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Sun, 07 Dec 2014

CHANGES IN R-devel INSTALLATION and INCLUDED SOFTWARE

• The ‘\donttest’ sections of R's help files can be tested by ‘make check TEST_DONTTEST=TRUE’ .

• (Windows.) Installation using external binary distributions of ‘zlib’, ‘bzip’, ‘liblzma’, ‘pcre’, ‘libpng’, ‘jpeglib’ and ‘libtiff’ is now preferred and likely to become the only way before release.

CHANGES IN R-devel UTILITIES

• ‘R CMD check’ now checks the packages used in ‘\donttest’ sections of the examples. (These will be needed to run the examples interactively.)

CHANGES IN R 3.1.2 patched DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

• The ‘configure’ option ‘--with-valgrind-instrumentation=3’ is deprecated and will be removed in R 3.2.0.

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