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On Windows there is support for making ‘.texi’ manuals using ‘texinfo’ 5.0 or later: the setting is in file ‘src/gnuwin32/MkRules.dist’.
A packaging of the Perl script and modules for ‘texinfo’ 5.2 has been made available at <URL: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/>.
‘write.table()’ now handles matrices of 2^31 or more elements, for those with large amounts of patience and disc space.
There is a new function, ‘La_version()’, to report the version of LAPACK in use.
The HTML version of ‘An Introduction to R’ now has links to PNG versions of the figures.
There is some support to produce manuals in ebook formats. (See ‘doc/manual/Makefile’. Suggested by Mauro Cavalcanti.)
On a Unix-alike ‘Sys.timezone()’ returns ‘NA’ if the environment variable ‘TZ’ is unset, to distinguish it from an empty string which on some OSes means the ‘UTC’ time zone.
The backtick may now be escaped in strings, to allow names containing them to be constructed, e.g. ‘`\``’. (PR#15621)
‘read.table()’, ‘readLines()’ and ‘scan()’ now warn when an embedded nul is found in the input. (Related to PR#15625 which was puzzled by the behaviour in this unsupported case.)
(Windows only.) ‘file.symlink()’ works around the undocumented restriction of the Windows system call to backslashes. (Wish of PR#15631.)
‘KalmanForecast(fast = FALSE)’ is now the default, and the help contains an example of how ‘fast = TRUE’ can be used in this version. (The usage will change in 3.1.0.)
‘strptime()’ now checks the locale only when locale-specific formats are used and caches the locale in use: this can halve the time taken on OSes with slow system functions (e.g. OS X).
‘strptime()’ and the ‘format()’ methods for classes ‘"POSIXct"’, ‘"POSIXlt"’ and ‘"Date"’ recognize strings with marked encodings: this allows, for example, UTF-8 French month names to be read on (French) Windows.
‘iconv(to = "utf8")’ is now accepted on all platforms (some implementations did already, but GNU ‘libiconv’ did not: however converted strings were not marked as being in UTF-8). The official name, ‘"UTF-8"’ is still preferred.
‘available.packages()’ is better protected against corrupt metadata files. (A recurring problem with Debian package ‘shogun-r’: PR#14713.)
Finalizers are marked to be run at garbage collection, but run only at a somewhat safer later time (when interrupts are checked). This circumvents some problems with finalizers running arbitrary code during garbage collection (the known instances being running ‘options()’ and (C-level) ‘path.expand()’ re-entrantly).
The included version of PCRE has been updated to 8.34. This fixes bugs and makes the behaviour closer to Perl 5.18. In particular, the concept of ‘space’ includes ‘VT’ and hence agrees with POSIX's.
The new field ‘SysDataCompression’ in the ‘DESCRIPTION’ file allows user control over the compression used for ‘sysdata.rda’ objects in the lazy-load database.
‘install.packages(dependencies = value)’ for ‘value = NA’ (the default) or ‘value = TRUE’ omits packages only in ‘LinkingTo’ for binary package installs.
The long undocumented remapping of ‘rround()’ to ‘Rf_fround()’ in header ‘Rmath.h’ is now formally deprecated: use ‘fround()’ directly.
Remapping of ‘prec()’ and ‘trunc()’ in the ‘Rmath.h’ header has been disabled in C++ code (it has caused breakage with ‘libc++’ headers).
‘getParseData()’ truncated the imaginary part of complex number constants. (Reported by Yihui Xie.)
‘dbeta(x, a, b)’ with ‘a’ or ‘b’ within a factor of 2 of the largest representable number could infinite-loop. (Reported by Ioannis Kosmidis.)
‘provideDimnames()’ failed for arrays with a 0 dimension. (PR#15465)
‘rbind()’ and ‘cbind()’ did not handle list objects correctly. (PR#15468)
‘replayPlot()’ now checks if it is replaying a plot from the same session.
‘rasterImage()’ and ‘grid.raster()’ now give error on an empty (zero-length) raster. (Reported by Ben North.)
‘plot.lm()’ would sometimes scramble the labels in plot type 5. (PR#15458 and PR#14837)
‘min()’ did not handle ‘NA_character_’ values properly. (Reported by Magnus Thor Torfason.)
(Windows only.) ‘readRegistry()’ would duplicate default values for keys. (PR#15455)
‘str(..., strict.width = "cut")’ did not handle it properly when more than one line needed to be cut. (Reported by Gerrit Eichner.)
Removing subclass back-references when S4 classes were removed or their namespace unloaded had several bugs (e.g., PR#15481).
‘aggregate()’ could fail when there were too many levels present in the ‘by’ argument. (PR#15004)
‘namespaceImportFrom()’ needed to detect primitive functions when checking for duplicated imports (reported by Karl Forner).
