Daily News: R-2-10-branch/CHANGES https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES Daily updates to R-2-10-branch/CHANGES en 2010-02-12 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:00:00 GMT https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2010/02/11#c2010-02-12 https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2010/02/11#c2010-02-12 2.10.1 patched BUG FIXES (Windows)

  • setWinProgressBar() did not check the type of its 'title' and 'label' arguments and might have crashed if they were mis-specified. It now does, thanks to a report by Greg Snow.

]]> 2010-01-23 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:00:00 GMT https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2010/01/22#c2010-01-23 https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2010/01/22#c2010-01-23 2.10.1 patched BUG FIXES (Windows)

  • system() (and hence shell()) did not set the standard file handles properly, so some programs would not run.

]]> 2009-12-31 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:00:00 GMT https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/12/30#c2009-12-31 https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/12/30#c2009-12-31 2.10.0 patched BUG FIXES (Windows)

  • The installer did not properly record help type choices in R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site.

  • Rcmd INSTALL once again uses --no-restore, for consistency with the Unix version and R 2.9.2.

  • The HTML package index was not constructed properly when the library path was specified with backslashes. (Patch submitted by Gabor Grothendieck.)

  • Some of the MDI toolbar buttons (e.g. "Open Script") did not return the focus to the console if the user cancelled the action.

2.10.1 patched BUG FIXES (Windows)

  • Some of the MDI toolbar buttons (e.g. "Open Script") did not return the focus to the console if the user cancelled the action.

2.10.1 BUG FIXES (Windows)

  • The installer did not properly record help type choices in R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site.

  • Rcmd INSTALL once again uses --no-restore, for consistency with the Unix version and R 2.9.2.

  • The HTML package index was not constructed properly when the library path was specified with backslashes. (Patch submitted by Gabor Grothendieck.)

]]> 2009-12-30 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:00:00 GMT https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/12/29#c2009-12-30 https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/12/29#c2009-12-30 2.10.0 patched BUG FIXES (Windows)

  • Some of the MDI toolbar buttons (e.g. "Open Script") did not return the focus to the console if the user cancelled the action.

2.2.1 UNCATEGORIZED (Windows)

  • Input from the Rgui console was changing the letter 255 (ÿÿ in Latin-2) in the character set to letter 1.

]]> 2009-11-22 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/11/21#c2009-11-22 https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/11/21#c2009-11-22 2.2.1 UNCATEGORIZED (Windows)

  • Input from the Rgui console was changing the letter 255 (ÿÿ in Latin-2) in the character set to letter 1.

]]> 2009-11-18 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/11/17#c2009-11-18 https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/11/17#c2009-11-18 2.10.0 patched BUG FIXES (Windows)

  • The HTML package index was not constructed properly when the library path was specified with backslashes. (Patch submitted by Gabor Grothendieck.)

2.2.1 UNCATEGORIZED (Windows)

  • Input from the Rgui console was changing the letter 255 (ÿÿ in Latin-2) in the character set to letter 1.

]]> 2009-11-07 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/11/06#c2009-11-07 https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/11/06#c2009-11-07 2.10.0 patched BUG FIXES (Windows)

  • Rcmd INSTALL once again uses --no-restore, for consistency with the Unix version and R 2.9.2.

]]> 2009-11-06 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/11/05#c2009-11-06 https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/11/05#c2009-11-06 2.10.0 patched BUG FIXES (Windows)

  • Rcmd INSTALL once again uses --no-restore, for consistency with the Unix version and R 2.9.2.

]]> 2009-10-29 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:00 GMT https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/10/28#c2009-10-29 https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/10/28#c2009-10-29 2.10.0 BUG FIXES (Windows)

  • 'Rcmd open' now works as documented: previously 'Rcmd open.exe' was required.

  • cat(x, file=) in Rgui tried to interpret UTF-8-encoded strings for the console rather than converting them to the native encoding.

]]> 2009-10-27 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:00:00 GMT https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/10/26#c2009-10-27 https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/10/26#c2009-10-27 2.10.0 patched BUG FIXES (Windows)

  • The installer did not properly record help type choices in R_HOME/etc/Rprofile.site.

]]> 2009-10-21 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:00:00 GMT https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/10/20#c2009-10-21 https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/10/20#c2009-10-21 2.10.0 BUG FIXES (Windows)

  • cat(x, file=) in Rgui tried to interpre UTF-8-encoded strings for the console rather than converting them to the native encoding.

]]> 2009-10-20 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:00:00 GMT https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/10/19#c2009-10-20 https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/10/19#c2009-10-20 2.10.0 BUG FIXES (Windows)

  • cat(x, file=) in Rgui tried to interpre UTF-8-encoded strings for the console rather than converting them to the native encoding.

]]> 2009-10-12 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:00:00 GMT https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/10/11#c2009-10-12 https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-10-branch/CHANGES/2009/10/11#c2009-10-12 2.10.0 BUG FIXES (Windows)

  • 'Rcmd open' now work as documented: previously 'Rcmd open.exe' was required.

2.10.0 NEW FEATURES (Windows)

  • The remaining Perl scripts build, check, Rprof, Sd2Rd in R_HOME/bin now have extension .pl.

  • Rcmd (or R CMD) can now run .sh (shell) and .pl (Perl) scripts anywhere on the path (as well as .bat and .exe files as before).

2.10.0 PACKAGE INSTALLATION (Windows)

  • Help in base and recommended packages is no longer zipped: text, HTML, latex and examples files are now built when needed.

    Options --use-zip and --use-zip-help in R CMD INSTALL are no longer available and --auto-zip only zips data (or not).

    Help in packages installed under 2.9.x may not work correctly, and a warning is given when such a package is attached by library(). Re-installation of all packages is advised (use update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE)).

    Binary packages are installed without CHM help if they contain it (as those intended for 2.9.x may).

  • Help files are no longer zipped: rendering as text, HTML, latex or examples is now done when needed.

    Options --use-zip and --use-zip-help in R CMD INSTALL are no longer available and --auto-zip only zips data (or not).

    Help in packages installed under 2.9.x may not work correctly, and a warning is given when such a package is attached by library(). Re-installation of all packages is strongly recommended (use update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE)).

    Binary packages are installed without CHM help if they contain it (as those intended for 2.9.x may).

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