• ‘bitmap()’ and ‘dev2bitmap()’ look for ‘gswin64c.exe’ (as used by 64-bit GhostScript), in preference to ‘gswin32c.exe’.

2.14.1 patched INSTALLATION (Windows)

• The sources (and packages) can now be compiled using the multilib toolchain developed for R 2.15.x: see the ‘MULTI’ macro in ‘MkRules.dist’. This toolchain is used for the CRAN binary distribution.

2.14.1 patched PACKAGE INSTALLATION (Windows)

• The preferred toolchain has changed since the one used for R 2.12.0 to 2.14.1: see the‘R Installation and Administration manual’. Compiled code (except DLLs) may be incompatible with previous toolchains (and compiled C++ code almost certainly will be: users of ‘Rcpp’ take care).

  Ensure that the settings in ‘MkRules.local’ are appropriate to the toolchain you use.

• There is a new macro (aka make variable) ‘SHLIB_PTHREAD_FLAGS’. This is set to ‘-pthread’ on builds using toolchains which support it, and should be included in both ‘PKG_CPPFLAGS’ (or the Fortran or F9x equivalents) and ‘PKG_LIBS’.

2.14.1 patched BUG FIXES (Windows)

• Using a prompt of more than 80 characters in ‘readline()’ could cause a buffer overflow in Rterm. (Reported by Henrik Bengtsson.)

2.14.2 NEW FEATURES (Windows)

• ‘bitmap()’ and ‘dev2bitmap()’ look for ‘gswin64c.exe’ (as used by 64-bit GhostScript), in preference to ‘gswin32c.exe’.

2.14.2 INSTALLATION (Windows)

• The sources (and packages) can now be compiled using the multilib toolchain developed for R 2.15.x: see the ‘MULTI’ macro in ‘MkRules.dist’. This toolchain is used for the CRAN binary distribution.

2.14.2 PACKAGE INSTALLATION (Windows)

• The preferred toolchain has changed since the one used for R 2.12.0 to 2.14.1: see the‘R Installation and Administration manual’. Compiled code (except DLLs) may be incompatible with previous toolchains (and compiled C++ code almost certainly will be: users of ‘Rcpp’ take care).

  Ensure that the settings in ‘MkRules.local’ are appropriate to the toolchain you use.

• There is a new macro (aka make variable) ‘SHLIB_PTHREAD_FLAGS’. This is set to ‘-pthread’ on builds using toolchains which support it, and should be included in both ‘PKG_CPPFLAGS’ (or the Fortran or F9x equivalents) and ‘PKG_LIBS’.

2.14.2 BUG FIXES (Windows)

• Using a prompt of more than 80 characters in ‘readline()’ could cause a buffer overflow in Rterm. (Reported by Henrik Bengtsson.)

• Some of the custom messages in the installer were corrupted: add a BOM mark to the file as now required by Unicode Inno Setup. (PR#14816)

• Using a prompt of more than 80 characters in ‘readline()’ could cause a buffer overflow in Rterm. (Reported by Henrik Bengtsson.)

• Using a prompt of more than 80 characters in ‘readline()’ could cause a buffer overflow in Rterm. (Reported by Henrik Bengtsson.)

2.14.1 patched PACKAGE INSTALLATION (Windows)

• The preferred toolchain has changed since the one used for R 2.12.0 to 2.14.1: see the‘R Installation and Administration manual’. Compiled code (except DLLs) may be incompatible with previous toolchains (and compiled C++ code almost certainly will be: users of ‘Rcpp’ take care).

  Ensure that the settings in ‘MkRules.local’ are appropriate to the toolchain you use.

• There is a new macro (aka make variable) ‘SHLIB_PTHREAD_FLAGS’. This is set to ‘-pthread’ on builds using toolchains which support it, and should be included in both ‘PKG_CPPFLAGS’ (or the Fortran or F9x equivalents) and ‘PKG_LIBS’.

2.14.1 patched INSTALLATION (Windows)

• The sources (and packages) can now be compiled using the multilib toolchain developed for R 2.15.x: see the ‘MULTI’ macro in ‘MkRules.dist’. This toolchain is used for the CRAN binary distribution.

• The sources (and packages) can now be compiled using the multilib toolchain recommended for R 2.15.x: see the ‘MULTI’ macro in ‘MkRules.dist’.

2.14.1 BUG FIXES (Windows)

• The fix for PR#14543 caused stack problems with outputting large R objects (e.g. data frames of 25,000 items). (PR#14698)

• Using a prompt of more than 80 characters in ‘readline()’ could cause a buffer overflow in Rterm. (Reported by Henrik Bengtsson.)

• The ‘Save as’ menu item on the script editor adds extension ‘.R’ to a file name without an extension.

• In package ‘parallel’, ‘detectCores(logical = FALSE)’ makes an OS-dependent attempt to find the number of physical cores. It usually succeeds, even on XP.

2.14.1 PACKAGE INSTALLATION (Windows)

• The directory pointed to by ‘USER_LOCAL’ can now have architecture-specific sub-directories ‘lib/i386’ and ‘lib/x64’.

