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

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Sun, 22 Mar 2009

2.9.0 NEW FEATURES

• unlink() is now able to remove broken symbolic links on Unix-alikes.

2.9.0 DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT

• R CMD SHLIB on Windows will call the first target (not 'all') in Makevars[.win] in future versions: so make 'all' the first target if you have any.

2.9.0 UTILITIES

• R CMD SHLIB now calls the makefiles with target 'all' on all platforms, not just on Windows: this is only relevant when a Makevars[.win] is used that contains targets (not in general recommended): for backwrds compatibility the first target should be named 'allFor R CMD SHLIB on Windows the default 'all' target only makes the DLL, and no longer call targets 'before' and 'after'.

2.8.1 patched NEW FEATURES

• The compiled loess() code hads been updated to the current version of dloess from Netlib. This includes patches from Ben Tyner which correct some errors when degree = 0 and hence solve PR#13570.

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