I've rolled up R-0.65.1.tgz a moment ago.
As usual, you shouldn't get it from Auckland, but wait for it to be
mirrored at a CRAN site near you within a day or two.
For those who are too curious to wait, I'll put a copy in
ftp://blueberry.kubism.ku.dk/pub/R-devel/R-0.65.1.tgz
There's also a version split in two for floppies and a patch file if
you prefer that. (If you use the patch file, you will miss a logo.bmp
file in the gnuwin32 directory, but that is probably immaterial to
most of you).
For the R Core Team,
Peter D.
Here is the relevant part of the NEWS file:
CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.65.1
NEW FEATURES
o .C, .Fortran. .Call and .External now have an argument PACKAGE
to specify the shared library to be used for the symbol. See
?Foreign. Package writers are encouraged to use this.
o On startup (unless --no-environ), first .Renviron is looked for in
the current directory, and then in $HOME/ (= ~/ ).
o New options(error.halt = FALSE) (default is TRUE) allows
continuation after an error in batch processing.
o In graphics, lty has now 6 instead of 4 predefined line types.
o as.hclust.twins() in package mva to convert (and plot)
objects from agnes() and daisy() of package cluster.
o R INSTALL now can directly install pkg_version.tar.gz files
as obtained from CRAN. New function update.packages()
& friends for automatically downloading packages from CRAN and
install them on the fly (on Unix and Windows).
o New function commandArgs() to record the command-line used.
o New arguments `local' and `now' to dyn.load.
o diag(x) now keeps names when appropriate and barfs when x is an array.
o functions source.url, url.show, read.table.url, scan.url to read
from an http server instead of a file.
o grid() gets useful defaults: grid lines drawn at tick marks.
o set operations union(), intersect(), setdiff() and is.element().
o New function stars() for star plots and segment diagrams of
multivariate data.
o Version info now in the top-level file `VERSION'.
o barplot has a "plot = TRUE" argument and now returns locations
of
all bars even when "beside = TRUE".
o hist has an "nclass" argument purely for S compatibility.
o Character strings can now, with most compilers, be passed
on and from Fortran. See ?Foreign for details.
o Functions as.single and single now have the effect with
.C and .Fortran of passing a numeric argument as float/REAL
rather than as double/DOUBLE PRECISION, by setting the
attribute "Csingle". See ?Foreign for details.
o Comparison of strings uses the current locale on systems where
this is available, and so is always consistent with the ordering
used by sort().
o sapply has a new argument USE.NAMES=TRUE and now returns a named
result when its input was a character.
o plot.stepfun has new arguments lty and lwd.
o x labels in boxplot now handled differently, so that math
expressions are allowed.
o postscript() argument `onefile' now does something, and there
is a new paper type `special' and new argument `pagecentre'.
See ?postscript for details.
o Experimental function dev2bitmap() to copy to a bitmap graphics format.
BUG FIXES
o centering in text() will be more accurate, particularly on devices
with full font metric information (postscript, x11, not windows).
o arguments after --no-readline in the Unix version were ignored.
o couldn't set attributes in hashed environments.
o [<-.data.frame mishandled dfr[1] <- 1 (forgotten drop=FALSE)
o sys.on.exit didn't work
o sys.parent didn't quite work either for n >= 2.
o par("mfg") was wrong, par(mfg=) switched to down columns. Now
par(mfrow/mfcol = c(nr, nc)) followed by par(mfg=c(i,j)) is
the preferred style.
o plot( <aov.object> ) failed after 2nd plot, PR#279
o Several patches for systems with long != int.
o approx failed if inputs contained NAs.
o weighted lm fits with 1 diml x failed if any weight was zero.
o lm.influence failed when there were undetermined coefficients, PR#280.
o problem with function()... inside saved functions because arg count
increased to accommodate stored source. (Incorrect number of
arguments to "lambda")
o improvements to generation of HTML help files: should work
better on viewers other than Netscape.
o stl in package ts could conflict with package leaps: the Fortran
symbols have been changed.
o help page for factor is improved and corrected.
o na.omit.ts and na.contiguous now preserve time-series attributes.
o more automatic testing ("make check") using
options(error.halt=FALSE)
led to the elimination of dozens (!) of seg.fault possibilities.
o family quasi handles zero observations with var=mu^2 more correctly.
o dynamically-loaded libraries are searched last-loaded first, as
documented (under Unix it used to be first-loaded first).
o rowsum failed with a matrix and a single group (drop=FALSE needed).
o deriv(y ~ <expr>(x)) now works as well as deriv(~ <expr>(x)).
o qr over-estimated ranks in some degenerate cases.
qr did not work correctly if n < p and the first n cols were
rank-deficient.
o str() wouldn't work quite right for named characters; doesn't
quote
symbols anymore.
o Colour conversion (rgb, gray, hsv) truncated doubles and so
gave machine-dependent results on the examples. It now rounds.
o cat() now admits again that it can't handle lists instead of
"random" segfaulting.
o More accurate rounding (including rounding to even) on platforms
without rint (e.g. Windows).
o qgeom() is now left-continuous with a tolerance, and so the
example on the help page will be platform-independent.
o pretty() has been changed to use tolerance around integers and
so will be more platform-independent. The exact output has
probably changed on all platforms for some input.
o image() & filled.contour() now work for 1x1 matrices
and with constant z values.
--
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(*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918
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