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The default detection of the shell variable ‘libNN’ is overridden for derivatives of Debian Linux, some of which have started to have a ‘/usr/lib64’ directory. (E.g. Ubuntu 19.04.) As before, it can be specified in ‘config.site’.
‘R CMD config’ knows the values of ‘AR’ and ‘RANLIB’, often set for LTO builds.
The use of a character vector with ‘.Fortran()’ is formally deprecated and gives a non-portability warning. (It has long been strongly discouraged in ‘Writing R Extensions’.)
On Windows, GUI package installation via ‘menuInstallPkgs()’ works again, thanks to Len Weil's and Duncan Murdoch's PR#17556.
‘R CMD check’ on ‘data()’ fixing PR#17558 thanks to Duncan Murdoch.
‘quasi(*, variance = list(..))’ now works more efficiently, and should work in all cases fixing PR#17560. Further, ‘quasi(var = mu(1-mu))’ and ‘quasi(var = "mu ^ 3")’ now work, and ‘quasi(variance = "log(mu)")’ now gives a correct error message.
Creation of lazy loading database during package installation is again robust to Rprofile changing the current working directory (PR#17559).
‘boxplot(y ~ f, horizontal=TRUE)’ now produces correct x- and y-labels.
‘rbind.data.frame()’ allows to keep ‘<NA>’ levels from factor columns (PR#17562) via new option ‘factor.exclude’.
Additionally, it works in one more case with matrix-columns which had been reported on 2017-01-16 by Krzysztof Banas.
Correct messaging in C++ pragma checks in ‘tools’ code for ‘R CMD check’, fixing PR#17566 thanks to Xavier Robin.
print()ing and auto-printing no longer differs for ‘function’s with a user defined ‘print.function’, thanks to Bill Dunlap's report.
On Windows, ‘writeClipboard(.., format = <n>)’ now does correctly pass ‘format’ to the underlying C code, thanks to a bug report (with patch) by Jenny Bryan.
‘as.data.frame()’ treats 1D arrays the same as vectors, PR#17570.
Improvements in ‘smoothEnds(x, *)’ working with ‘NA’s (towards ‘runmed()’ working in that case, in the next version of R).
‘vcov(glm(<quasi>), dispersion = *)’ works correctly again, fixing PR#17571 thanks to Pavel Krivitsky.
‘R CMD INSTALL’ of binary packages on Windows now works also with per-directory locking.
‘R CMD INSTALL’ and ‘install.packages()’ on Windows are now more robust against a locked file in an earlier installation of the package to be installed. The default value of option ‘install.lock’ on Windows has been changed to ‘TRUE’.
On Unix alikes (when ‘readline’ is active), only expand tilde (‘~’) file names starting with a tilde, instead of almost all tildes.
In R documentation (‘*.Rd’) files, ‘\item [..]’ is no longer treated specially when rendered in LaTeX and hence pdf, but rather shows the brackets in all cases.