signed' to simplify reading
unsigned 8- and 16-bit integers.
o New capabilities() option "cledit".
o Modified restore code to give clearer error messages in some cases.
BUG FIXES
o Fixed placement of mtext() output (including tick labels)
when text is perpendicular to axis AND axis is logged
(PR#997 and PR#865).
o rect() and arrows() now respond to setting of par(xpd)
o abline() now responds to the setting of par(xpd), including
via the "..." argument (PR#750).
o Using cat() to a gzfile() connection no longer compresses poorly
(at the expense of some latency).
o The `exact' p-values for the two-sided two-sample
Kolmogorov-Smirnov test in 1.3.0 were for the wrong tail.
o In the HTML conversion of .Rd files, \link[foo]{bar} was
ignoring [foo] outside \code{} statements.
o lm.influence(), plot.lm(), influence.measures() and the
related diagnostic measures now handle lm() fits with
na.action=na.exclude.
o Eliminated segmentation fault in while loops without braces
in their bodies.
o barplot did not accept NA heights unless ylim was specified.
o predict.lm() failed with single-column model matrix (PR#1018).
o legend() now also works with 100s of entries (thanks to
M. Schlather).
o A long-standing bug leading to inaccuracy in polyroot() has been
fixed (PR#751)
o A very old bug with eval() not handling a numeric `envir' argument
according to specifications has been fixed. [This in particular
broke ported S-PLUS code that used eval(..., sys.parent())]. Also,
eval() now checks that a numeric `envir' has length one to prevent
accidental passing of matrices instead of data frames.
o The C code underlying nlm(f, *) now also works correctly when f(x)
returns +Inf {nlm() itself *did* work!}.
o pdfcolor.tex is now included in doc/manual, as pdftex seems no
longer to include it.
o Fixed protect bug in save() code that might have been responsible
for occasionally saving corrupted workspaces.
o capabilities("X11") now reports if X11 is available in this
session, thereby giving the correct answer if --gui=none was
specified.
o Rd files with ,, inside \code{} were treating this as a
ligature in LaTeX: now corrected in Rdconv.
o dlopen on Compaq Tru64 was finding the wrong entry points:
worked-around by using different names in the modules.
o plot.mts() allows a type argument again (broken in 1.3.0: PR#1010).
o scan() has a limit of 8190 on the length of char strings, and
now warns if it is exceeded (when the string has always been
truncated).
o par adj now accepts values of integer mode (such as text(adj=0:1)).
o horizontal adj values outside the range [0, 1] are now
supported on devices with canHAdj==1 (Windows devices, xfig).
o xtabs() without a response was ignoring drop.unused.levels=TRUE.
o readLines(ok=FALSE) was not generating an error when it should.
o princomp(covmat=) has been broken.
o Many documentation clean-ups: formerly undocumented arguments,
use of T/F rather than TRUE/FALSE.
o df[] <- foo now works for data frames (PR#1047).
o nargs() was documented incorrectly.
o Using seq.POSIXt(by="2 weeks") was stepping by single weeks
(PR#1046).
o dummy.coef.lm was not handling complex terms like z:I(x).
It now either does or warns and gives NAs (PR#1048).
o predict.mlm() was broken (PR#1049).
o ksmooth (in package modreg) was using points to the left
of the kernel under some circumstances (PR#1050).
o attr(x, "class") <- character(0) was segfaulting. Similar problem
with "comment" attribute also fixed.
o loadings() results from PCA (as well as from factor analysis)
are now printed by print.loadings.
o Using chol() on an non-positive-definite matrix gave an
misleading error message (PR#1061).
o as.character() on a language object was truncating to about 70
characters: the internal limit (from the deparse code) is now the
maximum possible 500.
o X11() device was failing to re-initialize correctly after all
devices were shut down, so the colortype could not be changed
and some systems showed protocol errors. (PR#1065)
o Converting Inf and NaN values by as.character() and reading by
scan() was supported by strtod on some platforms and not
others: these are now handled by R itself. (PR#1072)
o hclust(dist(1)) doesn't loop infinitely but signal an error.
o cutree() can now cut outside heights and does not return
garbage for h >= max(tree$heights) anymore. (PR#1067)
o interaction(...,drop=F) returned an object looking like a
factor, but with storage mode "double", confusing
model.matrix.default (PR#1003)
o splineDesign(*, ord=) and others give better error messages for
wrong `ord' (and have slightly improved documentation).
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(*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918
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From pd.mes at cbs.dk Fri Oct 31 11:13:24 2014
From: pd.mes at cbs.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:13:24 +0100
Subject: [R] R 3.1.2 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
The build system rolled up R-3.1.2.tar.gz (codename "Pumpkin Helmet") 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-3.1.2.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 md5sums for the freshly created files, in case you wish
to check that they are uncorrupted:
MD5 (AUTHORS) = 23bbd5f6f8060f187cc02a7b84b342b5
MD5 (COPYING) = eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a
MD5 (COPYING.LIB) = a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343
MD5 (FAQ) = c1e4c113071453c7832e5d9ecea623eb
MD5 (INSTALL) = 3964b9119adeaab9ceb633773fc94aac
MD5 (NEWS) = 15cc434143e5e9a8ae3d34eead26521c
MD5 (NEWS.0) = bfcd7c147251b5474d96848c6f57e5a8
MD5 (NEWS.1) = eb78c4d053ec9c32b815cf0c2ebea801
MD5 (NEWS.2) = 8e2f4d1d5228663ae598a09bf1e2bc6b
MD5 (NEWS.html) = 561c491e3bf9554c86675b614c85d34c
MD5 (R-latest.tar.gz) = 3af29ec06704cbd08d4ba8d69250ae74
MD5 (R.css) = 444535b9cb76ddff1bab1e1865a3fb14
MD5 (README) = aece1dfbd18c1760128c3787f5456af6
MD5 (RESOURCES) = a59076c1ac7e9bab0f0a38b3f57a3914
MD5 (THANKS) = 1989ce89fb3891420c9964dc418ab71c
MD5 (R-3/R-3.1.2.tar.gz) = 3af29ec06704cbd08d4ba8d69250ae74
This is the relevant part of the NEWS file
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
characters from RFC 3986, <URL:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986>, instead of RFC 1738.
* unique(warnings()) and c(warnings()) are now supported.
* The Bioconductor 'version' used by setRepositories() now defaults
to 3.0. (It can be set at runtime _via_ environment variable
R_BIOC_VERSION.)
INSTALLATION and INCLUDED SOFTWARE:
* The configure script reports on the more important
capabilities/options which will not be compiled in.
More types of external BLAS are recognized by name in that
report.
* When building R as a shared library, the -L${R_HOME}/lib${R_ARCH}
flag is placed earlier in the link commands used during
installation and when packages are installed: this helps ensure
that the current build has priority if an R shared library has
already been installed by e.g. install-libR in a library
mentioned in LDFLAGS (and not in 'your system's library
directory' as documented). (Wish of PR#15790.)
* LaTeX package upquote is no longer required for R's use of
inconsolata.
* (Windows only) If both 32 and 64 bit versions of R are installed,
the bin/R.exe and bin/Rscript.exe executables now run 64 bit R.
(To run 32 bit R, overwrite these files with copies of
bin/i386/Rfe.exe.)
UTILITIES:
* Running R CMD check with _R_CHECK_DEPENDS_ONLY_ true now makes
the VignetteBuilder packages available even if they are listed in
Suggests, since they are needed to recognise and process
non-Sweave vignettes.
* R CMD check now reports empty importFrom declarations in a
NAMESPACE file, as these are common errors (writing
importFrom(Pkg) where import(Pkg) was intended).
* R CMD check now by default checks code usage directly on the
package namespace without loading and attaching the package and
its suggests and enhances. For good practice with packages in
the Suggests field, see SS1.1.3.1 of 'Writing R Extensions'. For
use of lazy-data objects in the package's own code, see ?data.
BUG FIXES:
* dmultinom() did not handle non-finite probabilities correctly.
* prettyNum(x, zero.print=*) now also works when x contains NAs.
* A longstanding bug exhibited by nlminb() on Windows was traced to
a compiler bug in gcc 4.6.3; a workaround has been put in place.
(PR#15244 and PR#15914).
* Rendering of \command in HTML versions of help pages has been
improved: this is particularly evident on the help page for
INSTALL.
* as.hexmode(x) and as.octmode(x) now behave correctly for some
numeric x, e.g., c(NA, 1) or c(1, pi).
* drop1() failed if the scope argument had no variables to drop.
(PR#15935)
* edit() (and hence fix()) failed if an object had a non-character
attribute named "source" (an attribute that had been used in R
prior to version 2.14.0).
* callGeneric() could fail if the generic had ... as a formal
argument. (PR#15937).
* Forking in package parallel called C entry point exit in the
child. This was unsafe (_exit should have been called), and
could flush stdin of the main R process (seen most often on
Solaris).
As good practice, stdout is now flushed before forking a child.
* R objects such as list(`a\b` = 1) now print correctly.
* getAnywhere("C_pbinom") now returns correctly a single object
(rather than unlisting it).
* The confint() method for nls() fits failed it these has specified
parameter limits despite using an algorithm other than "port".
(PR#15960)
* Subclassing an S4 class failed if the class required arguments to
the generator, through its initialize() method.
* removeSource() did not properly handle expressions containing
arguments that were supplied as missing, e.g. x[i,]. (PR#15957)
* as.environment(list()) now works, and as.list() of such an
environment is now the same as list().
* Several tcltk functions failed when run in unusual environments.
(PR#15970)
* options(list()) now works (trivially). (PR#15979)
* merge(<dendrogram>, ..) now works correctly for two `independent'
dendrograms (PR#15648), and still compatibly via adjust = "auto"
e.g. for two branches of an existing dendrogram.
* The plot method for "hclust" objects gets an optional argument
check; When that is true (the default) it checks more carefully
for valid input.
* (Windows only) If a user chose to install 64 bit R but not 32 bit
R, the bin/R and bin/Rscript executables failed to run.
(PR#15981)
* Various possible buffer overruns have been prevented, and missed
memory protection added. (PR#15990)
* Rscript no longer passes --args to R when there are no extra
("user") arguments.
* objects like getClass("refClass")@prototype now print() and str()
without error.
* identical() now also looks at the S4 bit.
* hist(x, breaks) is more robust in adding a small fuzz to few
breaks when some are very large. (PR#15988)
* sub() and gsub() did not handle regular expressions like "\s{2,}"
properly if the text contained NA or non-ascii elements in a
UTF-8 locale. Part of this was due to a bug in the TRE library.
(PR#16009)
* RShowDoc("NEWS") now displays the PDF version.
* Matrices and arrays with last dimension zero did not print at all
or incompletely. (PR#16012)
* plot.histogram() and hence hist() now respect the xaxs, yaxs and
lab graphics parameters. (PR#16021)
* bw.SJ(x) and other bw.*() no longer segfault when x contains
non-finite values. (PR#16024)
* R CMD Rd2pdf unintentionally ignored its --os option.
* The internal method of download.file() was not reporting file
sizes and progress correctly on files larger than 2GB (inherited
from libxml2). This is corrected for 64-bit builds (32-bit
platforms may not support such files, but where possible will be
supported in future versions of R).
* Work around a bug in OS X Yosemite where key environment
variables may be duplicated causing issues in subprocesses. The
duplicates are now removed on R startup (via Rprofile).
(PR#16042)
* Adjust X11 auto-launch detection in DISPLAY on OS X to recognize
latest XQuartz.
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From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Mon Oct 18 11:13:08 1999
From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:13:08 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CRAN downtimes
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Hi,
we had a broken heating system (in the floor above us) resulting in a
water burst .... my office looks like if a bomb has exploded ...
Currently our server is up and running again (it was down over the
weekend) ... but we will move out of the devastated rooms and hence
the CARN master might be down one or more times during the rest of the
week. We'll try to keep the down times as short as possible.
Best,
Fritz
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From mikalzet at libero.it Fri Dec 21 09:51:15 2001
From: mikalzet at libero.it (mikalzet at libero.it)
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:51:15 +0100 (CET)
Subject: R-1.4.0 RPM's and SRPMS for Mandrake available
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
R 1.4.0 RPM's built for Mandrake 8.1 as well as Mandrake SRPM's are now
available on CRAN.
Anyone with an earlier version of Mandrake can download the SRPM's and
rebuild them for his own system (a detailed readme file is provided)
and hopefully contribute the binaries.
--
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From hothorn at hothorn.de Wed Apr 25 12:56:40 2007
From: hothorn at hothorn.de (Torsten Hothorn)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:56:40 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: R News, volume 7, issue 1 is now available
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Hi
The October 2006 issue of R News is now available on CRAN under the
Documentation/Newsletter link.
Torsten
(on behalf of the R News Editorial Board)
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From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Wed Jul 16 11:13:46 2003
From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:13:46 +0200
Subject: CRAN package orphanizing process
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
As the list of packages on CRAN becomes longer almost on a weekly
basis, we need a formal mechanism to handle the case when somebody
wants to resign from maintaining a package.
