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The predict() method for prcomp() had an incorrect check for the number of columns of 'newdata' if the columns were not named.
pdf() and postscript() were not working correctly in 2.7.0 with UTF-8 encoded data in a non-UTF-8 MBCS (e.g. EUC-JP on Unix, CJK locales on Windows).