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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’.
If a package used a ‘NEWS.Rd’ file, the main HTML package index page did not link to it. (Reported by Dirk Eddelbuettel.)