The byte pixies have rolled up R-2.13.2.tar.gz at 9:00 this morning. This is intended to be the final release of the 2.13 series, for the benefit of those apprehensive of putting 2.14.x into production use. The run-in for 2.14.0 starts on Monday, with a planned release on Oct 31 (The Great Pumpkin Man Release). You can get it from http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.13.2.tar.gz or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you. Binaries for various platforms will appear in due course. For the R Core Team Peter Dalgaard These are the md5sums for the freshly created files, in case you wish to check that they are uncorrupted: MD5 (AUTHORS) = cbf6da8f886ccd8d0dda0cc7ffd1b8ec MD5 (COPYING) = eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a MD5 (COPYING.LIB) = a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343 MD5 (FAQ) = 9313f40d1614e33bb2872dcdf09bdf1b MD5 (INSTALL) = 70447ae7f2c35233d3065b004aa4f331 MD5 (NEWS) = af38550b8f19f81357158effdbc44fc3 MD5 (NEWS.html) = 2c0741963f34888f5095225217e51666 MD5 (ONEWS) = 0c3e10eef74439786e5fceddd06dac71 MD5 (OONEWS) = b0d650eba25fc5664980528c147a20db MD5 (R-latest.tar.gz) = fbad74f6415385f86425d0f3968dd684 MD5 (README) = 296871fcf14f49787910c57b92655c76 MD5 (RESOURCES) = 020479f381d5f9038dcb18708997f5da MD5 (THANKS) = 159efc7bd4ae7b23dda07c1d431657bc MD5 (R-2/R-2.13.2.tar.gz) = fbad74f6415385f86425d0f3968dd684 This is the relevant part of the NEWS file: CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.13.2: NEW FEATURES: o mem.limits() now reports values larger than the maximum integer (previously documented to be reported as NA), and allows larger values to be set, including Inf to remove the limit. o The print() methods for classes "Date", "POSIXct" and "POSIXlt" respect the option "max.print" and so are much faster for very long datetime vectors. (Suggestion of Yohan Chalabi.) o untar2() now works around errors generated with tar files that use more than the standard 6 digits for the checksum. (https://bugs.R-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14654PR#14654) o install.packages() with Ncpus > 1 guards against simultaneous installation of indirect dependencies as well as direct ones. o Sweave now knows about a few more Windows' encodings (including cp1250 and cp1257) and some inputenx encodings such as koi8-r. o postscript(colormodel = "rgb-nogray") no longer sets the sRGB colorspace for each colour and so some viewers may render its files much faster than the default colormodel ="rgb". o The default for pdf(maxRasters=) has been increased from 64 to 1000. o readBin() now warns if signed = FALSE is used inappropriately (rather than being silently ignored). It enforces the documented limit of 2^31-1 bytes in a single call. o PCRE has been updated to version 8.13, a bug-fix release with updated Unicode tables (version 6.0.0). An additional patch (r611 from PCRE 8.20-to-be) has been added to fix a collation symbol recognition issue. INSTALLATION: o It is possible to build in src/extra/xdr on more platforms. (Needed since glibc 2.14 hides its RPC implementation.) o configure will find the Sun TI-RPC implementation of xdr (in libtirpc) provided its header files are in the search path: see the 'R Installation and Administration Manual'. PACKAGE INSTALLATION: o Using a broad exportPattern directive in a NAMESPACE file is no longer allowed to export internal objects such as .onLoad and .__S3MethodsTable__. . These are also excluded from imports, along with .First.lib. BUG FIXES: o fisher.test() had a buglet: If arguments were factors with unused levels, levels were dropped and you would get an error saying that there should be at least two levels, inconsistently with pre-tabulated data. (Reported by Michael Fay). o package.skeleton() will no longer dump S4 objects supplied directly rather than in a code file. These cannot be restored correctly from the dumped version. o Build-time expressions in help files did not have access to functions in the package being built (with R CMD build). o Because quote() did not mark its result as being in use, modification of the result could in some circumstances modify the original call. o Plotting pch = '.' now guarantees at least a one-pixel dot if cex > 0. o The very-rarely-used command-line option --max-vsize was incorrectly interpreted as a number of Vcells and not in bytes as documented. (Spotted by Christophe Rhodes.) o The HTML generated by Rd2HTML() comes closer to being standards compliant. o filter(x, recursive = TRUE) gave incorrect results on a series containing NAs. (Spotted by Bill Dunlap.) o Profiling stats::mle() fits with a fixed parameter was not supported. (https://bugs.R-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14646PR#14646) o retracemem() was still using positional matching. (https://bugs.R-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14650PR#14650) o The quantile method for "ecdf" objects now works and is documented. o xtabs(~ .., ..., sparse=TRUE) now also works together with an exclude = .. specification. o decompose() computed an incorrect seasonal component for time series with odd frequencies. o The pdf() device only includes the definition of the sRGB colorspace in the output file for the "rgb" colormodel (and not for "gray" nor "cmyk"): this saves ca 9KB in the output file. o .hasSlot() wrongly gave FALSE in some cases. o Sweave() with keep.source=TRUE could generate spurious NA lines when a chunk reference appeared last in a code chunk. o \Sexpr[results=rd] in an .Rd file now first tries parse_Rd(fragment=FALSE) to allow Rd section-level macros to be inserted. o The print() method for class "summary.aov" did not pass on arguments such as signif.stars when summary() was called on a single object. (https://bugs.R-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14684PR#14684) o In rare cases ks.test() could return a p-value very slightly less than 0 by rounding error. (https://bugs.R-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14671PR#14671) o If trunc() was called on a "POSIXlt" vector and the result was subsetted, all but the first element was converted to NA. (https://bugs.R-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14679PR#14679) o cbind() and rbind() could cause memory corruption when used on a combination of raw and logical/integer vectors. -- Peter Dalgaard Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com _______________________________________________ R-announce at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-announce