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Sat, 27 Jul 2013

CHANGES IN R 3.0.1 patched PACKAGE INSTALLATION

• ‘R CMD INSTALL’ has a new option ‘--no-byte-compile’ which will override a ‘ByteCompile’ field in the package's ‘DESCRIPTION’ file.

• License ‘BSD’ is deprecated: use ‘BSD_3_clause’ or ‘BSD_2_clause’ instead.

  License ‘X11’ is deprecated: use ‘MIT’ or ‘BSD_2_clause’ instead.

CHANGES IN R 3.0.1 patched C-LEVEL FACILITIES

• ‘eval’ and ‘applyClosure’ qre now protected against package code supplying an invalid ‘rho’.

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