• memory.limit() did not allow sizes greater than 4095 even on 64 bit builds. (PR#14372)

• system(intern=TRUE) often returned 0 rather than an error status if the command could not be found, if run from Rterm or from Rgui with show.output.on.console = FALSE.

• A fix intended for Mac OS X was incorrectly applied to Windows, so iconv(x, from, "") in a C locale was interpreted as requesting translation to UTF-8.

• readClipboard() could cause a segfault with certain clipboard data.

• serialize() to a raw vector works around the dismal performance of Windows' memory manager by allocating much larger chunks of memory less frequently.

• file.rename() now waits for the rename to complete before returning, so that operations on the new filename will not fail.

• Sys.info() and win.version() now report Windows 7 as such (and not as Vista), and Sys.info() now reports the machine type as 'x86-64' on 64-bit platforms.

• The Rgui console, pagers and editor on the 64-bit build now have a title bar icon.

• The outer frame/console for Rgui/Rterm mentions '(64-bit)' to make it easier to distinguish running copies of R.

• The package entries in listbox shown by the 'Install package(s) ...' menu are now explicitly sorted in the current locale (there were in most previous releases, but not in 2.11.0).

• R CMD INSTALL can install zipfiles as binary packages.

2.11.1 NEW FEATURES (Windows)

• The Rgui console, pagers and editor on the 64-bit build now have a title bar icon.

• The outer frame/console for Rgui/Rterm mentions '(64-bit)' to make it easier to distinguish running copies of R.

• The package entries in listbox shown by the 'Install package(s) ...' menu are now explicitly sorted in the current locale (there were in most previous releases, but not in 2.11.0).

• R CMD INSTALL can install zipfiles as binary packages.

• Errors in the Rconsole file are ignored: silently on startup, with a warning when Rconsole is loaded interactively.

• R CMD INSTALL can install zipfiles as binary packages.

• The outer frame/console for RGgui/Rterm mentions '(64-bit)' to make it easier to distinguish running copies of R.

2.8.0 BUG FIXES (Windows)

• The Korean translation of the RGgui menus has been corrected and restored. (Thanks to June Kim and Seung-ho Kang.)

2.7.2 BUG FIXES (Windows)

• Some (but not all) Korean users have been having problems with Korean translations of the RGgui menus. These had not been updated for a long time, and have now been removed.

• The outer frame/console for RGui/Rterm mentions '(64-bit)' to make it easier to distinguish running copies of R.

• The package entries in listbox shown by the 'Install package(s) ...' menu are now explicitly sorted in the current locale (there were in most previous releases, but not in 2.11.0).

• The package entries in the 'Install package(s) ...' menu are now explicitly sorted in the current locale (there were in most previous releases, but not in 2.11.0).

• The Rgui console, pagers and editor on the 64-bit build now have a title bar icon.

• The outer frame/console for RGui/Rterm mention '(64-bit)' to make it easier to distinguish running copies of R.

• 0^1i (which should be complex NAN) was incorrect.

• 0^1i (which should be complex NAN) was incorrect.

• The MSI installer defaults to an all-user (per machine) install (by setting the ALLUSERS property to 1). This can be changed at installation, and ift can be built for a user-mode install (see MkRules.dist).

• RSetReg.exe has been updated to (un)set the version-specific keys in the same way as the main installer, and to have the optional argument /Personal to (un)set the per-user rather than the per-machine keys (which need administrative access).

• The MSI installer defaults to an all-user (per machine) install (by setting the ALLUSERS property to 1). This can be changed at installation, and if can be built for a user-mode install (see MkRules.dist).

• RSetReg.exe has been updated to (un)set the version-specific keys in the same way as the main installer.

• The MSI installer defaults to an all-user (per machine) install (by setting the ALLUSERS property to 1).

• readRegistry() can look at either the 32- or 64-bit view of the Registry on 64-bit Windows.

• The Tcl timezone files (3Mb on disc) are now an optional part of the installation: they would be very rarely used with R.

• When building R, the recommended way is now to supply a file R_HOME/src/gnuwin32/MkRules.local instead of editing MkRules: there is now no MkRules file in the distribution, but one is generated during the build process.

  MkRules.local can be generated by copying and editing MkRules.dist.