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‘iconv()’ now fixes up variant encoding names such as ‘"utf8"’ case-insensitively.
The legacy ‘encoding = "MacRoman"’ is deprecated in ‘pdf()’ and ‘postscript()’: support was incomplete in earlier versions of R.
Arguments are now properly forwarded to methods on S4 generics with ... in the middle of their formal arguments. This was broken for the case when a method introduced an argument but did not include ... in its own formals. Thanks to Hervé Pagès for the report PR#18538.
Some invalid ‘file’ arguments to ‘pictex()’, ‘postscript()’ and ‘xfig()’ opened a file called ‘NA’ rather than throw an error. These included ‘postscript(NULL)’ (which some people expected to work like ‘pdf(NULL)’).
Passing ‘filename = NA’ to ‘svg()’, ‘cairo_pdf()’, ‘cairo_ps()’ or the Cairo-based bitmap devices opened a file called ‘NA’: it now throws an error.
‘quartz(file = NA)’ opened a file called ‘NA’, including when used as a Quartz-based bitmap device. It now gives an error.
‘rank(<long vector>)’ now works, fixing PR#18617, thanks to Ilia Kats.
‘seq.int()’ did not adequately check its ‘length.out’ argument.
‘match(<POSIXct>, .)’ is correct again for differing time zones, ditto for ‘"POSIXlt"’, fixing PR#18618 reported by Bastian Klein.
‘drop.terms(*, dropx = <0-length>)’ now works, fixing PR#18563 as proposed by Mikael Jagan.
‘drop.terms(*)’ keeps ‘ + offset(.)’ terms when it should, PR#18565, and ‘drop.terms()’ no longer makes up a response, PR#18566, fixing both bugs thanks to Mikael Jagan.
‘getS3method("t", "test")’ no longer finds the ‘t.test()’ function, fixing PR#18627.
‘pdf()’ and ‘postscript()’ support for the documented Adobe encodings ‘"Greek"’ and ‘"Cyrilllic"’ was missing (although the corresponding Windows' codepages could be used).
Computations of glyph metric information for ‘pdf()’ and ‘postscript()’ did not take into account that transliteration could replace one character by two or more (only seen on macOS 14) and typically warned that the information was not known.
‘rank(x)’ no longer overflows during integer addition, when computing rank average for largish but not-yet long vector ‘x’, fixing PR#18630, thanks to Ilia Kats.
‘list.files()’ on Windows now returns also files with names longer that 260 bytes (the Windows limit is 260 characters). Previously, some file names particularly with ‘East Asian’ characters were omitted.
‘cov2cor(<0 x 0>)’ now works, fixing PR#18423 thanks to Mikael Jagan and Elin Waring.
‘cov2cor(<negative diagonal>)’ and similar now give one warning instead of two, with better wording, fixing PR#18424 thanks to Mikael Jagan.
‘tools’‘:: startDynamicHelp()’ now ensures ‘port’ is in proper range, fixing PR#18645.
‘pbeta(x, a,b)’ is correct now for ‘x’=0 or 1 in the boundary cases where ‘a’ or ‘b’ or both are 0, fixing PR#18672 thanks to Michael Fay.
‘iconv()’ now fixes up variant encoding names such as ‘"utf8"’ case-insensitively.
The legacy ‘encoding = "MacRoman"’ is deprecated in ‘pdf()’ and ‘postscript()’: support was incomplete in earlier versions of R.
Arguments are now properly forwarded to methods on S4 generics with ... in the middle of their formal arguments. This was broken for the case when a method introduced an argument but did not include ... in its own formals. Thanks to Hervé Pagès for the report PR#18538.
Some invalid ‘file’ arguments to ‘pictex()’, ‘postscript()’ and ‘xfig()’ opened a file called ‘NA’ rather than throw an error. These included ‘postscript(NULL)’ (which some people expected to work like ‘pdf(NULL)’).
Passing ‘filename = NA’ to ‘svg()’, ‘cairo_pdf()’, ‘cairo_ps()’ or the Cairo-based bitmap devices opened a file called ‘NA’: it now throws an error.
‘quartz(file = NA)’ opened a file called ‘NA’, including when used as a Quartz-based bitmap device. It now gives an error.
‘rank(<long vector>)’ now works, fixing PR#18617, thanks to Ilia Kats.
‘seq.int()’ did not adequately check its ‘length.out’ argument.
‘match(<POSIXct>, .)’ is correct again for differing time zones, ditto for ‘"POSIXlt"’, fixing PR#18618 reported by Bastian Klein.
‘drop.terms(*, dropx = <0-length>)’ now works, fixing PR#18563 as proposed by Mikael Jagan.
‘drop.terms(*)’ keeps ‘ + offset(.)’ terms when it should, PR#18565, and ‘drop.terms()’ no longer makes up a response, PR#18566, fixing both bugs thanks to Mikael Jagan.
‘getS3method("t", "test")’ no longer finds the ‘t.test()’ function, fixing PR#18627.
‘pdf()’ and ‘postscript()’ support for the documented Adobe encodings ‘"Greek"’ and ‘"Cyrilllic"’ was missing (although the corresponding Windows' codepages could be used).
Computations of glyph metric information for ‘pdf()’ and ‘postscript()’ did not take into account that transliteration could replace one character by two or more (only seen on macOS 14) and typically warned that the information was not known.
‘rank(x)’ no longer overflows during integer addition, when computing rank average for largish but not-yet long vector ‘x’, fixing PR#18630, thanks to Ilia Kats.
‘list.files()’ on Windows now returns also files with names longer that 260 bytes (the Windows limit is 260 characters). Previously, some file names particularly with ‘East Asian’ characters were omitted.
‘cov2cor(<0 x 0>)’ now works, fixing PR#18423 thanks to Mikael Jagan and Elin Waring.
‘cov2cor(<negative diagonal>)’ and similar now give one warning instead of two, with better wording, fixing PR#18424 thanks to Mikael Jagan.
‘tools’‘:: startDynamicHelp()’ now ensures ‘port’ is in proper range, fixing PR#18645.