I've put up R-0.63.3.tgz up for FTP from Auckland some minutes ago.
As usual, don't get it from there unless you are desperate, but wait
for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site near you within a day or two.
For those who *are* desperate, I've left a copy in
ftp://blueberry.kubism.ku.dk/pub/R-devel/R-0.63.3.tgz
(Be gentle, that's my desktop PC!)
There's also a version split in two for floppies and a patch file if
you prefer that.
A special <mumble> with the patch file this time is that some binary
Java .class files got changed and can NOT be patched in. They are
provided separately in R-0.63.3-javaclass.tgz (to be unpacked in
../doc/html/search ).
We've been fairly active trying to eradicate a lot of minor bugs this
time, although a couple of nontrivial ones still remain. The next
version is likely to be 0.64.0, with Macintosh and Gnome support as
the major new features.
For the R Core Team,
Peter D.
Here is the relevant part of the NEWS file:
CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.63.3
NEW FEATURES
o get() and assign() allow position in search list to be a
character string. (e.g.
get("delete.response","package:base")
o HTML search now works for all packages (after new installation).
o R INSTALL now also copies DESCRIPTION file to target dir.
o offsets should work with lm as well as with glm now
o range() is now in the Summary group, trunc() back in the Math
group.
o Under Unix, R-specific environment variables can now be kept/set
in `~/.Renviron'.
o New options `latexcmd' and `dvipscmd' for specifying the locations
of LaTeX and dvips; corresponding environment variables renamed to
`R_LATEXCMD' and `R_DVIPSCMD'.
o --vsize & --nsize now both give size in "single units"
(bytes/cons cells) with possible
suffixes "M" (Mega), "K"ilo (1024) and
"k"ilo(1000).
o [pdqr]negbin() now also work with non-integer 'size' [by Ben
Bolker].
o New standard package `lqs' for resistant regression and
covariance estimation, contributed by B. D. Ripley.
o new functions match.fun() and kronecker() [by Jonathan Rougier]
o par(las = 3) is a new option.
o new function jitter() [slightly more useful than S's].
BUG FIXES
o system(command, intern=FALSE, ignore.errors=FALSE)
changed 1st & 3rd argument names and is better documented.
o "/Font5 /Symbol findfont definefont" confused some printers
o Bounding box rotated 90 deg for landscape (shouldn't be)
o Legend skipped symbol for pch=0
o compilation on non-Intel Linux systems no longer looks for __setfpucw
o a %% b -- is now periodic instead of symmetric; more S compatible.
o locator(n=512) -- default: MANY points, not just one.
o qqnorm() uses ppoints() and returns list with x sorted along y.
o plot.formula now allows ylab to be set
o plotmath had trouble with paste()'ing expressions
o plotting math expressions now also works for objects of mode
"call" (in particular on the result of substitute())
o locator() on log axes: value antilogged twice
o (a real oldie - and trival too) is.recursive now TRUE for
expressions
o sanitised delete.response
o x[["a",]] could crash R
o strwidth() crashed R if no device open
o predict inconsistencies with offsets straightened out
o tapply goofed when FUN returned named scalar
o [.factor now retains contrasts attrib.
o hist() had trouble with plotting math
o HTML indices get only built when installing a package to RHOME
o subscripting with a length zero logical no longer bombs.
o as.ordered(NULL) now returns an "ordered" object.
o --debugger .. now gives a warning if other command line args are used
o pt(t, df, ncp) now also works for bigger ncp's
o apply(a,d, fun) now passes vectors (rank 1 arrays) to fun.
o model.frame() with subset and only one column fixed
o boxplot(<data.frame>) now works again.
o dyn.load(..) failing gives more informative error message.
o Ops.factor: not error, but a warning + NAs
o bug.report() keeps report file if can't be e-mailed
o Ops.data.frame : things like d.fr < a now return a matrix
o data.frame(): duplicated row.names now give a warning when dropped.
o boxplot(.., ylim=..) or (.., axes=..) gave erronous warning
o glm had wrong init code for models with offsets. Also fixed
so that linear predictor includes offset, also when predicting.
o predict.glm didn't work with se=T
o backsolve(), qr.solve... now return a vector when x (or y) is a vector.
o string tags now converted to symbols and strange symbolic
tags print as strings, cf. e<-quote(c(F=2, "tail area" = .5)),
etc.
o row.names(.) <- val doesn't allow duplicated values anymore.
o library(mva)'s dist() now works with both "euclidean" &
"euclidian"
o revised curve function to avoid using grep patterns that caused
problems under Solaris 2.6
o coplot() now has 'number' and 'overlap' arguments, and
should work
in more situations. [by John Maindonald and MM].
o save(..ascii=TRUE) now uses "full precision" for numerics.
o as.array() preserves names()
o outer() works for general array args and preserves (dim)names.
o print.factor and print.ordered now return their args invisibly.
--
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c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N
(*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918
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