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Fri, 31 Jul 2026

Changes in R-devel New Features

• New higher-order functions ‘Compose()’, ‘Funcall()’ and ‘Partial()’.

• New functions ‘find_calls()’, ‘find_calls_in_package_code()’, ‘gsub_with_transformed_matches()’ and ‘system_with_capture()’ in package ‘tools’.

Changes in R-devel Bug Fixes

• Fix segfault in ‘postscript()’ and ‘pdf()’ if set ‘papersize’ option to very long string (PR#19108). Thanks to Kevin Ushey.

• Fix segfault in ‘grid::gpar()’ if set ‘fontfamily’ longer than 200 characters (PR#19107). Thanks to Kevin Ushey.

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