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The minimum ‘autoconf’ requirement for a maintainer build has been increased to ‘autoconf’ 2.71.
It is intended to increase this to 2.72 once that becomes widely available: the distributed ‘configure’ file was generated using 2.72.
In Rd examples, code following the closing brace of a \dontrun, \dontshow or \donttest tag on the same line is no longer skipped when ‘R CMD check’ runs the examples.