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A general description is here.
We set some environment variables to work around hangs in Rgui
when packages (e.g. tseries) use Fortran WRITE calls. The
Fortran output will be written to a file named 'fort.6' in the
working directory.
Browsing for a directory in choose.dir() and the Rgui
'Change Dir...' menu item now works around Vista's confusion
about 'desktop' by starting at 'Computer' on Vista/Server 2008.
The shortcuts created by the installer now start R in the user's
personal folder (typically 'My Documents' or 'Documents').
win.version() and Sys.info() know about recent and upcoming
Windows versions, including if they are running on a 64-bit
platform.
The listbox used by select.list() now responds to
double-clicking an item (as if the item had been selected and
then the OK button pressed).
The header iconv.h is now installed, and can be used by
packages in conjunction with PKG_LIBS=-liconv .
The value of "default" for the postscript() 'paper' argument for
savePlot() and the windows() graphics device menus is now
interpreted as "special" (rather than "a4" or "letter"): it
can still be overridden by setting ps.options(). (This changes
the default output to be most suitable for inclusion in other
documents rather than to produce a page for printing.)
If a graphics window was opened in MDI mode while the console
was zoomed, it would not be initialized properly.
The graphics window placement parameters on the GUI preferences
dialog were being ignored.
The text field in a drop-down list (as used in GUI preferences
for fonts) will now scroll horizontally when a user enters
text that exceeds the display width.
If Rterm is invoked as 'R', the status code (as passed to q())
is now returned (rather than 0 or 1).
The MSVC run-time (used by MinGW) has a global variable to
determine whether files default to text or binary mode. R now
overrides this setting so that files are always read in text
mode by default: this is relevant to embedded uses of R.
We set some environment variables to work around hangs in Rgui when packages (e.g. tseries) use Fortran WRITE calls. The Fortran output will be written to a file named 'fort.6' in the working directory.
Browsing for a directory in choose.dir() and the Rgui 'Change Dir...' menu item now works around Vista's confusion about 'desktop' by starting at 'Computer' on Vista/Server 2008.
The shortcuts created by the installer now start R in the user's personal folder (typically 'My Documents' or 'Documents').
win.version() and Sys.info() know about recent and upcoming Windows versions, including if they are running on a 64-bit platform.
The listbox used by select.list() now responds to double-clicking an item (as if the item had been selected and then the OK button pressed).
The header iconv.h is now installed, and can be used by packages in conjunction with PKG_LIBS=-liconv .
The value of "default" for the postscript() 'paper' argument for savePlot() and the windows() graphics device menus is now interpreted as "special" (rather than "a4" or "letter"): it can still be overridden by setting ps.options(). (This changes the default output to be most suitable for inclusion in other documents rather than to produce a page for printing.)
If a graphics window was opened in MDI mode while the console was zoomed, it would not be initialized properly.
The graphics window placement parameters on the GUI preferences dialog were being ignored.
The text field in a drop-down list (as used in GUI preferences for fonts) will now scroll horizontally when a user enters text that exceeds the display width.
If Rterm is invoked as 'R', the status code (as passed to q()) is now returned (rather than 0 or 1).
The MSVC run-time (used by MinGW) has a global variable to determine whether files default to text or binary mode. R now overrides this setting so that files are always read in text mode by default: this is relevant to embedded uses of R.