Daily News about R-4-0-branch/NEWS

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Sat, 28 Mar 2020

CHANGES IN 4.0.0 NEW FEATURES

• New ‘classes’ argument for ‘suppressWarnings()’ and ‘suppressMessages()’ to selectively suppress only warnings or messages that inherit from particular classes. Based on patch from Lionel Henry submitted with PR#17619.

CHANGES IN 4.0.0 INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE

• New make target ‘distcheck’ checks

  • R can be rebuilt from the tarball created by ‘make dist’,

  • the build from the tarball passes ‘make check-all’,

  • the build installs and uninstalls,

  • the source files are properly cleaned by ‘make distclean’.

CHANGES IN 4.0.0 BUG FIXES

• ‘socketConnection(server = FALSE)’ now respects the connection timeout also on Linux.

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