2.14.1 BUG FIXES (Windows)

• The fix for PR#14543 caused stack problems with outputing large R objects (e.g. data frames of 25,000 items). (PR#14698)

• In a double-byte locale (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), ‘grep()’ and friends might have used byte-wise matching of strings in the native encoding. (PR#14622)

2.14.1 patched NEW FEATURES (Windows)

• ‘bitmap()’ and ‘dev2bitmap()’ look for ‘gswin64c.exe’ (as used by 64-bit GhostScript), in preference to ‘gswin32c.exe’.

• The directory pointed to by ‘USER_LOCAL’ can now have architecture-specific sub-directories ‘lib/i386’ and ‘lib/x64’.

• The ‘Save as’ menu item on the script editor adds extension ‘.R’ to a file name without an extension.

• In package ‘parallel’, ‘detectCores(logical = FALSE)’ makes an OS-dependent attempt to find the number of physical cores. It usually succeeds, even on XP.

2.14.0 patched BUG FIXES (Windows)

• The fix for PR#14543 caused stack problems with outputing large R objects (e.g. data frames of 25,000 items). (PR#14698)

• In a double-byte locale (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), ‘grep()’ and friends might have used byte-wise matching of strings in the native encoding. (PR#14622)

• The fix for PR#14543 caused stack problems with outputing large R objects (e.g. data frames of 25,000 items). (PR#14698)

  In a double-byte locale (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), ‘grep()’ and friends might have used byte-wise matching of strings in the native encoding. (PR#14622)

2.14.0 patched NEW FEATURES (Windows)

• In package ‘parallel’, ‘detectCores(logical = FALSE)’ makes an OS-dependent attempt to find the number of physical cores. It usually succeeds, even on XP.

• The ‘Save as’ menu item on the script editor appends ‘.R’ to a file name without an extension.

• In package ‘parallel’, ‘detectCores(logical = FALSE)’ makes an OS-dependent attempt to find the number of physical cores.

• Where both 32- and 64-bit versions of R are installed, the file association for ‘.RData’ files defaults to 64-bit R (it defaulted to 32-bit in R 2.12.x and 2.13.x).

• Raster drawing on ‘win.metafile()’ (or copying a plot that includes a raster image from another device to a Metafile) now does not crash. (Reported by Stefan Gelissen.)

• There is a Danish translation of the RGui menus.

• The ‘yLineBias’ of the ‘windows()’ family of devices has been changed from 0.1 to 0.2: this changes slightly the vertical positioning of text (including axis annotations). This can be overridden by setting the new ‘"ylbias"’ graphical parameter. This was done for consistency with other devices such as ‘pdf()’.

• ‘R CMD build’ once again attempts to preserve file permissions on Windows.

• There is support for cairographics-based devices using the same code as on Unix-alikes. This can be selected by the new ‘type’ argument of the bitmap devices ‘bmp()’, ‘jpeg()’, ‘png()’ and ‘tiff()’, and devices ‘svg()’, ‘cairo_pdf()’ and ‘cairo_ps()’ are now available on Windows.

  These are not compiled in by default when building from source: see the instructions in the ‘R Installation and Administration Manual’.

• All the Windows-specific graphics devices now have a ‘family’ argument. If non-empty this specifies an initial family to be used for fonts 1-4. If empty the fonts specified in the ‘Rdevga’ configuration file are used for the Windows GDI devices and ‘"sans"’ for cairographics-based devices.

  This will generally be a Windows font name such as ‘"Lucida Bright"’ or one of the device-independent names (‘"sans"’, ‘"serif"’ and ‘"mono"’). Outside Western Europe you may need to select a family that better supports your locale such as ‘"Arial MS Unicode"’ or one specific to Chinese/Korean/Thai ....

• There is a new ‘antialias’ argument to ‘windows()’, ‘win.print()’ and the bitmap devices. This is an option that can be set in ‘windows.options()’ to set the default for ‘windows()’ (and ‘win.graph()’).

  This gives a hint to the Windows plotting system. Whether anti-aliasing is actually used principally depends on the OS settings: this argument should at least be able to turn it off. The default behaviour (unchanged from before) is that Windows will use anti-aliasing for screen devices (and bitmap devices, as they plot on a hidden screen) if ClearType has been enabled. For those not using ClearType, ‘windows.options(antialias = "cleartype")’ will make this the default, and it will probably give more legible plots.

  The argument can also be used for the cairographics-based versions of the bitmap devices.

• The ‘Update packages ...’ menu item now runs ‘update.packages(ask="graphics", checkBuilt=TRUE)’.

• ‘R CMD INSTALL’ preserves the package-directory modification time when it restores an earlier install of the package.

• File extensions ‘.xz’, ‘.rda’ and ‘.RData’ have been added to those which default to binary transfer for ‘download.file()’.

• ‘install.packages()’ and ‘R CMD check’ have a small delay after removing a directory to counteract some interference from anti-virus software.

