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The license check enabled by ‘options(checkPackageLicense = TRUE)’ is now done when the package's namespace is first loaded.
‘citation()’ supports ‘inst/CITATION’ files from package source trees, with ‘lib.loc’ pointing to the directory containing the package.
‘split(<very_long>, *)’ now works with long vectors. (PR#17193)