Possible reasons for orphanizing a package:
1) The current maintainer actively wants to orphanize the package,
e.g., because he has no longer the time or interest to act as
package maintainer.
2) The current maintainer does not answer to emails by the CRAN admins
for longer periods of time.
The orphanizing process:
1) The package gets the special keyword "ORPHANED" as maintainer in
the DESCRIPTION file, the patch level of the version number is
increased.
2) The package is moved from $CRAN/src/contrib to
$CRAN/src/contrin/Orphaned.
3) As long as the package passes "R CMD check" for the current release
version of R, it additionally remains in $CRAN/src/contrib/.
Everybody is more than welcome to take over as maintainer of an
orphaned package. Simply download the package sources, make changes if
necessary (respecting original author and license!) and resubmit the
package to CRAN with your name as maintainer in the DESCRIPTION file
of the package.
For the CRAN admins,
Fritz Leisch
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From p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz Thu Jun 1 04:44:30 2006
From: p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz (Paul Murrell)
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:44:30 +1200
Subject: R News, volume 6, issue 2 is now available
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Hi
The May 2006 issue of R News is now available on CRAN under the
Documentation/Newsletter link.
Paul
(on behalf of the R News EditorialBoard)
--
Dr Paul Murrell
Department of Statistics
The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
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From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Thu Jun 4 14:16:01 1998
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 13:16:01 +0100 (BST)
Subject: MASS libraries for R
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
We have made a nearly complete set of the V&R2 libraries for R.
These are in the devel section of contributions to CRAN as
VR5.3pl021-1.tar.gz
and at
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/R/VR5.3pl021-1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/R/VR5.3pl021-1.tar.gz
They have been developed under a very recent snapshot, and this is
probably needed. Also in that file is a set of scripts from the book
modified for use with R.
This is a beta-test version: we are interested to hear of your
experiences but will not support this seriously until R-0.62 is
released. We are grateful to Kurt Hornik and Albrecht Gebhardt
for their work on earlier versions.
The current status is
MASS: almost all working, the remaining things depend
on bug fixes or on Trellis, nls, ...
class OK
nnet OK
spatial OK
To come are a R clone of the tree() software and of RPART, both
of which are done but need more testing.
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr)
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From david.firth at nuffield.oxford.ac.uk Tue Oct 29 12:19:48 2002
From: david.firth at nuffield.oxford.ac.uk (David Firth)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:19:48 +0000
Subject: new package CGIwithR
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
A package "CGIwithR" is now available at CRAN. It
is designed to allow R to be used as a CGI scripting
language on Unix-like systems (including Mac OS X with
the Darwin installation of R).
Why bother? Well, CGIwithR is provided in case there are others
like myself who either
(i) wish to provide a special-purpose calculator on the web
which uses R for its computation
or
(ii) wish to collect/process information via web forms,
but don't want to learn a new language such as Perl
A user manual is provided with the package (as well as the
standard R help pages).
CGIwithR has not been tested on systems other than my own,
so I would very much welcome reports on any successes or
failures with it.
If someone wants to port it to Windows...
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Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 09:24:34 +0100
Subject: useR! 2020 survey
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Dear All,
We hope you have been able to watch/attend some of the breakout sessions, keynotes, R core panel, contributed tutorials, or online tutorials that were part of the useR! 2020 program.
We'd appreciate it you took 5 minutes to let us know a bit more about yourself and what you thought of useR! this year, by answering the useR! 2020 survey: bit.ly/useR2020survey.
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From pd.mes at cbs.dk Thu Jul 10 10:51:52 2014
From: pd.mes at cbs.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:51:52 +0200
Subject: [R] R 3.1.1 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
The build system rolled up R-3.1.1.tar.gz (codename "Sock it to Me") 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-3.1.1.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. Perhaps with some delays due to vacations. In particular, the Mac OS X maintainer is traveling and may be without Internet access for some days yet.
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:
MD5 (AUTHORS) = cbf6da8f886ccd8d0dda0cc7ffd1b8ec
MD5 (COPYING) = eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a
MD5 (COPYING.LIB) = a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343
MD5 (FAQ) = 19b98552686c3f3c95a6028596c533e9
MD5 (INSTALL) = 3964b9119adeaab9ceb633773fc94aac
MD5 (NEWS) = bf2c79e7fd7e2dff621a3a8410c89bb4
MD5 (NEWS.0) = bfcd7c147251b5474d96848c6f57e5a8
MD5 (NEWS.1) = eb78c4d053ec9c32b815cf0c2ebea801
MD5 (NEWS.2) = e840d32b7ef7a7603455d30d6d54fda7
MD5 (NEWS.html) = 206dc0c4dc31004f245813b403ec6d6a
MD5 (R-latest.tar.gz) = 2598f5bbbedb00e463e0c1385e6fe999
MD5 (README) = aece1dfbd18c1760128c3787f5456af6
MD5 (RESOURCES) = c7cb32499ebbf85deb064aab282f93a4
MD5 (THANKS) = d4b45e302b7cad0fc4bb50d2cfe69649
MD5 (R-3/R-3.1.1.tar.gz) = 2598f5bbbedb00e463e0c1385e6fe999
This is the relevant part of the NEWS file
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
smooth.spline() is now exported, as .nknots.smspl().
* dbeta(, a,b), pbeta(), qbeta() and rbeta() are now defined also
for a = 0, b = 0, or infinite a and b (where they typically
returned NaN before).
* Many package authors report that the RStudio graphics device does
not work correctly with their package's use of dev.new(). The
new option dev.new(noRStudioGD = TRUE) replaces the RStudio
override by the default device as selected by R itself, still
respecting environment variables R_INTERACTIVE_DEVICE and
R_DEFAULT_DEVICE.
* readRDS() now returns visibly.
* Modifying internal logical scalar constants now results in an
error instead of a warning.
* install.packages(repos = NULL) now accepts http:// or ftp:// URLs
of package archives as well as file paths, and will download as
required. In most cases repos = NULL can be deduced from the
extension of the URL.
* The warning when using partial matching with the $ operator on
data frames is now only given when
options("warnPartialMatchDollar") is TRUE.
* Package help requests like package?foo now try the package foo
whether loaded or not.
* General help requests now default to trying all loaded packages,
not just those on the search path.
* Added a new function promptImport(), to generate a help page for
a function that was imported from another package (and presumably
re-exported, or help would not be needed).
INSTALLATION and INCLUDED SOFTWARE:
* configure option --with-internal-tzcode can now be used with
variable rsharedir.
* The included version of PCRE has been updated to 8.35.
* There is a new target make uninstall-libR to remove an installed
shared/static libR.
make install-libR now works if a sub-architecture is used,
although the user will need to specify libdir differently for
different sub-architectures.
* There is more extensive advice on which LaTeX packages are
required to install R or to make package manuals (as done by R
CMD check) in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.
* Compilers/linkers were handling the visibility controls in
src/extra/xz inconsistently (and apparently in some cases
incorrectly), so it has been simplified. (PR#15327)
* (Windows) There is updated support for the use of ICU for
collation: see the 'R Installation and Administration Manual'.
BUG FIXES:
* dbinom(x, n), pbinom(), dpois(), etc, are slightly less
restrictive in checking if n is integer-valued. (Wish of
PR#15734.)
* pchisq(x, df, ncp, log.p = TRUE) is more accurate and no longer
underflows for small x and ncp < 80, e.g, for pchisq(1e-5, df =
100, ncp = 1, log = TRUE). (Based on PR#15635 and a suggestion
by Roby Joehanes.)
* The s ("step into") command in the debugger would cause R to step
into expressions evaluated there, not just into functions being
debugged. (PR#15770)
* The C code used by strptime() rejected time-zone offsets of more
than +1200 (+1245, +1300 and +1400 can occur). (PR#15768)
* (Windows only.) png(type = "cairo", antialias = "gray") was not
accepted. (PR#15760)
* Use of save(..., envir=) with named objects could fail.
(PR#15758)
* Sweave() mis-parsed Sexpr expressions that contained backslashes.
(PR#15779)
* The return value from options(foo = NULL) was not the previous
value of the option. (PR#15781)
* enc2utf8() and enc2native() did not always mark the encoding of
the return values when it was known.
* dnbinom(x, size = <large>, mu, log = TRUE) no longer underflows
to -Inf for large mu, thanks to a suggestion from Alessandro
Mammana (MPI MolGen, Berlin).
* pbeta(x, a, b, log = TRUE) no longer behaves discontinuously (in
a small x-region) because of denormalized numbers. Also,
pbeta(1-1e-12, 1e30, 1.001, log=TRUE) now terminates "in real
time".
* The "CRAN" filter (see available.packages()) no longer removes
duplicates other than of packages on CRAN, and does not fail if
there is no CRAN repository in getOption("repos").
* The device listing from dev2bitmap() and bitmap() was truncated
to 1000 characters: modern versions of GhostScript on most
platforms have many more devices.
* (Windows.) Commands such as Sys.which() and pipe() which needed
to find the full path to a command could segfault if the 'long'
path name was much longer than the 'short' path name (which
Sys.which() returns), as the behaviour of the Windows API call
had changed.
* R CMD build will fail with an error if one of the packages
specified in the VignetteBuilder field is not installed.
(Without loading those packages it cannot be ascertained which
files are intended to be vignettes. This means that the
VignetteBuilder packages have to be installed for package
checking too.) (Wish of PR#15775.)
* Misguided attempts to use chull() with non-finite points now give
an error (related to PR#15777).
* For a formula with exactly 32 variables the 32nd variable was
aliased to the intercept in some C-level computations of terms,
so that for example attempting to remove it would remove the
intercept instead (and leave a corrupt internal structure).
(PR#15735)
* anyDuplicated() silently returned wrong values when the first
duplicate was at an index which was too large to be stored in an
integer vector (although a lot of RAM and patience would have
been needed to encounter this).
* tools::Rd2ex(commentDontrun = FALSE) failed if the block had only
one line.
* Hexadecimal constants such as 0x110p-5L which were incorrectly
qualified by L were parsed incorrectly since R 3.0.0, with a
slightly garbled warning. (PR#15753)
* system() returned success on some platforms even if the system
was unable to launch a process. (PR#15796)
* (Windows Rgui console.) Unbuffered output was sometimes not
output immediately if the prompt was not on the last line of the
console.
* The built-in help server did not declare the encoding for the
DESCRIPTION or other text files to be the package encoding, so
non-ASCII characters could be displayed incorrectly.
* R is now trying harder to not cleanup child processes that were
not spawned by mcparallel() on platforms that provide information
about the source process of the SIGCHLD signal. This allows 3rd
party libraries to manage the exit status of children that they
spawn without R interfering.
* mcmapply() was only parallelizing if the number of jobs was
bigger than the number of cores. It now parallelizes if the
number of jobs is more than one.
* Auto-printing would re-evaluate its argument when trying to
dispatch to a print method. This is now avoided when possible.
* Unserializing (including load() and readRDS()) could silently
return incorrect numeric values from ASCII saves if there was a
read error.
* getParseData() could return incorrect values for the parents of
some elements. (Reported by Andrew Redd.)
* Attempting to use data frames of 2^31 or more rows with merge()
or to create a merged data frame of that size now gives a clearer
error message.
* parse() did not check its file argument was a connection if it
was not a character string, so e.g. parse(FALSE) attempted to
read from stdin.
Nor did dump() and dput().
* The "help.try.all.packages" option was ignored when the shortcut
syntax for help was used, e.g. ?foo.
* A potential segfault in string allocation has been fixed. (Found
by Radford Neal.)
* Potential memory protection errors in sort() and D() have been
fixed. (Found by Radford Neal.)
* Fixed a lack of error checking in graphics event functions.
(Found by Radford Neal; a different patch used here than the one
in pqR.)
* numericDeriv() sometimes miscalculated the gradient. (PR#15849,
reported originally by Radford Neal)
--
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Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
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From p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz Fri Aug 18 01:25:05 2006
From: p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz (Paul Murrell)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:25:05 +1200
Subject: DSC 2007
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Hi
This is a second call for abstracts.
Please forward and circulate to other interested parties.
[apologies for any cross-posting]
DSC 2007, a conference on systems and environments for statistical
computing, will take place in Auckland, New Zealand on February 15 & 16,
2007.
We invite abstracts on the development of software systems and computing
environments for interactive statistics. The workshop will focus on,
but is not limited to, open source statistical computing.
The deadline for submitting abstracts is 2006-10-15 (October 15th).
Please visit the conference web page at
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/dsc-2007/
and send abstracts (one page) to dsc2007 at stat.auckland.ac.nz
Paul
(on behalf of the Organising Committee)
--
Dr Paul Murrell
Department of Statistics
The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland
New Zealand
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paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz
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From Virgilio.Gomez at uv.es Thu Oct 24 18:29:56 2002
From: Virgilio.Gomez at uv.es (Virgilio.Gomez at uv.es)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:29:56 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: RArcInfo 0.4 released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Hi,
A new release of RArcInfo is out. The new features are:
- Two new functions to import from/to E00 files to/from binray
coverages, which means that now it is possible to import E00 files
if they are previosly converted to a binary coverage.