CHANGES IN R-devel INSTALLATION (Windows)

• Compilation of C and Fortran code now uses the optimization flag ‘-mtune=core2’: this will improve performance a few percent on recent CPUs at the expense of those which are several years old. Its effect is particularly evident on 64-bit builds.

  This can be overridden when building from the sources: see the ‘EOPTS’ macro defined in file ‘MkRules.dist’.

• Where both 32- and 64-bit versions of R are installed, the file association for @file.RData files defaults to 64-bit R (it defaulted to 32-bit in R 2.12.x and 2.13.x).

• There is preliminary support for ‘multilib’ toolchains which use options ‘--m32’ or ‘--m64’ to select the architecture; set the appropriate macros in ‘MkRules.local’.

  It is the intention to move to such a toolchain when they become mature enough.

CHANGES IN R-devel PACKAGE INSTALLATION (Windows)

• ‘Rzlib.dll’ (sometimes used in packages _via_ ‘$(ZLIB_LIBS)’) does not include the buggy gzio interface from zlib 1.2.5.

CHANGES IN R-devel DEFUNCT (Windows)

• zip.unpack() (deprecated in R 2.13.0) is defunct: use ‘unzip()’ instead.

2.14.0 NEW FEATURES (Windows)

• The ‘yLineBias’ of the ‘windows()’ family of devices has been changed from 0.1 to 0.2: this changes slightly the vertical positioning of text (including axis annotations). This can be overridden by setting the new ‘"ylbias"’ graphical parameter. This was done for consistency with other devices such as ‘pdf()’.

• ‘R CMD build’ once again attempts to preserve file permissions on Windows.

• There is support for cairographics-based devices using the same code as on Unix-alikes. This can be selected by the new ‘type’ argument of the bitmap devices ‘bmp()’, ‘jpeg()’, ‘png()’ and ‘tiff()’, and devices ‘svg()’, ‘cairo_pdf()’ and ‘cairo_ps()’ are now available on Windows.

  These are not compiled in by default when building from source: see the instructions in the ‘R Installation and Administration Manual’.

• All the Windows-specific graphics devices now have a ‘family’ argument. If non-empty this specifies an initial family to be used for fonts 1-4. If empty the fonts specified in the ‘Rdevga’ configuration file are used for the Windows GDI devices and ‘"sans"’ for cairographics-based devices.

  This will generally be a Windows font name such as ‘"Lucida Bright"’ or one of the device-independent names (‘"sans"’, ‘"serif"’ and ‘"mono"’). Outside Western Europe you may need to select a family that better supports your locale such as ‘"Arial MS Unicode"’ or one specific to Chinese/Korean/Thai ....

• There is a new ‘antialias’ argument to ‘windows()’, ‘win.print()’ and the bitmap devices. This is an option that can be set in ‘windows.options()’ to set the default for ‘windows()’ (and ‘win.graph()’).

  This gives a hint to the Windows plotting system. Whether anti-aliasing is actually used principally depends on the OS settings: this argument should at least be able to turn it off. The default behaviour (unchanged from before) is that Windows will use anti-aliasing for screen devices (and bitmap devices, as they plot on a hidden screen) if ClearType has been enabled. For those not using ClearType, ‘windows.options(antialias = "cleartype")’ will make this the default, and it will probably give more legible plots.

  The argument can also be used for the cairographics-based versions of the bitmap devices.

• The ‘Update packages ...’ menu item now runs ‘update.packages(ask="graphics", checkBuilt=TRUE)’.

• ‘R CMD INSTALL’ preserves the package-directory modification time when it restores an earlier install of the package.

• File extensions ‘.xz’, ‘.rda’ and ‘.RData’ have been added to those which default to binary transfer for ‘download.file()’.

• ‘install.packages()’ and ‘R CMD check’ have a small delay after removing a directory to counteract some interference from anti-virus software.

2.14.0 INSTALLATION (Windows)

• Compilation of C and Fortran code now uses the optimization flag ‘-mtune=core2’: this will improve performance a few percent on recent CPUs at the expense of those which are several years old. Its effect is particularly evident on 64-bit builds.

  This can be overridden when building from the sources: see the ‘EOPTS’ macro defined in file ‘MkRules.dist’.

• Where both 32- and 64-bit versions of R are installed, the file association for @file.RData files defaults to 64-bit R (it defaulted to 32-bit in R 2.12.x and 2.13.x).

• There is preliminary support for ‘multilib’ toolchains which use options ‘--m32’ or ‘--m64’ to select the architecture; set the appropriate macros in ‘MkRules.local’.

  It is the intention to move to such a toolchain when they become mature enough.

2.14.0 PACKAGE INSTALLATION (Windows)

• ‘Rzlib.dll’ (sometimes used in packages _via_ ‘$(ZLIB_LIBS)’) does not include the buggy gzio interface from zlib 1.2.5.

2.14.0 DEFUNCT (Windows)

• zip.unpack() (deprecated in R 2.13.0) is defunct: use ‘unzip()’ instead.