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‘match.call()’ gains an ‘envir’ argument for specifying the environment from which to retrieve the ‘...’ in the call, if any; this environment was wrong (or at least undesirable) when the ‘definition’ argument was a function.
Work on progress on optional use of ‘libcurl’ for Internet access:
• ‘capabilities("libcurl")’ reports if this is available.
• ‘curlVersion()’ reports the version in use, and other details.
‘R CMD INSTALL’ gets option ‘--built-timestamp=STAMP’ allowing 100% reproducible package building, thanks to Dirk Eddelbuettel.
‘eigen(m)’ now defaults to ‘symmetric=TRUE’ even when the dimnames are asymmetric if the matrix is otherwise symmetric; PR#16151.
New function ‘pcre_config()’ to report on some of the configuration options of the version of PCRE in use. In particular, this reports if regular expressions using ‘\p{xx}’ are supported.