- Minor changes in read.coverage
- New function 'thinlines' to reduce the number of points in the arcs
according to the resolution we are interested in.
Besides, there is a new website:
http://matheron.uv.es/~virgil/Rpackages/RArcInfo
There you can find useful information about RArcInfo, free data,
interesting links, etc. In a few weeks I will release a tutorial,
with examples based on free available data.
Comments are welcome.
Regards,
Virgilio
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From mariabeth.silkey at predict.ch Wed Apr 10 18:27:06 2002
From: mariabeth.silkey at predict.ch (Mariabeth Silkey)
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:27:06 +0200
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Seats are still available for the S-PLUS Essentials course May 13/16 in
London.
R-users may choose to register for just the command line portion of the
course, as that
material is most relevant to them.
S-PLUS Essentials is a hands-on training course that covers a broad spectrum
of topics from importing data to fitting statistical models. At the
conclusion of the course the student will have a working knowledge of the
syntax of the S-PLUS language. Both traditional and trellis graphs will be
explored. In addition to function writing in the context of graphing and
statistics, the course will present tools for connecting to C-code. While
the material is presented here in the Windows environment, references to
Unix are made where appropriate.
Course: S-PLUS Essentials
(full description:
http://www.uk.insightful.com/SPLUSMain/training/info/Essentials.htm
Dates: May 13-16, 2002
City: London
Price Commercial Delegates: 1,200 GBP + VAT (1410 GBP)
Academic Delegates: 800 GBP + VAT (940 GBP)
To Register:- Web:
http://www.uk.insightful.com/SPLUSMain/training/regform.htm
- Email: KRichardson at uk.insightful.com
- Call: Karen Richardson at: +44 1276 450 119
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From jago at mclink.it Thu Jan 31 23:23:50 2002
From: jago at mclink.it (Stefano Iacus)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:23:50 +0100
Subject: R-141 for Mac
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
R for Macintosh have been just released and mirrored in few hours on
CRAN.
The Carbon version is distributes in one file only with all the base
distribution and the recommended packages.
The Darwin version has been already distributed by Jan de Leeuw and now
mirrored on CRAN.
Contributed packages for the Carbon R141 will follow next week.
Stefano
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From P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Fri Feb 8 12:18:00 2008
From: P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:18:00 +0100
Subject: R 2.6.2 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I've rolled up R-2.6.2.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-2.6.2.tar.gz
or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you. Binaries
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Here is the relevant bit of the NEWS file:
CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.6.2
NEW FEATURES
o colnames(DF) is now also fast for large dataframes DF with
automatic row.names. Note that the correct usage is
names(DF). (PR#10470)
o tools::texi2dvi() works around the failure of 'texi2dvi --quiet'
to be quiet in texinfo 4.11.
o On Linux, parallel 32/64-bit installations are supported using
multilib.
BUG FIXES
o A compilation problem on one system where glob was not found
has been corrected. (PR#10468)
o The "profile.nls" method of plot() was losing the x axis labels.
o array() computed the total number of entries in the array before
coercing the dimensions to integer. (Reported by Allen McIntosh.)
o persp() misreported errors in the y parameter. (Reported by Allen
McIntosh.)
o source("clipboard", echo=TRUE) and file("clipboard", open="rt")
gave spurious errors. (Reported by Fernando Saldanha.)
o attributes<-() stripped any existing attributes before checking
that all elements of the right-hand side had names.
o rbinom(n, size, *) gave NaN when 'size > .Machine$integer.max'.
o print.summary.lm() is now consistent in the capitalization of
"R-squared".
o confint() misreported on some rank-deficient lm() models.
(PR#10496) This could also occur in the default method.
o \code{\var{<name>}} was not rendered correctly to latex in Rd
files for non-alphabetic arguments <name>.
o In 2.6.1, curve(*, add=TRUE) used a wrong default 'xlim' when x
coordinates were logged.
o The Java-based search in help.start() now only requires a
JVM >= 1.4 (2.6.1 accidentally required >= 1.5).
o The default method for range() was omitting 'na.rm' for
non-numeric objects such as those of class "Date". (PR#10508)
o cut(x, breaks=<n>) misbehaved on a constant vector of negative
values.
o bxp(), the plotting engine of boxplot(), no longer plots staple
ticks multiple times. (PR#10499)
o The automatic detection of the domain for message translation
was not working correctly for messages in message(), warning()
and stop() in packages other than 'base'.
o The profile.nls() function misbehaved when encountering
non-convergence of the "port" algorithm.
o Under certain rare circumstances in R 2.6.x, log(), round()
and trunc() could alter their arguments in the caller. This
involved passing of empty '...' arguments, and was spotted
when using apply(x, 2, log).
o par() no longer warns unnecessarily when asked to set new=FALSE
on an unused graphics device.
o plot.formula() was not passing on '...' when used with a
one-sided formula.
plot.formula() was not accepting expressions for annotations
passed to title(). (PR#10525)
o pchisq(x, df=0, ncp=L) now returns the correct limit exp(-L/2) for
x=0 and is no longer returning NaN for x > 0, L < 80. (PR#10551)
o Non-ASCII characters were only working correctly in Hershey
fonts if these were specified by the 'vfont' argument to
text() and not if specified as a font family.
o There were several errors in Hershey$allowed, but the help
page listed the allowed combinations correctly.
o text() no longer attempts to use 'vfont' with an expression
for 'labels' (it was documented not to work).
o fisher.test(simulate.p.value = TRUE) gave incorrect answers
in some extremely degenerate problems. (PR#10558)
o src/extra/pcre has been updated to PCRE 7.5 (bugfix release).
o capture.output() completes an incomplete final line of
output when file = NULL. (PR#10534)
o capture.output() now returns invisibly if output is written to
a file/connection.
o format.AsIs() did not remove the "AsIs" class and so could go
into an infinite loop.
o summary.mlm() lost the names of the coefficients when there
was only one.
o Rdconv was not marking examples files with an encoding if
this was known from the package's DESCRIPTION file.
o readChar() from a raw vector was reading a number of bytes,
not characters.
o slotNames() was erroneously treating classes that extend
"character" as strings.
o R no longer ignores SIGPIPE signals even in processes launched
by system(). Instead PR#1959 is handled by a simple error
handler which will give an error message in circumstances
where none was given before.
o The AIC() S4 generic in package stats4 no longer disables
dispatch of S3 methods for AIC().
o The conflicts check in library() excluded all S4 generics, even
where they were unrelated to the function masked. It is now
more selective (although still too generous to S4 generics).
o proc.time() was missing a protect and could misbehave if
provoked by gctorture(). (PR#10600)
o The cut() and hist() methods for dates and datetimes are now
more accurate for intervals of "months" and "years", thanks to
Marc Schwarz.
o url()/download.file() could segfault if the HTTP interaction
involved a redirect to an address starting with '/' on the
same server.
o Memory allocations used in format() and in an internal utility
function could be off by one byte. (PR#10635)
o isoreg(x, y) no longer segfaults when y has NAs.
o split(x, g) always returns a list as documented. (It used to
return NULL for a zero-length 'x'.)
o tapply(x, g, ...) misbehaved if the args were of zero length.
(PR#10644)
o hist.POSIXt(*, xaxt = "n") no longer suppresses the y-axis.
o strptime() crashed under certain locales on Mac OS X.
o gregexpr() no longer segfaults when "" is given as the search
pattern. Thanks to Herve Pages for the bug report.
o matplot(x, *) with default 'pch' did not plot columns from column
number 37 on (because the default pch was NA for those). (PR#10676)
o print.htest() lost output when used within sink(file, split=TRUE).
o Setting par(col.main=) also set par("col") to the same colour.
o Anonymous fifos were broken (again).
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From zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at Tue Apr 24 17:50:32 2001
From: zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Achim Zeileis)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:50:32 +0200
Subject: DSC 2001 Proceedings Announcement
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
We are pleased to announce that the proceedings of the
2nd International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing
March 15-17, 2001, Technische Universit?t Wien, Vienna, Austria
are now available online at
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC.html
Citing Thomas Lumley's conference summary:
``DSC 2001: Cooperation between programs (and programmers)
There were about 30 presentations over the three days of the
conference, with speakers from universities, industrial research
groups, and software companies in twelve countries. Despite the
programmed sessions' running about 30% over time there was lively
discussion over coffee and lunch and in during the conference's social
program.
DSC 2001 emphasized the value of high quality open source software as
a statistical research platform but also for the ultimate goal of
delivering modern statistical methods to those with little knowledge
of (or interest in) statistical computing.''
Table of Contents:
-------------------
Summary
Thomas Lumley DSC 2001: Cooperation between
programs (and programmers)
Contributions
Anna Bartkowiak A Set of XLispStat Subroutines
for Detecting Outliers
Douglas Bates, Saikat C++ Classes for R Objects
DebRoy
Roger Bivand R and geographical information
systems, especially GRASS
Vince Carey GEE solvers: case studies in
DSC design and implementation
Peter Dalgaard The R-Tcl/Tk interface
John W. Eaton Octave: Past, Present and
Future
Robert Gentleman Modeling with Objects
Richard M. Heiberger Emacs Speaks Statistics: One
Interface - Many Programs
Torsten Hothorn, David R/S Interfaces to Databases
A. James,
Brian D. Ripley
Stefano Iacus R porting for the Macintosh
Ross Ihaka R Graphics - The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly
Thomas Lumley Orca [ R [ RJava]]
Duncan Murdoch RGL: An R Interface to OpenGL
Paul Murrell R Lattice Graphics
Balasubramanian JDiehard: An implementation of
Narasimhan Diehard in Java
Erich Neuwirth, Thomas Embedding R in Standard
Baier Software, and the other way
round
Erich Neuwirth R sings - or using R to sonify
data
B. D. Ripley, R. M. Applications of R Clients and
Ripley Servers
Anthony Rossini Literate Statistical Analysis
Duncan Temple Lang, GGobi meets R: an extensible
Deborah F. Swayne environment for interactive
dynamic data visualization
Duncan Temple Lang Embedding S in Other Languages
and Environments
Martin Theus What dataminers want
Luke Tierney Compiling R: A Preliminary
Report
Antony Unwin R objects, two interfaces! (R
objects to interfaces?)
Mikko Virtanen Distributing data to different
platforms using XML
Gregory R. Warnes Hydra: A Java library for
Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Hengyi Xue, E. James JavaStat: A Distributed
Harner Statistical Computing
Environment
Gilles Zumbach, Adrian Orla: A data flow programming
Trapletti system for processing very
large time series
For the organizing committee
Achim Zeileis
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Institut f?r Statistik
Technische Universti?t Wien
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From P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk Tue Mar 3 15:29:37 2009
From: P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:29:37 +0100
Subject: REMINDER: DSC 2009 abstract submission before March 15
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Just a friendly reminder that the closing date for abstract submissions
for the DSC conference in Copenhagen is next Sunday.
See
http://www.r-project.org/dsc-2009
Notice that the website has been revised since we decided to engage a
professional convention bureau. The good news is that payment by credit
card is now possible. The slightly bad news is that there are now two
separate registration paths: one for participation and one for abstracts.
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From guido at hal.stat.unipd.it Tue Sep 4 17:00:11 2001
From: guido at hal.stat.unipd.it (Guido Masarotto)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 17:00:11 +0200
Subject: R-1.3.1 for Windows
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
A binary distribution of R-1.3.1 to run on Windows 95, 98, NT4.0 and 2000
on Intel/clone chips is available at
http://sirio.stat.unipd.it/RWin
It will be mirrored at a CRAN site near you in a couple of days.
See below for a list of Windows-specific changes.
guido masarotto
(for the R-core team)
Windows-specific changes to R
=============================
Lines with lty > 1 and many pieces were being drawn very slowly on
Windows 2000 (but not 98/ME). To work around this, such lines are
now drawn 5000 pieces at a time.
The dialog for the `Change dir' item now uses a standard folder
selection widget for its Browse button.
White backgrounds are now omitted for metafiles (as they are for
postscript, PDF and XFig plots), so white backgounds (the default)
appear to be transparent.
help.start() now updates the HTML search index (as well as the
packages index) when it is started up. link.html.help() works better
when R_LIBS omits the drive, and uses relative links for the main
library, so R installations can be relocated in the file system.
The background colour of the GUI preferences editor and the
select.list() popup is now taken from the Windows colour scheme.
Rcmd INSTALL now rejects invalid options for --docs (rather than
ignoring them), and checks for the R version in the DESCRIPTION file
exactly the same way as Rcmd check (so with fewer spurious messages).
Added support for building with the ATLAS optimized BLAS library: on a
PII this speeds up La.svd on a 500x500 matrix by about 30%, and the
multiplication of two 1000x1000 matrices by about 8x. See INSTALL.
The recommended compiler system has been changed, but that recommended
for rw1030 still works.
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From Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at Wed Jul 14 09:34:33 1999
From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch)
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:34:33 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CRAN Vienna shutdowns
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Hi,
du to construction work in our rooms and some hardware/software
upgrades the CRAN master site in Vienna will be down several times
within the next fortnight.
