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A general description is here.
The macros used for the texinfo manuals have been changed to work better with the incompatible changes made in ‘texinfo 5.x’.
The included version of PCRE has been updated to 8.33.
The included version of ‘zlib’ has been updated to 1.2.8, a bug-fix release.
The included version of xz utils's ‘liblzma’ has been updated to 5.0.5.
Since ‘javareconf’ (see above) is used when R is installed, a stable link for ‘JAVA_HOME’ can be supplied then.
The macros used for the texinfo manuals have been changed to work
better with the incompatible changes made in texinfo 5.x.
The included version of PCRE has been updated to 8.33.
The included version of ‘zlib’ has been updated to 1.2.8, a bug-fix
release.
The included version of xz utils's ‘liblzma’ has been updated to 5.0.5.
‘R CMD javareconf’ now supports the use of symbolic links for ‘JAVA_HOME’ on platforms which have ‘realpath’. So it is now possible to use
R CMD javareconf JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0
on a Linux system and record that value rather than the frequently-changing full path such as ‘/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.25.x86_64’.
‘An Introduction to R’ has a new chapter on using R as a scripting language including interacting with the OS.