The build system rolled up R-4.0.4.tar.gz (codename "Lost Library Book") this morning. The list below details the changes in this release. You can get the source code from https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.0.4.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 checksums (md5 and SHA-256) for the freshly created files, in case you wish to check that they are uncorrupted: MD5 (AUTHORS) = b9c44f9f78cab3184ad9898bebc854b4 MD5 (COPYING) = eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a MD5 (COPYING.LIB) = a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343 MD5 (FAQ) = a5596520508b8749aa18baea2cf8ff80 MD5 (INSTALL) = 7893f754308ca31f1ccf62055090ad7b MD5 (NEWS) = eeb2d15f39e0a38935de2c419b4263f7 MD5 (NEWS.0) = bfcd7c147251b5474d96848c6f57e5a8 MD5 (NEWS.1) = eb78c4d053ec9c32b815cf0c2ebea801 MD5 (NEWS.2) = 496062c138e2def06cebccddfb814ac6 MD5 (NEWS.3) = 012e7f4a80cc8ec947bf3f0ff6117ec8 MD5 (R-latest.tar.gz) = e205f000947f99eeba0fb6311bd61970 MD5 (README) = f468f281c919665e276a1b691decbbe6 MD5 (RESOURCES) = 529223fd3ffef95731d0a87353108435 MD5 (THANKS) = 251d20510bfc3cc93b82c5a99f7efcc6 MD5 (VERSION-INFO.dcf) = 6a5ad95f3b708ce0dc19bab8bbfc3bc0 MD5 (R-4/R-4.0.4.tar.gz) = e205f000947f99eeba0fb6311bd61970 2cde824a7b18958e5f06b391c801c8288be0f84fa8934b7ddefef23c67e60c09 AUTHORS e6d6a009505e345fe949e1310334fcb0747f28dae2856759de102ab66b722cb4 COPYING 6095e9ffa777dd22839f7801aa845b31c9ed07f3d6bf8a26dc5d2dec8ccc0ef3 COPYING.LIB e9783551b3724b368a42c1300a8e5795ae84add34823c4eb9d8054a0e76f592c FAQ f87461be6cbaecc4dce44ac58e5bd52364b0491ccdadaf846cb9b452e9550f31 INSTALL 2227d48d78c4d70d07c367ecd4c5ba60a04a699ed0391fabac3da6edffdaa5db NEWS 4e21b62f515b749f80997063fceab626d7258c7d650e81a662ba8e0640f12f62 NEWS.0 12b30c724117b1b2b11484673906a6dcd48a361f69fc420b36194f9218692d01 NEWS.1 e80de410c77f05ff2012fa70051b89119845f734a7fa5c55857e61e4ed7d5f6e NEWS.2 7201d139947afa52b5e09d26dc01445edf444506264355b2185122bc1ed3dce0 NEWS.3 523f27d69744a08c8f0bd5e1e6c3d89a4db29ed983388ba70963a3cd3a4a802e R-latest.tar.gz 2fdd3e90f23f32692d4b3a0c0452f2c219a10882033d1774f8cadf25886c3ddc README 408737572ecc6e1135fdb2cf7a9dbb1a6cb27967c757f1771b8c39d1fd2f1ab9 RESOURCES c9c7cb32308b4e560a22c858819ade9de524a602abd4e92d1c328c89f8037d73 THANKS 6c5117e36f4e69f0cd90f3bab6e7fd47ec90b0047e2aaed145300ad4ece20ede VERSION-INFO.dcf 523f27d69744a08c8f0bd5e1e6c3d89a4db29ed983388ba70963a3cd3a4a802e R-4/R-4.0.4.tar.gz This is the relevant part of the NEWS file CHANGES IN R 4.0.4: NEW FEATURES: * File share/texmf/tex/latex/jss.cls has been updated to work with LaTeX versions since Oct 2020. * Unicode character width tables (as used by nchar(, type = "w")) have been updated to Unicode 12.1 by Brodie Gaslam (PR#17781), including many emoji. * The internal table for iswprint (used on Windows, macOS and AIX) has been updated to include many recent Unicode characters. INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE: * If an external BLAS is specified by --with-blas=foo or _via_ environment variable BLAS_LIBS is not found, this is now a configuration error. The previous behaviour was not clear from the documentation: it was to continue the search as if --with-blas=yes was specified. BUG FIXES: * all.equal(x,y) now "sees" the two different NAs in factors, thanks to Bill Dunlap and others in PR#17897. * (~ NULL)[1] and similar formula subsetting now works, thanks to a report and patch by Henrik Bengtsson in PR#17935. Additionally, subsetting leaving an empty formula now works too, thanks to suggestions by Suharto Anggono. * .traceback(n) keeps source references again, as before R 4.0.0, fixing a regression; introduced by the PR#17580, reported including two patch proposals by Brodie Gaslam. * unlist(plst, recursive=FALSE) no longer drops content for pairlists with list components, thanks to the report and patch by Suharto Anggono in PR#17950. * iconvlist() now also works on MUSL based (Linux) systems, from a report and patch suggestion by Wesley Chan in PR#17970. * round() and signif() no longer tolerate wrong argument names, notably in 1-argument calls; reported by Shane Mueller on R-devel (mailing list); later reported as PR#17976. * .Machine has longdouble.* elements only if capabilities("long.double") is true, as documented. (Previously they were included if the platform had long double identical to double, as ARM does.) * p.adjust(numeric(), n=0) now works, fixing PR#18002. * identical(x,y) no longer prints "Unknown Type .." for typeof(x) == "..." objects. * Fix (auto-)print()ing of named complex vectors, see PR#17868 and PR#18019. * all.equal(<language>, <...>) now works, fixing PR#18029. * as.data.frame.list(L, row.names=NULL) now behaves in line with data.frame(), disregarding names of components of L, fixing PR#18034, reported by Kevin Tappe. * checkRdaFiles(ff)$version is now correct also when ff contains files of different versions, thanks to a report and patch from Sebastian Meyer in PR#18041. * macOS: Quartz device live drawing could fail (no plot is shown) if the system changes the drawing context after view update (often the case since macOS Big Sur). System log may show "CGContextDelegateCreateForContext: invalid context" error. -- 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-devel at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel _______________________________________________ R-announce at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-announce