First shutdown will be this afternoon, when we relocate the server to
another room. Another shutdown will be during most of Sunday, when the
complete building will have no electricity at all.
Best,
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From zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at Wed Dec 19 21:41:07 2001
From: zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at (Achim Zeileis)
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:41:07 +0100
Subject: new versions of: lmtest, strucchange, ineq
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Dear R users,
there are new versions of the following packages on CRAN:
o lmtest 0.9-0
o strucchange 0.9-4
o ineq 0.2-1
Changes/fixes in "lmtest":
There have been several bug fixes and the interfaces to all functions
have been improved such that their use is much more flexible.
Furthermore we have added:
- p values for the Durbin-Watson test
- studentized version of the Breusch-Pagan test
- flexible specification of the alternative hypothesis of the RESET
test
- simulated p values for the Harrison-McCabe test
- data sets with examples
Changes/fixes in "strucchange":
Besides a few minor changes and improvements there is a new fixed
version of the function Fstats(), which provides also computation of F
statistics based on
heteroskedasticity-consistent covariance estimation.
Changes/fixes in "ineq":
The empirical and theoretical Lorenz curves have now their own classes
with
plot- and lines-method. A data set with examples has been added and a
few bugs were fixed.
>From the DESCRIPTION files:
Package: lmtest
Title: Testing Linear Regression Models
Version: 0.9-0
Date: 2001-12-01
Author: Torsten Hothorn <Torsten.Hothorn at rzmail.uni-erlangen.de>
Achim Zeileis <zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at>
Maintainer: Achim Zeileis <zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at>
Description: A collection of tests, data sets and examples
for testing the assumptions of linear regression models.
License: GPL
>From the DESCRIPTION:
Package: strucchange
Version: 0.9-4
Date: 2001-12-01
Title: Testing for Structural Change
Author: Achim Zeileis, Friedrich Leisch, Bruce Hansen,
Kurt Hornik, Christian Kleiber, Andrea Peters
Maintainer: Achim Zeileis <zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at>
Description: Testing on structural change in linear regression
relationships. It features tests/methods from the
generalized
fluctuation test framework as well as from the F test (Chow
test)
framework. This includes methods to fit, plot and test
fluctuation
processes (e.g. CUSUM, MOSUM, recursive/moving estimates)
and
F statistics, respectively. Furthermore it is possible to
monitor
incoming data online.
Depends: R (>= 1.3.0)
License: GPL
Package: ineq
Version: 0.2-1
Date: 2001-11-29
Title: Measuring inequality, concentration and poverty
Author: Achim Zeileis <zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at>
Maintainer: Achim Zeileis <zeileis at ci.tuwien.ac.at>
Description: Inequality, concentration and poverty measures
Lorenz curves (empirical and theoretical)
License: GPL
Seasonal greetings :-)
Achim
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From pd.mes at cbs.dk Fri Jun 2 17:07:49 2017
From: pd.mes at cbs.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 15:07:49 +0000
Subject: R 3.4.1 at end of June
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Just a quick note to say that we intend to have a patch release, probably on June 30, mainly to pick up a few balls that were dropped on the 3.4.0 release. Full schedule to appear later (just need a little time to actually set it up + checking that the date doesn't collide with schedules of other people).
- Peter Dalgaard
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Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
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From pd.mes at cbs.dk Thu Apr 10 12:07:38 2014
From: pd.mes at cbs.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:07:38 +0200
Subject: [R] R 3.1.0 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
(Resend with correct Subject field.)
The build system rolled up R-3.1.0.tar.gz (codename "Spring Dance") 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-3.1.0.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.
(There seems to be a minor mishap with the NEWS file not getting copied to CRAN. I'll attend to that shortly.)
For the R Core Team
Peter Dalgaard
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This is the relevant part of the NEWS file
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
consistent. If there is no coercion, all attributes (including
class) are copied from the input to the result: otherwise only
names, dims and dimnames are.
* colorRamp() and colorRampPalette() now allow non-opaque colours
and a ramp in opacity via the new argument alpha = TRUE.
(Suggested by Alberto Krone-Martins, but optionally as there are
existing uses which expect only RGB values.)
* grid.show.layout() and grid.show.viewport() get an optional vp.ex
argument.
* There is a new function find_gs_cmd() in the tools package to
locate a GhostScript executable. (This is an enhanced version of
a previously internal function there.)
* object.size() gains a format() method.
* There is a new family, "ArialMT", for the pdf() and postscript()
devices. This will only be rendered correctly on viewers which
have access to Monotype TrueType fonts (which are sometimes
requested by journals).
* The text and PDF news files, including NEWS and NEWS.2, have been
moved to the doc directory.
* combn(x, simplify = TRUE) now gives a factor result for factor
input x (previously user error). (Related to PR#15442.)
* Added utils::fileSnapshot() and utils::changedFiles() functions
to allow snapshots and comparison of directories of files.
* make.names(names, unique=TRUE) now tries to preserve existing
names. (Suggestion of PR#15452.)
* New functions cospi(x), sinpi(x), and tanpi(x), for more accurate
computation of cos(pi*x), etc, both in R and the C API. Using
these gains accuracy in some cases, e.g., inside lgamma() or
besselI(). (Suggested by Morten Welinder in PR#15529.)
* print.table(x, zero.print = ".") now also has an effect when x is
not integer-valued.
* There is more support to explore the system's idea of time-zone
names. Sys.timezone() tries to give the current system setting
by name (and succeeds at least on Linux, OS X, Solaris and
Windows), and OlsonNames() lists the names in the system's Olson
database. Sys.timezone(location = FALSE) gives the previous
behaviour.
* Platforms with a 64-bit time_t type are allowed to handle
conversions between the "POSIXct" and "POSIXlt" classes for
date-times outside the 32-bit range (before 1902 or after 2037):
the existing workarounds are used on other platforms. (Note that
time-zone information for post-2037 is speculative at best, and
the OS services are tested for known errors and so not used on OS
X.)
Currently time_t is usually long and hence 64-bit on Unix-alike
64-bit platforms: however it several cases the time-zone database
is 32-bit. On R for Windows it is 64-bit (for both architectures
as from this version).
* The "save.defaults" option can include a value for
compression_level. (Wish of PR#15579.)
* colSums() and friends now have support for arrays and data-frame
columns with 2^31 or more elements.
* as.factor() is faster when f is an unclassed integer vector (for
example, when called from tapply()).
* fft() now works with longer inputs, from the 12 million
previously supported up to 2 billion. (PR#15593)
* Complex svd() now uses LAPACK subroutine ZGESDD, the complex
analogue of the routine used for the real case.
* Sweave now outputs .tex files in UTF-8 if the input encoding is
declared to be UTF-8, regardless of the local encoding. The
UTF-8 encoding may now be declared using a LaTeX comment
containing the string %\SweaveUTF8 on a line by itself.
* file.copy() gains a copy.date argument.
* Printing of date-times will make use of the time-zone
abbreviation in use at the time, if known. For example, for
Paris pre-1940 this could be LMT, PMT, WET or WEST. To enable
this, the "POSIXlt" class has an optional component "zone"
recording the abbreviation for each element.
For platforms which support it, there is also a component
"gmtoff" recording the offset from GMT where known.
* (On Windows, by default on OS X and optionally elsewhere.) The
system C function strftime has been replaced by a more
comprehensive version with closer conformance to the POSIX 2008
standard.
* dnorm(x, log = FALSE) is more accurate (but somewhat slower) for
|x| > 5; as suggested in PR#15620.
* Some versions of the tiff() device have further compression
options.
* read.table(), readLines() and scan() have a new argument to
influence the treatment of embedded nuls.
* Avoid duplicating the right hand side values in complex
assignments when possible. This reduces copying of replacement
values in expressions such as Z$a <- a0 and ans[[i]] <- tmp: some
package code has relied on there being copies.
Also, a number of other changes to reduce copying of objects; all
contributed by or based on suggestions by Michael Lawrence.
* The fast argument of KalmanLike(), KalmanRun() and
KalmanForecast() has been replaced by update, which instead of
updating mod in place, optionally returns the updated model in an
attribute "mod" of the return value.
* arima() and makeARIMA() get a new optional argument SSinit,
allowing the choice of a different *s*tate *s*pace initialization
which has been observed to be more reliable close to
non-stationarity: see PR#14682.
* warning() has a new argument noBreaks., to simplify
post-processing of output with options(warn = 1).
* pushBack() gains an argument encoding, to support reading of
UTF-8 characters using scan(), read.table() and related functions
in a non-UTF-8 locale.
* all.equal.list() gets a new argument use.names which by default
labels differing components by names (if they match) rather than
by integer index. Saved R output in packages may need to be
updated.
* The methods for all.equal() and attr.all.equal() now have
argument check.attributes after ... so it cannot be partially nor
positionally matched (as it has been, unintentionally).
A side effect is that some previously undetected errors of
passing empty arguments (no object between commas) to all.equal()
are detected and reported.
There are explicit checks that check.attributes is logical,
tolerance is numeric and scale is NULL or numeric. This catches
some unintended positional matching.
The message for all.equal.numeric() reports a "scaled difference"
only for scale != 1.
* all.equal() now has a "POSIXt" method replacing the "POSIXct"
method.
* The "Date" and "POSIXt" methods of seq() allows by = "quarter"
for completeness (by = "3 months" always worked).
* file.path() removes any trailing separator on Windows, where they
are invalid (although sometimes accepted). This is intended to
enhance the portability of code written by those using POSIX file
systems (where a trailing / can be used to confine path matching
to directories).
* New function agrepl() which like grepl() returns a logical
vector.
* fifo() is now supported on Windows. (PR#15600)
* sort.list(method = "radix") now allows negative integers (wish of
PR#15644).
* Some functionality of print.ts() is now available in
.preformat.ts() for more modularity.
* mcparallel() gains an option detach = TRUE which allows execution
of code independently of the current session. It is based on a
new estranged = TRUE argument to mcfork() which forks child
processes such that they become independent of the parent
process.
* The pdf() device omits circles and text at extremely small sizes,
since some viewers were failing on such files.
* The rightmost break for the "months", "quarters" and "years"
cases of hist.POSIXlt() has been increased by a day. (Inter
alia, fixes PR#15717.)
* The handling of DF[i,] <- a where i is of length 0 is improved.
(Inter alia, fixes PR#15718.)
* hclust() gains a new method "ward.D2" which implements Ward's
method correctly. The previous "ward" method is "ward.D" now,
with the old name still working. Thanks to research and
proposals by Pierre Legendre.
* The sunspot.month dataset has been amended and updated from the
official source, whereas the sunspots and sunspot.year datasets
will remain immutable. The documentation and source links have
been updated correspondingly.
* The summary() method for "lm" fits warns if the fit is
essentially perfect, as most of the summary may be computed
inaccurately (and with platform-dependent values).
Programmers who use summary() in order to extract just a
component which will be reliable (e.g. $cov.unscaled) should wrap
their calls in suppressWarnings().
INSTALLATION and INCLUDED SOFTWARE:
* The included version of LAPACK has been updated to 3.5.0.
* There is some support for parallel testing of an installation, by
setting TEST_MC_CORES to an integer greater than one to indicate
the maximum number of cores to be used in parallel. (It is worth
specifying at least 8 cores if available.) Most of these require
a make program (such as GNU make and dmake) which supports the
$MAKE -j nproc syntax.
Except on Windows: the tests of standard package examples in make
check are done in parallel. This also applies to running
tools::testInstalledPackages().
The more time-consuming regression tests are done in parallel.
The package checks in make check-devel and make check-recommended
are done in parallel.
* More of make check will work if recommended packages are not
installed: but recommended packages remain needed for thorough
checking of an R build.
* The version of tzcode included in src/extra/tzone has been
updated. (Formerly used only on Windows.)
* The included (64-bit) time-zone conversion code and Olson
time-zone database can be used instead of the system version: use
configure option --with-internal-tzcode. This is the default on
Windows and OS X. (Note that this does not currently work if a
non-default rsharedir configure variable is used.)
(It might be necessary to set environment variable TZ on OSes
where this is not already set, although the system timezone is
deduced correctly on at least Linux, OS X and Windows.)
This option also switches to the version of strftime included in
directory src/extra/tzone.
* configure now tests for a C++11-compliant compiler by testing
some basic features. This by default tries flags for the
compiler specified by CXX, but an alternative compiler, options
and standard can be specified by variables CXX1X, CXX1XFLAGS and
CXX1XSTD (e.g. -std=gnu++11).
* R can now optionally be compiled to use reference counting
instead of the NAMED mechanism by defining SWITCH_TO_REFCNT in
Rinternals.h. This may become the default in the future.
* There is a new option --use-system-tre to use a suitable system
tre library: at present this means a version from their git
repository, after corrections. (Wish of PR#15660.)
PACKAGE INSTALLATION:
* The CRANextra repository is no longer a default repository on
Windows: all the binary versions of packages from CRAN are now on
CRAN, although CRANextra contains packages from Omegahat and
elsewhere used by CRAN packages.
* Only vignettes sources in directory vignettes are considered to
be vignettes and hence indexed as such.
