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Fri, 26 Apr 2024

CHANGES IN R 4.4.0 patched C-LEVEL FACILITIES

• Functions ‘R_atof’ and ‘R_strtod’ declared in header ‘R_ext/Utils.h’ are now documented in ‘Writing R Extensions’ and so formally part of the API.

• The non-API entry points ‘Rf_setSVector’, ‘Rf_StringFalse’, ‘Rf_StringTrue’ and ‘Rf_isBlankString’ have been added to those reported by ‘R CMD check’.

CHANGES IN R 4.4.0 patched BUG FIXES

• ‘as.numeric()’, ‘scan()’, ‘type.convert()’ and other places which use the internal C function ‘R_strtod’ now require a _non-empty_ digit sequence in a decimal or binary exponent. This aligns with the C/POSIX standard for ‘strtod’ and with ‘?NumericConstants’.

CHANGES IN R 4.4.0 NEW FEATURES

• The licence headers for the RPC code in ‘src/extra/xdr’ have been updated to use the GPL-compatible licence published by Oracle America in 2010.

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