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identical() gains three logical arguments, which allow for even more differentiation, notably '-0' and '0'.
The functions arrangeWindows() and getWindowsHandles() have been added to give more programmatic control to the appearance of windows in an R session.
A Windows menu has been added to the SDI version of the R GUI, and the corresponding menu in the MDI version has been expanded slightly.