* In the DESCRIPTION file,
License: X11
is no longer recognized as valid. Use MIT or BSD_2_clause
instead, both of which need + file LICENSE.
* For consistency, entries in .Rinstignore are now matched
case-insensitively on all platforms.
* Help for S4 methods with very long signatures now tries harder to
split the description in the Usage field to no more than 80
characters per line (some packages had over 120 characters).
* R CMD INSTALL --build (not Windows) now defaults to the internal
tar() unless R_INSTALL_TAR is set.
* There is support for compiling C++11 code in packages on suitable
platforms: see 'Writing R Extensions'.
* Fake installs now install the contents of directory inst: some
packages use this to install e.g. C++ headers for use by other
packages that are independent of the package itself. Option
--no-inst can be used to get the previous behaviour.
DEBUGGING:
* The behaviour of the code browser has been made more consistent,
in part following the suggestions in PR#14985.
* Calls to browser() are now consistent with calls to the browser
triggered by debug(), in that Enter will default to n rather than
c.
* A new browser command s has been added, to "step into" function
calls.
* A new browser command f has been added, to "finish" the current
loop or function.
* Within the browser, the command help will display a short list of
available commands.
UTILITIES:
* Only vignettes sources in directory vignettes are considered to
be vignettes by R CMD check. That has been the preferred
location since R 2.14.0 and is now obligatory.
* For consistency, R CMD build now matches entries in .Rbuildignore
and vignettes/.install_extras case-insensitively on all platforms
(not just on Windows).
* checkFF() (called by R CMD check by default) can optionally check
foreign function calls for consistency with the registered type
and argument count. This is the default for R CMD check
--as-cran or can be enabled by setting environment variable
_R_CHECK_FF_CALLS_ to registration (but is in any case suppressed
by --install=no). Because this checks calls in which .NAME is an
R object and not just a literal character string, some other
problems are detected for such calls.
Functions suppressForeignCheck() and dontCheck() have been added
to allow package authors to suppress false positive reports.
* R CMD check --as-cran warns about a false value of the
DESCRIPTION field BuildVignettes for Open Source packages, and
ignores it. (An Open Source package needs to have complete
sources for its vignettes which should be usable on a suitably
well-equipped system).
* R CMD check --no-rebuild-vignettes is defunct:
R CMD check --no-build-vignettes has been preferred since R
3.0.0.
* R CMD build --no-vignettes is defunct:
R CMD build --no-build-vignettes has been preferred since R
3.0.0.
* R CMD Sweave and R CMD Stangle now process both Sweave and
non-Sweave vignettes. The tools::buildVignette() function has
been added to do the same tasks from within R.
* The flags returned by R CMD config --ldflags and (where
installed) pkg-config --libs libR are now those needed to link a
front-end against the (shared or static) R library.
* Sweave.sty has a new option [inconsolata].
* R CMD check customizations such as _R_CHECK_DEPENDS_ONLY_ make
available packages only in LinkingTo only for installation, and
not for loading/runtime tests.
* tools::checkFF() reports on .C and .Fortran calls with DUP =
FALSE if argument check_DUP is true. This is selected by R CMD
check by default.
* R CMD check --use-gct can be tuned to garbage-collect less
frequently using gctorture2() _via_ the setting of environment
variable _R_CHECK_GCT_N_.
* Where supported, tools::texi2dvi() limits the number of passes
tried to 20.
C-LEVEL FACILITIES:
* (Windows only) A function R_WaitEvent() has been added (with
declaration in headerR.h) to block execution until the next event
is received by R.
* Remapping in the Rmath.h header can be suppressed by defining
R_NO_REMAP_RMATH.
* The remapping of rround() in header Rmath.h has been removed: use
fround() instead.
* ftrunc() in header Rmath.h is now a wrapper for the C99 function
trunc(), which might as well be used in C code: ftrunc() is still
needed for portable C++ code.
* The never-documented remapping of prec() to fprec() in header
Rmath.h has been removed.
* The included LAPACK subset now contains ZGESDD and ZGELSD.
* The function LENGTH() now checks that it is only applied to
vector arguments. However, in packages length() should be used.
(In R itself LENGTH() is a macro without the function overhead of
length().)
* Calls to SET_VECTOR_ELT() and SET_STRING_ELT() are now checked
for indices which are in-range: several packages were writing one
element beyond the allocated length.
* allocVector3 has been added which allows custom allocators to be
used for individual vector allocations.
DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT:
* chol(pivot = TRUE, LINPACK = TRUE) is defunct.
Arguments EISPACK for eigen() and LINPACK for chol(), chol2inv(),
solve() and svd() are ignored: LAPACK is always used.
* .find.package() and .path.package() are defunct: only the
versions without the initial dot introduced in R 2.13.0 have ever
been in the API.
* Partial matching when using the $ operator _on data frames_ now
throws a warning and may become defunct in the future. If partial
matching is intended, replace foo$bar by foo[["bar", exact =
FALSE]].
* The long-deprecated use of \synopsis in the Usage section of .Rd
files has been removed: such sections are now ignored (with a
warning).
* package.skeleton()'s deprecated argument namespace has been
removed.
* Many methods are no longer exported by package stats. They are
all registered on their generic, which should be called rather
than calling a method directly.
* Functions readNEWS() and checkNEWS() in package tools are
defunct.
* download.file(method = "lynx") is deprecated.
* .C(DUP = FALSE) and .Fortran(DUP = FALSE) are now deprecated, and
may be disabled in future versions of R. As their help has long
said, .Call() is much preferred.
R CMD check notes such usages (by default).
* The workaround of setting R_OSX_VALGRIND has been removed: it is
not needed in current valgrind.
BUG FIXES:
* Calling lm.wfit() with no non-zero weights gave an array-overrun
in the Fortran code and a not very sensible answer. It is now
special-cased with a simpler answer (no qr component).
* Error messages involving non-syntactic names (e.g. as produced by
`\r` when that object does not exist) now encode the control
characters. (Reported by Hadley Wickham.)
* getGraphicsEvent() caused 100% usage of one CPU in Windows.
(PR#15500)
* nls() with no start argument may now work inside another function
(scoping issue).
* pbeta() and similar work better for very large (billions) ncp.
* Where time zones have changed abbreviations over the years, the
software tries to more consistently use the abbreviation
appropriate to the time or if that is unknown, the current
abbreviation. On some platforms where the C function localtime
changed the tzname variables the reported abbreviation could have
been that of the last time converted.
* all.equal(list(1), identity) now works.
* Bug fix for pushing viewports in grid (reported by JJ Allaire and
Kevin Ushey).
NOTE for anyone poking around within the graphics engine display
list (despite the warnings not to) that this changes what is
recorded by grid on the graphics engine display list.
* Extra checks have been added for unit resolution and conversion
in grid, to catch instances of division-by-zero. This may
introduce error messages in existing code and/or produce a
different result in existing code (but only where a non-finite
location or dimension may now become zero).
* Some bugs in TRE have been corrected by updating from the git
repository. This allows R to be installed on some platforms for
which this was a blocker (PR#15087 suggests Linux on ARM and
HP-UX).
* ? applied to a call to an S4 generic failed in several cases.
(PR#15680)
which this was a blocker (PR#15087 suggests Linux on ARM and
HP-UX).
* ? applied to a call to an S4 generic failed in several cases.
(PR#15680)
* The implicit S4 generics for primitives with ... in their
argument list were incorrect. (PR#15690)
* Bug fixes to methods::callGeneric(). (PR#15691)
* The bug fix to aggregrate() in PR#15004 introduced a new bug in
the case of no grouping variables. (PR#15699)
* In rare cases printing deeply nested lists overran a buffer by
one byte and on a few platforms segfaulted. (PR#15679)
* The dendrogram method of as.dendrogram() was hidden accidentally,
(PR#15703), and order.dendrogram(d) gave too much for a leaf d.
(PR#15702)
* R would try to kill processes on exit that have pids ever used by
a child process spawned by mcparallel even though the current
process with that pid was not actually its child.
* cophenetic() applied to a "dendrogram" object sometimes
incorrectly returned a "Labels" attribute with dimensions.
(PR#15706)
* printCoefmat() called from quite a few print() methods now obeys
small getOption("width") settings, line wrapping the "signif.
codes" legend appropriately. (PR#15708)
* model.matrix() assumed that the stored dimnames for a matrix was
NULL or length 2, but length 1 occurred.
* The clipping region for a device was sometimes used in base
graphics before it was set.
--
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Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
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From guido at hal.stat.unipd.it Wed Aug 16 14:23:06 2000
From: guido at hal.stat.unipd.it (Guido Masarotto)
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:23:06 +0100
Subject: R 1.1.1 for Windows (NT/9x/2000)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Windows binaries at CRAN (bin/windows/Windows-NT/base) have been updated
to R-1.1.1. See below for a list of Windows-specific changes.
guido masarotto
(for the R-core team)
Windows-specific changes to R
=============================
New file README.Rterm providing basic documentation on Rterm.exe.
undoc() is now available under Windows.
There is a new script R_HOME/bin/build.sh, a version of R CMD build.
You will need R_HOME set as an environment variable to use it, and you
will need the full set of tools from tools.zip (see readme.packages)
in your path.
The batch wrappers to Perl files Rdconv.bat Rdindex.bat Rd2txt.bat
Sd2Rd.bat have been revised to work on more Perl/OS versions.
Setting cell widths from the menu in the data editor now works reliably.
Having an empty line at the beginning of .Rhistory no longer breaks the
history-recall mechanism in Rgui.
Characters using the AltGr key now work in interactive use of Rterm.
(AltGr used to work like Alt.)
Ctrl+V now works as described in a pager (pasting to the console).
Other versions of Tcl/Tk may be used by setting TCL_VERSION in
MkRules (but only 8.31 has been tested).
A file Makevars.win in the src directory of a package will be used in
preference to a file Makevars.
The Makefiles for packages now allow C++ code (with extension .cc or
.cpp or .C) in the src directory.
If you use a private library and HTML help, you need to copy R.css
from rw1011\library to each private library directory.
Function win.version() should give slightly more information (the
latest service pack number x.y) on Windows 2000.
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Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 10:41:36 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: R 1.5.0 RPMs for Red Hat Linux 7.2/Intel
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From: pd.mes at cbs.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 12:04:52 +0200
Subject: R 3.0.0 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
The build system rolled up R-3.0.0.tar.gz (codename "Masked Marvel") 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-3.0.0.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:
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This is the relevant part of the NEWS file
CHANGES IN R 3.0.0:
SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES:
o Packages need to be (re-)installed under this version (3.0.0) of
R.
o There is a subtle change in behaviour for numeric index values
2^31 and larger. These never used to be legitimate and so were
treated as NA, sometimes with a warning. They are now legal for
long vectors so there is no longer a warning, and x[2^31] <- y
will now extend the vector on a 64-bit platform and give an error
on a 32-bit one.
o It is now possible for 64-bit builds to allocate amounts of
memory limited only by the OS. It may be wise to use OS
facilities (e.g. ulimit in a bash shell, limit in csh), to set
limits on overall memory consumption of an R process,
particularly in a multi-user environment. A number of packages
need a limit of at least 4GB of virtual memory to load.
64-bit Windows builds of R are by default limited in memory usage
to the amount of RAM installed: this limit can be changed by
command-line option --max-mem-size or setting environment
variable R_MAX_MEM_SIZE.
o Negative numbers for colours are consistently an error:
previously they were sometimes taken as transparent, sometimes
mapped into the current palette and sometimes an error.
NEW FEATURES:
o identical() has a new argument, ignore.environment, used when
comparing functions (with default FALSE as before).
o There is a new option, options(CBoundsCheck=), which controls how
.C() and .Fortran() pass arguments to compiled code. If true
(which can be enabled by setting the environment variable
R_C_BOUNDS_CHECK to yes), raw, integer, double and complex
arguments are always copied, and checked for writing off either
end of the array on return from the compiled code (when a second
copy is made). This also checks individual elements of character
vectors passed to .C().
This is not intended for routine use, but can be very helpful in
finding segfaults in package code.
o In layout(), the limits on the grid size have been raised
(again).
o New simple provideDimnames() utility function.
o Where methods for length() return a double value which is
representable as an integer (as often happens for package
Matrix), this is converted to an integer.
o Matrix indexing of dataframes by two-column numeric indices is
now supported for replacement as well as extraction.
o setNames() now has a default for its object argument, useful for
a character result.
o StructTS() has a revised additive constant in the loglik
component of the result: the previous definition is returned as
the loglik0 component. However, the help page has always warned
of a lack of comparability of log-likelihoods for non-stationary
models. (Suggested by Jouni Helske.)
o The logic in aggregate.formula() has been revised. It is now
possible to use a formula stored in a variable; previously, it
had to be given explicitly in the function call.
o install.packages() has a new argument quiet to reduce the amount
of output shown.
o Setting an element of the graphics argument lwd to a negative or
infinite value is now an error. Lines corresponding to elements
with values NA or NaN are silently omitted.
