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The ‘import()’ namespace directive now accepts an argument ‘except’ which names symbols to exclude from the imports. The ‘except’ expression should evaluate to a character vector (after substituting symbols for strings). See Writing R Extensions.
‘install.packages()’ could give false errors when ‘options("pkgType")’ was ‘"binary"’. (Reported by Jose Claudio Faria.)