R announce - Feb 2000 - R-0.99.0 bugfixes available

A couple of bugs turned up immediately after the release, one of them
causing nasty memory corruption when strsplit() was used.

Therefore, a set of patches has been supplied on

ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/R/src/base/R-0.99.0-fixes.gz  

and the rest of CRAN should soon follow. The recipe for patching is
(GNU patch assumed)

gunzip -dc R-0.99.0-fixes.gz | patch -p 1

For those with broken patch programs or fast connections, there is
also a patched distribution in

ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/R/src/base/R-0.99.0a.tgz


Files patched:

uncmin.c --> demo(nlm) bug
character.c --> strsplit/devPS memory corruption
printutils.c --> va_list trouble
devGTK.c --> gnome/plotmath fix 
edit.R --> couldn't edit character vectors


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I am not sure who to ask about this:
Is my example with strsplit going to continue giving the same answer,
that is "" "" instead of character(0) as it did in .90.1 and
previous
so that I leave the "bugfix" in my libraries that I put in yesterday?
  Jim
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