Previously the behaviour was device-dependent.
o Setting graphical parameters cex, col, lty, lwd and pch in par()
now requires a length-one argument. Previously some silently
took the first element of a longer vector, but not always when
documented to do so.
o Sys.which() when used with inputs which would be unsafe in a
shell (e.g. absolute paths containing spaces) now uses
appropriate quoting.
o as.tclObj() has been extended to handle raw vectors. Previously,
it only worked in the other direction. (Contributed by Charlie
Friedemann, PR#14939.)
o New functions cite() and citeNatbib() have been added, to allow
generation of in-text citations from "bibentry" objects. A
cite() function may be added to bibstyle() environments.
o A sort() method has been added for "bibentry" objects.
o The bibstyle() function now defaults to setting the default
bibliography style. The getBibstyle() function has been added to
report the name of the current default style.
o scatter.smooth() now has an argument lpars to pass arguments to
lines().
o pairs() has a new log argument, to allow some or all variables to
be plotted on logarithmic scale. (In part, wish of PR#14919.)
o split() gains a sep argument.
o termplot() does a better job when given a model with interactions
(and no longer attempts to plot interaction terms).
o The parser now incorporates code from Romain Francois' parser
package, to support more detailed computation on the code, such
as syntax highlighting, comment-based documentation, etc.
Functions getParseData() and getParseText() access the data.
o There is a new function rep_len() analogous to rep.int() for when
speed is required (and names are not).
o The undocumented use rep(NULL, length.out = n) for n > 0 (which
returns NULL) now gives a warning.
o demo() gains an encoding argument for those packages with
non-ASCII demos: it defaults to the package encoding where there
is one.
o strwrap() converts inputs with a marked encoding to the current
locale: previously it made some attempt to pass through as bytes
inputs invalid in the current locale.
o Specifying both rate and scale to [dpqr]gamma is a warning (if
they are essentially the same value) or an error.
o merge() works in more cases where the data frames include
matrices. (Wish of PR#14974.)
o optimize() and uniroot() no longer use a shared parameter object
across calls. (nlm(), nlminb() and optim() with numerical
derivatives still do, as documented.)
o The all.equal() method for date-times is now documented: times
are regarded as equal (by default) if they differ by up to 1
msec.
o duplicated() and unique() gain a nmax argument which can be used
to make them much more efficient when it is known that there are
only a small number of unique entries. This is done
automatically for factors.
o Functions rbinom(), rgeom(), rhyper(), rpois(), rnbinom(),
rsignrank() and rwilcox() now return integer (not double)
vectors. This halves the storage requirements for large
simulations.
o sort(), sort.int() and sort.list() now use radix sorting for
factors of less than 100,000 levels when method is not supplied.
So does order() if called with a single factor, unless na.last =
NA.
o diag() as used to generate a diagonal matrix has been re-written
in C for speed and less memory usage. It now forces the result
to be numeric in the case diag(x) since it is said to have 'zero
off-diagonal entries'.
o backsolve() (and forwardsolve()) are now internal functions, for
speed and support for large matrices.
o More matrix algebra functions (e.g. chol() and solve()) accept
logical matrices (and coerce to numeric).
o sample.int() has some support for n >= 2^31: see its help for the
limitations.
A different algorithm is used for (n, size, replace = FALSE, prob
= NULL) for n > 1e7 and size <= n/2. This is much faster and
uses less memory, but does give different results.
o approxfun() and splinefun() now return a wrapper to an internal
function in the stats namespace rather than a .C() or .Call()
call. This is more likely to work if the function is saved and
used in a different session.
o The functions .C(), .Call(), .External() and .Fortran() now give
an error (rather than a warning) if called with a named first
argument.
o Sweave() by default now reports the locations in the source
file(s) of each chunk.
o clearPushBack() is now a documented interface to a long-existing
internal call.
o aspell() gains filters for R code, Debian Control Format and
message catalog files, and support for R level dictionaries. In
addition, package utils now provides functions
aspell_package_R_files() and aspell_package_C_files() for spell
checking R and C level message strings in packages.
o bibentry() gains some support for "incomplete" entries with a
crossref field.
o gray() and gray.colors() finally allow alpha to be specified.
o monthplot() gains parameters to control the look of the reference
lines. (Suggestion of Ian McLeod.)
o Added support for new %~% relation ("is distributed as") in
plotmath.
o domain = NA is accepted by gettext() and ngettext(), analogously
to stop() etc.
o termplot() gains a new argument plot = FALSE which returns
information to allow the plots to be modified for use as part of
other plots, but does not plot them. (Contributed by Terry
Therneau, PR#15076.)
o quartz.save(), formerly an undocumented part of R.app, is now
available to copy a device to a quartz() device. dev.copy2pdf()
optionally does this for PDF output: quartz.save() defaults to
PNG.
o The default method of pairs() now allows text.panel = NULL and
the use of <foo>.panel = NULL is now documented.
o setRefClass() and getRefClass() now return class generator
functions, similar to setClass(), but still with the reference
fields and methods as before (suggestion of Romain Francois).
o New functions bitwNot(), bitwAnd(), bitwOr() and bitwXor(), using
the internal interfaces previously used for classes "octmode" and
"hexmode".
Also bitwShiftL() and bitwShiftR() for shifting bits in elements
of integer vectors.
o New option "deparse.cutoff" to control the deparsing of language
objects such as calls and formulae when printing. (Suggested by
a comment of Sarah Goslee.)
o colors() gains an argument distinct.
o New demo(colors) and demo(hclColors), with utility functions.
o list.files() (aka dir()) gains a new optional argument no.. which
allows to exclude "." and ".." from listings.
o Multiple time series are also of class "matrix"; consequently,
head(), e.g., is more useful.
o encodeString() preserves UTF-8 marked encodings. Thus if factor
levels are marked as UTF-8 an attempt is made to print them in
UTF-8 in RGui on Windows.
o readLines() and scan() (and hence read.table()) in a UTF-8 locale
now discard a UTF-8 byte-order-mark (BOM). Such BOMs are allowed
but not recommended by the Unicode Standard: however Microsoft
applications can produce them and so they are sometimes found on
websites.
The encoding name "UTF-8-BOM" for a connection will ensure that a
UTF-8 BOM is discarded.
o mapply(FUN, a1, ..) now also works when a1 (or a further such
argument) needs a length() method (which the documented arguments
never do). (Requested by Herv'e Pag`es; with a patch.)
o .onDetach() is supported as an alternative to .Last.lib. Unlike
.Last.lib, this does not need to be exported from the package's
namespace.
o The srcfile argument to parse() may now be a character string, to
be used in error messages.
o The format() method for ftable objects gains a method argument,
propagated to write.ftable() and print(), allowing more compact
output, notably for LaTeX formatting, thanks to Marius Hofert.
o The utils::process.events() function has been added to trigger
immediate event handling.
o Sys.which() now returns NA (not "") for NA inputs (related to
PR#15147).
o The print() method for class "htest" gives fewer trailing spaces
(wish of PR#15124).
Also print output from HoltWinters(), nls() and others.
o loadNamespace() allows a version specification to be given, and
this is used to check version specifications given in the Imports
field when a namespace is loaded.
o setClass() has a new argument, slots, clearer and less ambiguous
than representation. It is recommended for future code, but
should be back-compatible. At the same time, the allowed slot
specification is slightly more general. See the documentation
for details.
o mget() now has a default for envir (the frame from which it is
called), for consistency with get() and assign().
o close() now returns an integer status where available, invisibly.
(Wish of PR#15088.)
o The internal method of tar() can now store paths too long for the
ustar format, using the (widely supported) GNU extension. It can
also store long link names, but these are much less widely
supported. There is support for larger files, up to the ustar
limit of 8GB.
o Local reference classes have been added to package methods.
These are a technique for avoiding unneeded copying of large
components of objects while retaining standard R functional
behavior. See ?LocalReferenceClasses.
o untar() has a new argument restore_times which if false (not the
default) discards the times in the tarball. This is useful if
they are incorrect (some tarballs submitted to CRAN have times in
a local timezone or many years in the past even though the
standard required them to be in UTC).
o replayplot() cannot (and will not attempt to) replay plots
recorded under R < 3.0.0. It may crash the R session if an
attempt is made to replay plots created in a different build of R
>= 3.0.0.
o Palette changes get recorded on the display list, so replaying
plots (including when resizing screen devices and using
dev.copy()) will work better when the palette is changed during a
plot.
o chol(pivot = TRUE) now defaults to LAPACK, not LINPACK.
o The parse() function has a new parameter keep.source, which
defaults to options("keep.source").
o Profiling via Rprof() now optionally records information at the
statement level, not just the function level.
o The Rprof() function now quotes function names in in its output
file on Windows, to be consistent with the quoting in Unix.
o Profiling via Rprof() now optionally records information about
time spent in GC.
o The HTML help page for a package now displays non-vignette
documentation files in a more accessible format.
o To support options(stringsAsFactors = FALSE), model.frame(),
model.matrix() and replications() now automatically convert
character vectors to factors without a warning.
o The print method for objects of class "table" now detects tables
with 0-extents and prints the results as, e.g., < table of extent
0 x 1 x 2 >. (Wish of PR#15198.)
o Deparsing involving calls to anonymous functions and has been
made closer to reversible by the addition of extra parentheses.
o The function utils::packageName() has been added as a lightweight
version of methods::getPackageName().
o find.package(lib.loc = NULL) now treats loaded namespaces
preferentially in the same way as attached packages have been for
a long time.
o In Windows, the Change Directory dialog now defaults to the
current working directory, rather than to the last directory
chosen in that dialog.
o available.packages() gains a "license/restricts_use" filter which
retains only packages for which installation can proceed solely
based on packages which are guaranteed not to restrict use.
o New check_packages_in_dir() function in package tools for
conveniently checking source packages along with their reverse
dependencies.
o R's completion mechanism has been improved to handle help
requests (starting with a question mark). In particular, help
prefixes are now supported, as well as quoted help topics. To
support this, completion inside quotes are now handled by R by
default on all platforms.
o The memory manager now allows the strategy used to balance
garbage collection and memory growth to be controlled by setting
the environment variable R_GC_MEM_GROW. See ?Memory for more
details.
o ('For experts only', as the introductory manual says.) The use
of environment variables R_NSIZE and R_VSIZE to control the
initial (= minimum) garbage collection trigger for number of cons
cels and size of heap has been restored: they can be overridden
by the command-line options --min-nsize and --min-vsize; see
?Memory.
o On Windows, the device name for bitmap devices as reported by
.Device and .Devices no longer includes the file name. This is
for consistency with other platforms and was requested by the
lattice maintainer.
win.metafile() still uses the file name: the exact form is used
by package tkrplot.
o set.seed(NULL) re-initializes .Random.seed as done at the
beginning of the session if not already set. (Suggestion of Bill
Dunlap.)
o The breaks argument in hist.default() can now be a function that
returns the breakpoints to be used (previously it could only
return the suggested number of breakpoints).
o File share/licenses/licenses.db has some clarifications,
especially as to which variants of 'BSD' and 'MIT' is intended
and how to apply them to packages. The problematic licence
'Artistic-1.0' has been removed.
LONG VECTORS:
This section applies only to 64-bit platforms.
o There is support for vectors longer than 2^31 - 1 elements. This
applies to raw, logical, integer, double, complex and character
vectors, as well as lists. (Elements of character vectors remain
limited to 2^31 - 1 bytes.)
o Most operations which can sensibly be done with long vectors
work: others may return the error 'long vectors not supported
yet'. Most of these are because they explicitly work with
integer indices (e.g. anyDuplicated() and match()) or because
other limits (e.g. of character strings or matrix dimensions)
would be exceeded or the operations would be extremely slow.
o length() returns a double for long vectors, and lengths can be
set to 2^31 or more by the replacement function with a double
value.
o Most aspects of indexing are available. Generally double-valued
indices can be used to access elements beyond 2^31 - 1.
o There is some support for matrices and arrays with each dimension
less than 2^31 but total number of elements more than that. Only
some aspects of matrix algebra work for such matrices, often
taking a very long time. In other cases the underlying Fortran
code has an unstated restriction (as was found for complex
svd()).
o dist() can produce dissimilarity objects for more than 65536 rows
(but for example hclust() cannot process such objects).
o serialize() to a raw vector is unlimited in size (except by
resources).
o The C-level function R_alloc can now allocate 2^35 or more bytes.
o agrep() and grep() will return double vectors of indices for long
vector inputs.
o Many calls to .C() have been replaced by .Call() to allow long
vectors to be supported (now or in the future). Regrettably
several packages had copied the non-API .C() calls and so failed.
o .C() and .Fortran() do not accept long vector inputs. This is a
precaution as it is very unlikely that existing code will have
been written to handle long vectors (and the R wrappers often
assume that length(x) is an integer).
o Most of the methods for sort() work for long vectors.
rank(), sort.list() and order() support long vectors (slowly
except for radix sorting).
o sample() can do uniform sampling from a long vector.
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS:
o More use has been made of R objects representing registered entry
points, which is more efficient as the address is provided by the
loader once only when the package is loaded.
This has been done for packages base, methods, splines and tcltk:
it was already in place for the other standard packages.
