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Fri, 08 Nov 2024

CHANGES IN R-devel C-LEVEL FACILITIES

• The functions ‘R_strtod’ and ‘R_atof’ now allow hexadecimal constants without an exponent, for compatibility with their C99 versions (PR#18805).

CHANGES IN R-devel BUG FIXES

• The parser now accepts hexadecimal constants with a decimal point without an exponent (taken as ‘p0’) as documented in ‘?NumericConstants’ (PR#18819).

CHANGES IN R 4.4.2 patched BUG FIXES

• Fixed URLs of the sun spots (‘sunspot.month’ etc) data sets and mention future changes due to recalibration.

• ‘kappa(A, exact=TRUE)’ for singular ‘A’ returns ‘Inf’ more generally, fixing PR#18817 reported by Mikael Jagan.

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