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The Java-based search in help.start() now only requires a JVM >= 1.4 (2.6.1 accidentally required >= 1.5).
by() fails for 1-column matrices and dataframes. (PR#10505)
The default method for range() was omitting na.rm for non-numeric objects such as those of class "Date". (PR#10508)