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Wed, 02 Jan 2013

CHANGES IN R-devel NEW FEATURES

• ‘close()’ now return a status where available, invisibly. (Wish of PR#15088.)

CHANGES IN R-devel PACKAGE INSTALLATION

• Packages can specify in their ‘DESCRIPTION file’ a line like

  Biarch: yes

  to be installed on Windows with ‘--force-biarch’.

CHANGES IN R-devel INSTALLATION

• ‘make pdf’ and ‘make install-pdf’ now make and install the full reference index (including all base and recommended packages).

2.15.2 patched INSTALLATION

• The ‘configure’ tests for Objective C and Objective C++ should now work on Mac OS 10.8 with Xcode 4.5.2 (PR#15107).

2.15.2 patched BUG FIXES

• 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)

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