‘getGraphicsEvent()’ did not exit when a user closed the graphics window. (PR#15208)
Errors in vignettes were not always captured and displayed properly. (PR#15495)
‘contour()’ could fail when dealing with extremely small z values. (PR#15454)
Several functions did not handle zero-length vectors properly, including ‘browseEnv()’, ‘format()’, ‘gl()’, ‘relist()’ and ‘summary.data.frame()’. (E.g., PR#15499)
‘Sweave()’ did not restore the R output to the console if it was interrupted by a user in the middle of evaluating a code chunk. (Reported by Michael Sumner.)
Fake installs of packages with vignettes work again.
Illegal characters in the input caused ‘parse()’ (and thus ‘source()’) to segfault. (PR#15518)
The nonsensical use of ‘nmax = 1’ in ‘duplicated()’ or ‘unique()’ is now silently ignored.
‘qcauchy(p, *)’ is now fully accurate even when p is very close to 1. (PR#15521)
The ‘validmu()’ and ‘valideta()’ functions in the standard ‘glm()’ families now also report non-finite values, rather than failing.
Saved vignette results (in a ‘.Rout.save’ file) were not being compared to the new ones during ‘R CMD check’.
Double-clicking outside of the list box (e.g. on the scrollbar) of a Tk listbox widget generated by ‘tk_select.list()’ no longer causes the window to close. (PR#15407)
Improved handling of edge cases in ‘parallel::splitindices()’. (PR#15552)
HTML display of results from ‘help.search()’ and ‘??’ sometimes contained badly constructed links.
‘c()’ and related functions such as ‘unlist()’ converted raw vectors to invalid logical vectors. (PR#15535)
(Windows only) When a call to ‘system2()’ specified one of ‘stdin’, ‘stdout’ or ‘stderr’ to be a file, but the command was not found (e.g. it contained its arguments, or the program was not on the ‘PATH’), it left the file open and unusable until R terminated. (Reported by Mathew McLean.)
The ‘bmp()’ device was not recording ‘res = NA’ correctly: it is now recorded as 72 ppi.
Several potential problems with compiler-specific behaviour have been identified using the ‘Undefined Behaviour Sanitizer’ in conjunction with the ‘clang’ compiler.
‘hcl()’ now honours ‘NA’ inputs (previously they were mapped to black).
Some translations in base packages were being looked up in the main catalog rather than that for the package.
As a result of the 3.0.2 change about ‘the last second before the epoch’, most conversions which should have given ‘NA’ returned that time. (The platforms affected include Linux and OS X, but not Windows nor Solaris.)
‘rowsum()’ has more support for matrices and dataframes with 2^31 or more elements. (PR#15587)
‘predict(<lm object>, interval = "confidence", scale = <something>)’ now works. (PR#15564)
The bug fix in 3.0.2 for PR#15411 was too aggressive, and sometimes removed spaces that should not have been removed. (PR#15583)
Running R code in a ‘tcltk’ callback failed to set the busy flag, which will be needed to tell OS X not to ‘App Nap’.
The code for date-times before 1902 assumed that the offset from GMT in 1902 was a whole number of minutes: that was not true of Paris (as recorded on some platforms).
Using ‘Sys.setlocale’ to set ‘LC_NUMERIC’ to ‘"C"’ (to restore the sane behavior) no longer gives a warning.
‘deparse()’ now deparses complex vectors in a way that re-parses to the original values. (PR#15534, patch based on code submitted by Alex Bertram.)
In some extreme cases (more than 10^15) integer inputs to ‘dpqrxxx()’ functions might have been rounded up by one (with a warning about being non-integer). (PR#15624)
Plotting symbol ‘pch = 14’ had the triangle upside down on some devices (typically screen devices). The triangle is supposed to be point up. (Reported by Bill Venables.)
‘getSrcref()’ did not work on method definitions if ‘rematchDefinition()’ had been used.
‘KalmanForecast(fast = FALSE)’ reported a (harmless) stack imbalance.
The count of observations used by ‘KalmanRun()’ did not take missing values into account.
In locales where the abbreviated name of one month is a partial match for the full name of a later one, the ‘%B’ format in ‘strptime()’ could fail. An example was French on OS X, where ‘juin’ is abbreviated to ‘jui’ and partially matches ‘juillet’. Similarly for weekday names.
‘pbeta(x, a, b, log.p = TRUE)’ sometimes underflowed to zero for very small and very differently sized ‘a’, ‘b’. (PR#15641)
‘approx()’ and ‘approxfun()’ now handle infinite values with the ‘"constant"’ method. (PR#15655)
‘stripchart()’ again respects reversed limits in ‘xlim’ and ‘ylim’. (PR#15664)