Since these entry points are always accessed by the R entry
points they do not need to be in the load table which can be
substantially smaller and hence searched faster. This does mean
that .C / .Fortran / .Call calls copied from earlier versions of
R may no longer work - but they were never part of the API.
o Many .Call() calls in package base have been migrated to
.Internal() calls.
o solve() makes fewer copies, especially when b is a vector rather
than a matrix.
o eigen() makes fewer copies if the input has dimnames.
o Most of the linear algebra functions make fewer copies when the
input(s) are not double (e.g. integer or logical).
o A foreign function call (.C() etc) in a package without a PACKAGE
argument will only look in the first DLL specified in the
NAMESPACE file of the package rather than searching all loaded
DLLs. A few packages needed PACKAGE arguments added.
o The @<- operator is now implemented as a primitive, which should
reduce some copying of objects when used. Note that the operator
object must now be in package base: do not try to import it
explicitly from package methods.
PACKAGE INSTALLATION:
o The transitional support for installing packages without
namespaces (required since R 2.14.0) has been removed. R CMD
build will still add a namespace, but a .First.lib() function
will need to be converted.
R CMD INSTALL no longer adds a namespace (so installation will
fail), and a .First.lib() function in a package will be ignored
(with an installation warning for now).
As an exception, packages without a R directory and no NAMESPACE
file can still be installed.
o Packages can specify in their DESCRIPTION file a line like
Biarch: yes
to be installed on Windows with --force-biarch.
o Package vignettes can now be processed by other engines besides
Sweave; see 'Writing R Extensions' and the tools::vignetteEngine
help topic for details.
o The *.R tangled source code for vignettes is now included in
tarballs when R CMD build is used to produce them. In R 3.0.0,
*.R files not in the sources will be produced at install time,
but eventually this will be dropped.
o The package type "mac.binary" now looks in a path in the
repository without any Mac subtype (which used to be universal or
leopard): it looks in bin/macosx/contrib/3.0 rather than
bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.15). This is the type used for the
CRAN binary distribution for OS X as from R 3.0.0.
o File etc/Makeconf makes more use of the macros $(CC), $(CXX),
$(F77) and $(FC), so the compiler in use can be changed by
setting just these (and if necessary the corresponding flags and
FLIBS) in file ~/.R/Makevars.
This is convenient for those working with binary distributions of
R, e.g. on OS X.
UTILITIES:
o R CMD check now gives a warning rather than a note if it finds
calls to abort, assert or exit in compiled code, and has been
able to find the .o file in which the calls occur.
Such calls can terminate the R process which loads the package.
o The location of the build and check environment files can now be
specified by the environment variables R_BUILD_ENVIRON and
R_CHECK_ENVIRON, respectively.
o R CMD Sweave gains a --compact option to control possibly
reducing the size of the PDF file it creates when --pdf is given.
o R CMD build now omits Eclipse's .metadata directories, and R CMD
check warns if it finds them.
o R CMD check now does some checks on functions defined within
reference classes, including of .Call() etc calls.
o R CMD check --as-cran notes assignments to the global
environment, calls to data() which load into the global
environment, and calls to attach().
o R CMD build by default uses the internal method of tar() to
prepare the tarball. This is more likely to produce a tarball
compatible with R CMD INSTALL and R CMD check: an external tar
program, including options, can be specified _via_ the
environment variable R_BUILD_TAR.
o tools::massageExamples() is better protected against packages
which re-define base functions such as cat() and get() and so can
cause R CMD check to fail when checking examples.
o R CMD javareconf has been enhanced to be more similar to the code
used by configure.
There is now a test that a JNI program can be compiled (like
configure did) and only working settings are used.
It makes use of custom settings from configuration recorded in
etc/javaconf.
o The --no-vignettes argument of R CMD build has been renamed to
the more accurate --no-build-vignettes: its action has always
been to (re)build vignettes and never omitted them.
R CMD check accepts --no-build-vignettes as a preferred synonym
for --no-rebuild-vignettes.
DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT:
o The ENCODING argument to .C() is defunct. Use iconv() instead.
o The .Internal(eval.with.vis) non-API function has been removed.
o Support for the converters for use with .C() has been removed,
including the oft misused non-API header R_ext/RConverters.h.
o The previously deprecated uses of array() with a 0-length dim
argument and tapply() with a 0-length INDEX list are now errors.
o Translation packages are defunct.
o Calling rep() or rep.int() on a pairlist or other non-vector
object is now an error.
o Several non-API entry points have been transferred to packages
(e.g. R_zeroin2) or replaced by different non-API entry points
(e.g. R_tabulate).
o The 'internal' graphics device invoked by
.Call("R_GD_nullDevice", package = "grDevices") has been removed:
use pdf(file = NULL) instead.
o The .Fortran() entry point "dqrls" which has not been used by R
since version 2.15.1 is no longer available.
o Functions traceOn() and traceOff() in package methods are now
defunct.
o Function CRAN.packages() is finally defunct.
o Use of col2rgb(0) is defunct: use par("bg") or NA instead.
o The long-defunct functions Rd_parse(), anovalist.lm(),
categpry(), clearNames(), gammaCody(), glm.fit.null(),
lm.fit.null(), lm.wfit.null(), manglePackageNames(),
mauchley.test(), package.contents(), print.coefmat(),
reshapeLong(), reshapeWide(), tkclose(), tkcmd(), tkfile.dir(),
tkfile.tail(), tkopen(), tkputs(), tkread(), trySilent() and
zip.file.extract() have been removed entirely (but are still
documented in the help system).
o The unused dataPath argument to attachNamespace() has been
removed.
o grid.prompt() has been removed: use devAskNewPage() instead.
o The long-deprecated intensities component is no longer returned
by hist().
o mean() for data frames and sd() for data frames and matrices are
defunct.
o chol(pivot = FALSE, LINPACK = TRUE), ch2inv(LINPACK = TRUE),
eigen(EISPACK = TRUE), solve(LINPACK = TRUE) and svd(LINPACK =
TRUE) are defunct: LAPACK will be used, with a warning.
o The keep.source argument to library() and require() is defunct.
This option needs to be set at install time.
o Documentation for real(), as.real() and is.real() has been moved
to 'defunct' and the functions removed.
o The maxRasters argument of pdf() (unused since R 2.14.0) has been
removed.
o The unused fontsmooth argument has been removed from the quartz()
device.
o All the (non-API) EISPACK entry points in R have been removed.
o chol(pivot = TRUE, LINPACK = TRUE) is deprecated.
o The long-deprecated use of \synopsis in the Usage section of .Rd
files will be removed in R 3.1.0.
o .find.package() and .path.package() are deprecated: only the
public versions without the dot have ever been in the API.
o In a package's DESCRIPTION file,
License: X11
is deprecated, since it includes 'Copyright (C) 1996 X
Consortium' which cannot be appropriate for a current R package.
Use 'MIT' or 'BSD_2_clause' instead.
CODE MIGRATION:
o The C code underlying base graphics has been migrated to the
graphics package (and hence no longer uses .Internal() calls).
o Most of the .Internal() calls used in the stats package have been
migrated to C code in that package.
This means that a number of .Internal() calls which have been
used by packages no longer exist, including .Internal(cor)
.Internal(cov), .Internal(optimhess) and
.Internal(update.formula).
o Some .External() calls to the base package (really to the R
executable or shared library) have been moved to more appropriate
packages. Packages should not have been using such calls, but
some did (mainly those used by integrate()).
PACKAGE parallel:
o There is a new function mcaffinity() which allows getting or
setting the CPU affinity mask for the current R process on
systems that supports this (currently only Linux has been tested
successfully). It has no effect on systems which do not support
process affinity. Users are not expected to use this function
directly (with the exception of fixing libraries that break
affinity settings like OpenBLAS) - the function is rather
intended to support affinity control in high-level parallel
functions. In the future, R may supplement lack of affinity
control in the OS by its own bookkeeping via mcaffinity() related
to processes and threads it spawns.
o mcparallel() has a new argument mc.affinity which attempts to set
the affinity of the child process according to the specification
contained therein.
o The port used by socket clusters is chosen randomly: this should
help to avoid clashes observed when two users of a multi-user
machine try to create a cluster at the same time. To reproduce
the previous behaviour set environment variable R_PARALLEL_PORT
to 10187.
C-LEVEL FACILITIES:
o There has been some minor re-organization of the non-API header
files. In particular, Rinternals.h no longer includes the
non-API header R_exts/PrtUtil.h, and that no longer includes
R_exts/Print.h.
o Passing NULL to .C() is now an error.
o .C() and .Fortran() now warn if "single" arguments are used with
DUP = FALSE, as changes to such arguments are not returned to the
caller.
o C entry points R_qsort and R_qsort_I now have start and end as
size_t to allow them to work with longer vectors on 64-bit
platforms. Code using them should be recompiled.
o A few recently added C entry points were missing the remapping to
Rf_, notably [dpq]nbinom_mu.
o Some of the interface pointers formerly available only to R.app
are now available to front-ends on all Unix-alikes: one has been
added for the interface to View().
o PACKAGE = "" is now an error in .C() etc calls: it was always
contrary to the documentation.
o Entry point rcont2 has been migrated to package stats and so is
no longer available.
o R_SVN_REVISION in Rversion.h is now an integer (rather than a
string) and hence usable as e.g. #if R_SVN_REVISION < 70000.
o The entry points rgb2hsv and hsv2rgb have been migrated to
package grDevices and so are no longer available.
o R_GE_version has been increased to 10 and name2col removed (use
R_GE_str2col instead). R internal colour codes are now defined
using the typedef rcolor.
o The REPROTECT macro now checks that the protect index is valid.
o Several non-API entry points no longer used by R have been
removed, including the Fortran entry points chol, chol2inv, cg,
ch and rg, and the C entry points Brent_fmin, fft_factor and
fft_work.
o If a .External call is registered with a number of arguments
(other than -1), the number of arguments passed is checked for
each call (as for other foreign function calls).
o It is now possible to write custom connection implementations
outside core R using R_ext/Connections.h. Please note that the
implementation of connections is still considered internal and
may change in the future (see the above file for details).
INTERNATIONALIZATION:
o The management of translations has been converted to R code: see
?tools::update_pkg_po.
o The translations for the R interpreter and RGui.exe are now part
of the base package (rather than having sources in directory po
and being installed to share/locale). Thus the base package
supports three translation domains, R-base, R and RGui.
o The compiled translations which ship with R are all installed to
the new package translations for easier updating. The first
package of that name found on .libPaths() at the start of the R
session will be used. (It is possible messages will be used
before .libPaths() is set up in which case the default
translations will be used: set environment variable
R_TRANSLATIONS to point to the location of the intended
translations package to use this right from the start.)
o The translations form a separate group in the Windows installer,
so can be omitted if desired.
o The markup for many messages has been changed to make them easier
to translate, incorporating suggestions from Lukasz Daniel.
INSTALLATION:
o There is again support for building without using the C 'long
double' type. This is required by C99, but system
implementations can be slow or flawed. Use configure option
--disable-long-double.
o make pdf and make install-pdf now make and install the full
reference index (including all base and recommended packages).
o The 'reference manual' on the Windows GUI menu and included in
the installer is now the full reference index, including all base
and recommended packages.
o R help pages and manuals have no ISBNs because ISBN rules no
longer allow constantly changing content to be assigned an ISBN.
o The Windows installer no longer installs a Start Menu link to the
static help pages; as most pages are generated dynamically, this
led to a lot of broken links.
o Any custom settings for Java configuration are recorded in file
etc/javaconf for subsequent use by R CMD javareconf.
o There is now support for makeinfo version 5.0 (which requires a
slightly different .texi syntax).
o The minimum versions for --use-system-zlib and --use-system-pcre
are now tested as 1.2.5 and 8.10 respectively.
o On Windows, the stack size is reduced to 16MB on 32-bit systems:
misguided users were launching many threads without controlling
the stack size.
o configure no longer looks for file ~/.Rconfig: ~/.R/config has
long been preferred.
BUG FIXES:
o When R CMD build is run in an encoding other than the one
specified in the package's DESCRIPTION file it tries harder to
expand the authors at R field in the specified encoding. (PR#14958)
o If R CMD INSTALL is required to expand the authors at R field of the
DESCRIPTION file, it tries harder to do so in the encoding
specified for the package (rather than using ASCII escapes).
o Fix in package grid for pushing a viewport into a layout cell,
where the layout is within a viewport that has zero physical
width OR where the layout has zero total relative width (likewise
for height). The layout column widths (or row heights) in this
case were being calculated with non-finite values. (Reported by
Winston Chang.)
o solve(A, b) for a vector b gave the answer names from colnames(A)
for LINPACK = TRUE but not in the default case.
o La.svd() accepts logical matrices (as documented, and as svd()
did).
o legend() now accepts negative pch values, in the same way
points() long has.
o Parse errors when installing files now correctly display the name
of the file containing the bad code.
o In Windows, tcltk windows were not always properly constructed.
