Daily News about R-2-9-branch/CHANGES

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Thu, 13 Aug 2009

2.9.1 patched NEW FEATURES (Windows)

• The --internet2 command line option sets a flag internally; that flag is now visible and controllable from R using the setInternet2() function.

• file.access() proved unreliable on some network-mounted file systems (probably a Samba issue), so it has been replaced in R CMD INSTALL by a directory creation test. (Reported by Simon Urbanek and Ruth Ripley.)

2.9.1 patched BUG FIXES (Windows)

• Topics marked as "internal" in help files were not visible from CHM help.

2.9.2 NEW FEATURES (Windows)

• The --internet2 command line option sets a flag internally; that flag is now visible and controllable from R using the setInternet2() function.

• file.access() proved unreliable on some network-mounted file systems (probably a Samba issue), so it has been replaced in R CMD INSTALL by a directory creation test. (Reported by Simon Urbanek and Ruth Ripley.)

2.9.2 BUG FIXES (Windows)

• Topics marked as "internal" in help files were not visible from CHM help.

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