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Environment variable ‘_R_CHECK_XREFS_REPOSITORIES_’ is only used for checking ‘.Rd’ cross-references in ‘R CMD check’ (as documented) and not for other uses looking for a CRAN mirror.
‘sort(x, partial = ind, *)’ no works correctly notably for the non-default ‘na.last = FALSE’ or ‘TRUE’, fixing PR#18335, reported by James Edwards.