The build system rolled up R-3.6.1.tar.gz (codename "Action of the Toes") this morning. The list below details the changes in this release. You can get the source code from http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.6.1.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. 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(E.g. Ubuntu 19.04.) As before, it can be specified in config.site. UTILITIES: * R CMD config knows the values of AR and RANLIB, often set for LTO builds. DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT: * The use of a character vector with .Fortran() is formally deprecated and gives a non-portability warning. (It has long been strongly discouraged in 'Writing R Extensions'.) BUG FIXES: * On Windows, GUI package installation via menuInstallPkgs() works again, thanks to Len Weil's and Duncan Murdoch's PR#17556. * R CMD check on data() fixing PR#17558 thanks to Duncan Murdoch. * quasi(*, variance = list(..)) now works more efficiently, and should work in all cases fixing PR#17560. Further, quasi(var mu(1-mu)) and quasi(var = "mu ^ 3") now work, and quasi(variance = "log(mu)") now gives a correct error message. * Creation of lazy loading database during package installation is again robust to Rprofile changing the current working directory (PR#17559). * boxplot(y ~ f, horizontal=TRUE) now produces correct x- and y-labels. * rbind.data.frame() allows to keep <NA> levels from factor columns (PR#17562) via new option factor.exclude. Additionally, it works in one more case with matrix-columns which had been reported on 2017-01-16 by Krzysztof Banas. * Correct messaging in C++ pragma checks in tools code for R CMD check, fixing PR#17566 thanks to Xavier Robin. * print()ing and auto-printing no longer differs for functions with a user defined print.function, thanks to Bill Dunlap's report. * On Windows, writeClipboard(.., format = <n>) now does correctly pass format to the underlying C code, thanks to a bug report (with patch) by Jenny Bryan. * as.data.frame() treats 1D arrays the same as vectors, PR#17570. * Improvements in smoothEnds(x, *) working with NAs (towards runmed() working in that case, in the next version of R). * vcov(glm(<quasi>), dispersion = *) works correctly again, fixing PR#17571 thanks to Pavel Krivitsky. * R CMD INSTALL of binary packages on Windows now works also with per-directory locking. * R CMD INSTALL and install.packages() on Windows are now more robust against a locked file in an earlier installation of the package to be installed. The default value of option install.lock on Windows has been changed to TRUE. * On Unix alikes (when readline is active), only expand tilde (~) file names starting with a tilde, instead of almost all tildes. * In R documentation (*.Rd) files, \item [..] is no longer treated specially when rendered in LaTeX and hence pdf, but rather shows the brackets in all cases. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 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