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Fri, 14 Jan 2022

CHANGES IN R-devel GRAPHICS

• ‘par()’ now warns about unnamed non-character arguments to prevent misuse such as ‘{usr <- par("usr"); par(usr)}’.

CHANGES IN R-devel C-LEVEL FACILITIES

• ‘R_Calloc’, ‘R_Free’ and ‘R_Realloc’ are preferred to their unprefixed forms and error messages now use the prefix. These forms were introduced in R 3.4.0 and are available even when ‘STRICT_R_HEADERS’ is defined.

• The legacy S-compatibility macros ‘DOUBLE_*’ in ‘R_ext/Constants.h’ (included by ‘R.h’) are deprecated.

CHANGES IN R-devel BUG FIXES

• ‘txtProgressBar()’ now enforces a non-zero width for argument ‘char’, without which no progress can be visible.

CHANGES IN R 4.1.2 patched C-LEVEL FACILITIES

• The legacy S-compatibility macros ‘SINGLE_*’ in ‘R_ext/Constants.h’ (included by ‘R.h’) are deprecated and will be removed in due course.

CHANGES IN R 4.1.2 patched BUG FIXES

• Unregistering ‘globalCallingHandlers’ inside ‘withCallingHandlers()’ now works, thanks to Henrik Bengtsson's PR#18275.

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