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A general description is here.
Packages which include graphics devices need to be re-installed for this version of R, with recently updated versions.
dev.copy2eps() uses dev.displaylist() to detect screen
devices, rather than list them in the function.
If writeLines(con = stdout()) is used (the default) and
sink(split=TRUE) has been used, the output is now sent to all
the active sink connections.
New function checkNEWS() that detects common errors in NEWS
file formatting.
New function checkNEWS() in package 'tools' that detects common errors in NEWS file formatting.
[g]sub(useBytes= = FALSE) now sets the encoding on changed elements of the result when working on an element of known encoding. (This was previously done only for perl = TRUE.)
[dpqr]gamma(*, shape= = 0) now work as limits of 'shape -> 0', corresponding to the point distribution with all mass at 0.
strsplit(), grepgrep(), strsplit() and friends with fixed=TRUE or perl=TRUE work in UTF-8 and preserve the UTF-8 encoding for UTF-8 inputs where supported.
dev.copy2eps() uses dev.displaylist() to detect screen devices, rather than list them in the function.