(PR#15150)
o The internal functions implementing parse(), tools::parseLatex()
and tools::parse_Rd() were not reentrant, leading to errors in
rare circumstances such as a garbage collection triggering a
recursive call.
o Field assignments in reference class objects via $<- were not
being checked because the magic incantation to turn methods on
for that primitive operator had been inadvertently omitted.
o setHook(hookname, value, action="replace") set the hook to be the
value, rather than a list containing the value as documented.
(PR#15167)
o If a package used a NEWS.Rd file, the main HTML package index
page did not link to it. (Reported by Dirk Eddelbuettel.)
o The primitive implementation of @<- was not checking the class of
the replacement. It now does a check, quicker but less general
than slot<-. See the help.
o split(x, f) now recycles classed objects x in the same way as
vectors. (Reported by Martin Morgan.)
o pbeta(.28, 1/2, 2200, lower.tail=FALSE, log.p=TRUE) is no longer
-Inf; ditto for corresponding pt() and pf() calls, such as pt(45,
df=5000, lower.tail=FALSE, log.p=TRUE). (PR#15162)
o The Windows graphics device would crash R if a user attempted to
load the graphics history from a variable that was not a saved
history. (PR#15230)
o The workspace size for the predict() method for loess() could
exceed the maximum integer size. (Reported by Hiroyuki
Kawakatsu.)
o ftable(x, row.vars, col.vars) now also works when the *.vars
arguments are (integer or character vectors) of length zero.
o Calling cat() on a malformed UTF-8 string could cause the Windows
GUI to lock up. (PR#15227)
o removeClass(cc) gave "node stack overflow" for some class
definitions containing "array" or "matrix".
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Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
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Phone: (+45)38153501
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From rgentlem at gmail.com Mon Sep 15 18:36:17 2014
From: rgentlem at gmail.com (Robert Gentleman)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:36:17 -0700
Subject: Updates to R Core and R Foundation Membership
Message-ID: <CAGYbZUDSY-uh7svf4QO4=F8xgvsCHLshCEUuD7adfgdbNnRYDg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi all,
It is my pleasure to announce new members to R Core and to the R
Foundation
whose efforts will be most appreciated as R continues to evolve and
advance.
There are 2 new R core members: Martin Morgan and Michael Lawrence.
In addition Stefano Iacus has decided to step down from R Core.
There are 7 new R foundation members:
Dirk Eddelbuettel, Torsten Hothorn, Marc Schwartz,
Hadley Wickham, and Achim Zeileis, Martin Morgan and Michael Lawrence.
The R Foundation now has 29 ordinary members.
Please join me in welcoming them to their new roles and especially in
thanking
Stefano for his many years of contributions.
best wishes
Robert
for the R Foundation
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Robert Gentleman
rgentlem at gmail.com
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From bates at stat.wisc.edu Wed Jan 30 15:26:50 2002
From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates)
Date: 30 Jan 2002 08:26:50 -0600
Subject: R-1.4.1 available through rsync
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Sources for R-1.4.1 are now available through rsync from
rsync.r-project.org. One could use, for example,
rsync -aC rsync.r-project.org::r-release ./R-1.4.1
to create a local copy of the source tree.
Information on rsync is available from www.rsync.org
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From Peters.Andrea at imbe.imed.uni-erlangen.de Wed Apr 10 10:18:30 2002
From: Peters.Andrea at imbe.imed.uni-erlangen.de (Andrea Peters)
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:18:30 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: New Package: ipred - Improved predictors
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0204091937400.28610-100000@imbe78.imbe.med.uni-erlangen.de>
The package ipred is uploaded to CRAN.
The main focus of the package is the calculation of improved predictors
in classification tasks. Misclassification error can be improved by
bootstrap aggregated classification trees and/or
the framework of indirect classification. Furthermore, a unified
interface for the estimation of misclassification error
completes the features of ipred.
We try to make the interface as general as possible, however nothing is
carved in stone and suggestions for improvement are very welcome.
The DESCRIPTION file:
Package: ipred
Title: Improved Predictors
Version: 0.4-1
Date: $Date: 2002/04/08 15:41:37 $
Author: Andrea Peters <Andrea.Peters at imbe.imed.uni-erlangen.de> and
Torsten Hothorn <Torsten.Hothorn at rzmail.uni-erlangen.de>
Maintainer: Andrea Peters <Andrea.Peters at imbe.imed.uni-erlangen.de>
Description: Improved predictive models by direct and indirect
bootstrap aggregation in classification and regression as well as
resampling based estimators of prediction error.
Depends: rpart, MASS, mlbench
License: GPL
Regards,
Andrea
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From pd.mes at cbs.dk Mon May 31 11:16:36 2010
From: pd.mes at cbs.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 11:16:36 +0200
Subject: [R] R 2.11.1 is released
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I've rolled up R-2.11.1.tar.gz a short while ago. This is an update release, which fixes a number of mostly minor issues. The most annoying one was probably the problem with format.POSIXlt causing C stack overflow on long date vectors. See the full list of changes below.
You can get it from
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.11.1.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:
MD5 (AUTHORS) = ac9746b4845ae866661f51cfc99262f5
MD5 (COPYING) = eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a
MD5 (COPYING.LIB) = a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343
MD5 (FAQ) = 15600c9a568cbfcb72ea074f2bc5bfb3
MD5 (INSTALL) = 70447ae7f2c35233d3065b004aa4f331
MD5 (NEWS) = 32e5abe211dc0a7d13758d576ba20c01
MD5 (ONEWS) = a8c985af5ad5e9c7e0a9f502d07baeb4
MD5 (OONEWS) = 4f004de59e24a52d0f500063b4603bcb
MD5 (R-latest.tar.gz) = 7421108ade3e9223263394b9bbe277ce
MD5 (README) = 433182754c05c2cf7a04ad0da474a1d0
MD5 (RESOURCES) = 020479f381d5f9038dcb18708997f5da
MD5 (THANKS) = f2ccf22f3e20ebaa86f8ee5cc6b0f655
MD5 (R-2/R-2.11.1.tar.gz) = 7421108ade3e9223263394b9bbe277ce
This is the relevant part of the NEWS file:
CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.11.1
NEW FEATURES
o R CMD INSTALL checks if dependent packages are available early on
in the installation of source packages, thereby giving clearer
error messages.
o R CMD INSTALL --build now names the file in the format used
for Mac OS X binary files on that platform.
o BIC() in package stats4 now also works with multiple fitted models,
analogously to AIC().
DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT
o Use of file extension .C for C++ code in packages is now
deprecated: it has caused problems for some 'make's on
case-insensitive file systems (although it currently works
with the recommended toolkits).
INSTALLATION
o Command 'gnutar' is preferred to 'tar' when configure sets
TAR. This is needed on Mac OS 10.6, where the default tar,
bsdtar 2.6.2, has been reported to produce archives with
illegal extensions to tar (according to the POSIX standard).
BUG FIXES
o The C function mkCharLenCE now no longer reads past 'len' bytes
(unlikely to be a problem except in user code). (PR#14246)
o On systems without any default LD_LIBRARY_PATH (not even
/usr/local/lib), [DY]LIB_LIBRARY_PATH is now set without a
trailing colon. (PR#13637)
o More efficient utf8ToInt() on long multi-byte strings with
many multi-byte characters. (PR#14262)
o aggregate.ts() gave platform-depedent results due to rounding
error for ndeltat != 1.
o package.skeleton() sometimes failed to fix filenames for .R or
.Rd files to start with an alphanumeric. (PR#14253)
It also failed when only an S4 class without any methods was
defined. (PR#14280)
o splinefun(*, method = "monoH.FC") was not quite monotone in rare
cases. (PR#14215)
o Rhttpd no longer crashes due to SIGPIPE when the client closes
the connection prematurely. (PR#14266)
o format.POSIXlt() could cause a stack overflow and crash when used on
very long vectors. (PR#14267)
o Rd2latex() incorrectly escaped special characters in \usage sections.
o mcnemar.test() could alter the levels (dropping unused levels)
if passed 'x' and 'y' as factors (reported by Greg Snow).
o Rd2pdf sometimes needed a further pdflatex pass to get
hyperlinked pages correct.
o interaction() produced malformed results when levels were
duplicated, causing segfaults in split().
o cut(d, breaks = <n>) now also works for "Date" or "POSIXt"
argument d. (PR#14288)
o memDecompress() could decompress incompletely rare xz-compressed
input due to incorrect documentation of xz utils. (Report
and patch from Olaf Mersmann.)
o The S4 initialize() methods for "matrix", "array", and "ts" have
been fixed to call validObject(). (PR#14284)
o R CMD INSTALL now behaves the same way with or without
--no-multiarch on platforms with only one installed
architecture. (It used to clean the src directory without
--no-multiarch.)
o [<-.data.frame was not quite careful enough in assigning (and
potentially deleting) columns right-to-left. (PR#14263)
o rbeta(n, a,b) no longer occasionally returns NaN for a >> 1 > b.
(PR#14291)
o pnorm(x, log.p = TRUE) could return NaN not -Inf for x near
(minus for lower.tail=TRUE) the largest representable number.
o Compressed data files *.(txt|tab|csv).(gz|bz2|xz) were not
recognized for the list of data topics and hence for packages
using LazyData. (PR#14273)
o textConnection() did an unnecessary translation on strings in
a foreign encoding (e.g. UTF-8 strings on Windows) and so was
slower than it could have been on very long input strings.
(PR#14286)
o tools::Rd2txt() did not render poorly written Rd files
consistently with other renderers.
o na.action() did not extract the 'na.action' component as
duplicated, causing segfaults in split().
o cut(d, breaks = <n>) now also works for "Date" or "POSIXt"
argument d. (PR#14288)
o memDecompress() could decompress incompletely rare xz-compressed
o On systems without any default LD_LIBRARY_PATH (not even
/usr/local/lib), [DY]LIB_LIBRARY_PATH is now set without a
trailing colon. (PR#13637)
o More efficient utf8ToInt() on long multi-byte strings with
many multi-byte characters. (PR#14262)
o aggregate.ts() gave platform-depedent results due to rounding
error for ndeltat != 1.
o package.skeleton() sometimes failed to fix filenames for .R or
.Rd files to start with an alphanumeric. (PR#14253)
It also failed when only an S4 class without any methods was
defined. (PR#14280)
o splinefun(*, method = "monoH.FC") was not quite monotone in rare
cases. (PR#14215)
o Rhttpd no longer crashes due to SIGPIPE when the client closes
the connection prematurely. (PR#14266)
o format.POSIXlt() could cause a stack overflow and crash when used on
very long vectors. (PR#14267)
o Rd2latex() incorrectly escaped special characters in \usage sections.
o mcnemar.test() could alter the levels (dropping unused levels)
if passed 'x' and 'y' as factors (reported by Greg Snow).
o Rd2pdf sometimes needed a further pdflatex pass to get
hyperlinked pages correct.
o interaction() produced malformed results when levels were
duplicated, causing segfaults in split().
o cut(d, breaks = <n>) now also works for "Date" or "POSIXt"
argument d. (PR#14288)
o memDecompress() could decompress incompletely rare xz-compressed
input due to incorrect documentation of xz utils. (Report
and patch from Olaf Mersmann.)
o The S4 initialize() methods for "matrix", "array", and "ts" have
been fixed to call validObject(). (PR#14284)
o R CMD INSTALL now behaves the same way with or without
--no-multiarch on platforms with only one installed
architecture. (It used to clean the src directory without
--no-multiarch.)
o [<-.data.frame was not quite careful enough in assigning (and
potentially deleting) columns right-to-left. (PR#14263)
o rbeta(n, a,b) no longer occasionally returns NaN for a >> 1 > b.
(PR#14291)
o pnorm(x, log.p = TRUE) could return NaN not -Inf for x near
(minus for lower.tail=TRUE) the largest representable number.
o Compressed data files *.(txt|tab|csv).(gz|bz2|xz) were not
recognized for the list of data topics and hence for packages
using LazyData. (PR#14273)
o textConnection() did an unnecessary translation on strings in
a foreign encoding (e.g. UTF-8 strings on Windows) and so was
slower than it could have been on very long input strings.
(PR#14286)
o tools::Rd2txt() did not render poorly written Rd files
consistently with other renderers.
o na.action() did not extract the 'na.action' component as
documented.
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From Setzer.Woodrow at epamail.epa.gov Tue Feb 6 15:34:27 2001
From: Setzer.Woodrow at epamail.epa.gov (Setzer.Woodrow at epamail.epa.gov)
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:34:27 -0500
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
CRAN now contains a new package for numerically solving ordinary
differential equations. The package (odesolve_0.5-3) currently provides an
interface to the solver "LSODA" written by Linda Petzold and Alan
Hindmarsh. LSODA is an adaptive solver, switching between methods
appropriate for non-stiff and stiff systems as the problem requires. In
this implementation, the system of ODEs are written as an R function. A
vector of parameters may be passed to the function, making it relatively
easy to use lsoda in functions to be passed to various R optimizers.
R. Woodrow Setzer, Jr. Phone:
(919) 541-0128
Experimental Toxicology Division Fax: (919) 541-5394
Pharmacokinetics Branch
NHEERL MD-74; US EPA; RTP, NC 27711
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