Already we have seen several questioners confused by the new features of
2.1.0. Resources which may help:
- Read the R-admin manual. It has changed a lot, and covers setting up
locales and languages as well as changes to the configure options.
Everyone should read chapter 6 (Internationalization), and all those
building from source on Unix should read Appendices A and B.
- The R-data manual has examples of reading files in different encodings.
Users of UTF-8 locales (MacOS X and most modern Linuxen) will need to
take care with `legacy' files.
- The long list of new topics in the NEWS file: in almost all cases there
are further details on the help pages.
- For package maintainers, `Writing R Extensions' of course.
There will (I am told) be some expository articles in the 2005-1 issue
of R-News. I've put one on the changes to update.packages() and friends
up (temporarily) at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/R/Packages210.pdf
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA)
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