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File ‘share/texmf/tex/latex/jss.cls’ has been updated to work with LaTeX versions since Oct 2020.
Unicode character width tables (as used by ‘nchar(, type = "w")’) have been updated to Unicode 12.1 by Brodie Gaslam (PR#17781), including many emoji.
The internal table for ‘iswprint’ (used on Windows, macOS and AIX) has been updated to include many recent Unicode characters.
If an external BLAS is specified by ‘--with-blas=foo’ or _via_ environment variable ‘BLAS_LIBS’ is not found, this is now a configuration error. The previous behaviour was not clear from the documentation: it was to continue the search as if ‘--with-blas=yes’ was specified.
‘all.equal(x,y)’ now “sees” the two different ‘NA’s in factors, thanks to Bill Dunlap and others in PR#17897.
‘(~ NULL)[1]’ and similar formula subsetting now works, thanks to a report and patch by Henrik Bengtsson in PR#17935. Additionally, subsetting leaving an empty formula now works too, thanks to suggestions by Suharto Anggono.
‘.traceback(n)’ keeps source references again, as before R 4.0.0, fixing a regression; introduced by the PR#17580, reported including two patch proposals by Brodie Gaslam.
‘unlist(plst, recursive=FALSE)’ no longer drops content for pairlists with list components, thanks to the report and patch by Suharto Anggono in PR#17950.
‘iconvlist()’ now also works on MUSL based (Linux) systems, from a report and patch suggestion by Wesley Chan in PR#17970.
‘round()’ and ‘signif()’ no longer tolerate wrong argument names, notably in 1-argument calls; reported by Shane Mueller on R-devel (mailing list); later reported as PR#17976.
‘.Machine’ has ‘longdouble.*’ elements only if ‘capabilities("long.double")’ is true, as documented. (Previously they were included if the platform had ‘long double’ identical to ‘double’, as ARM does.)
‘p.adjust(numeric(), n=0)’ now works, fixing PR#18002.
‘identical(x,y)’ no longer prints "Unknown Type .." for ‘typeof(x) == "..."’ objects.
Fix (auto-)‘print()’ing of named complex vectors, see PR#17868 and PR#18019.
‘all.equal(<language>, <...>)’ now works, fixing PR#18029.
‘as.data.frame.list(L, row.names=NULL)’ now behaves in line with ‘data.frame()’, disregarding names of components of ‘L’, fixing PR#18034, reported by Kevin Tappe.
‘checkRdaFiles(ff)$version’ is now correct also when ‘ff’ contains files of different versions, thanks to a report and patch from Sebastian Meyer in PR#18041.