R devel - Apr 2002 - Updating packages for the upcoming R 1.5.0

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You probably know that R 1.5.0 goes into feature freeze on Monday and is
scheduled for release on April 29th.

There are a number of changes that affect packages: a few are actual
changes, many are stricter enforcement of the existing interface and some
are opportunities for (considerable) performance improvements.

We have placed a write-up `150update.txt' on
http://developer.r-project.org that we will continue to update as features
are added or we gain experience.  For your convenience, the current
version is attached.

A number of packages have already been updated, and you will find these in
the src/contrib/1.5.0 section on CRAN.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

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