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‘AIC.default’ and ‘BIC.default’ now checks whether the ‘methods’ namespace is loaded rather than ‘stats4’. It still uses ‘stats4::logLik’ and ‘stats4::nobs’, but packages no longer need to load ‘stats4’ explicitly.
‘confint.default’ now also works on S4 objects, as long as they have ‘coef()’ and ‘vcov()’ generics.
New function ‘R_eval_with_gd()’ designed to “lock” a graphics device during call to ‘eval()’ within device drawing routines. External _on-screen_ graphics devices should consider using this function to avoid crashes from the device being closed by the user (e.g., a mouse click) during drawing.
New functions ‘GEcreateDD()’ and ‘GEfreeDD()’ for allocating (and initialising) ‘DevDesc’ structures. Can be used by external graphics devices. Satisfies PR#18292.