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R CMD INSTALL checks if dependent packages are available early on in the installation of source packages, thereby giving clearer error messages.
memDecompress() could decompress incompletely rare xz-compressed input due to incorrect documentation of xz utils. (Report and patch from Olaf Mersmann.)
the initialize() methods for "matrix", "array", and "ts" have been fixed to call validObject() (PR#14284)