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Thu, 02 Apr 2026

Changes in R-devel C-Level Facilities

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Changes in R 4.6.0 New Features

• New function ‘messageCondition()’ to create structured ‘"message"’ objects analogous to ‘warningCondition()’ and ‘errorCondition()’ (PR#18940, by Trevor Davis).

Changes in R 4.6.0 Bug Fixes

• The internal ‘cwilcox’ function used in computations for the Wilcoxon distribution is now based on an implementation of a formula by Andreas Löffler provided by Andreas Löffler, Aidan Lakshman, and Ivan Krylov, substantially reducing the memory complexity of the original implementation (PR#18655).

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