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Wed, 07 Jan 2015

CHANGES IN R-devel NEW FEATURES

• Speed-up from Peter Haverty for ‘ls()’ and ‘methods:::.requirePackage()’ speeding up package loading. (PR#16133)

CHANGES IN R-devel INSTALLATION and INCLUDED SOFTWARE

• It is possible to request the use of system ‘valgrind’ headers _via_ ‘configure’ option ‘--with-system-valgrind-headers’: note the possible future incompatibility of such headers discussed in the 'R Installation and Administration' manual. (Wish of PR#16068.)

• ‘configure’ requires the ‘texi2any’ script from ‘texinfo’ 5.1 or later, replacing the ‘makeinfo’ program. (‘makeinfo’ is a link to the Perl script ‘texi2any’ in ‘texinfo’ 5.x.)

CHANGES IN R-devel WINDOWS BUILD CHANGES

• It is possible to build without ‘makeinfo’: see the comments in file ‘MkRules.dist’.

• Building the manuals now requires ‘texi2any’ from ‘texinfo’ 5.1 or later. CRAN binary builds include the manuals, but by default builds from source will not, and they will be accessed from CRAN. See the comments in ‘src/gnuwin32/MkRules.dist’ for how to specify the location of ‘texi2any’.

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