I've rolled up R-2.2.1.tar.gz a short while ago. This is a maintenance
release containing mainly bugfixes.
See the full list of changes below.
You can get it from
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.2.1.tar.gz
(give it some time to arrive there) or wait for it to be mirrored at a
CRAN site nearer to you. If you're *really* impatient,
http://www.biostat.ku.dk/~pd/R-release should work too. Binaries for
various platforms will appear in due course.
There is also a version split for floppies.
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:
94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f COPYING
fad9b3332be894bab9bc501572864b29 COPYING.LIB
de541086db1146c1595d5be1d94a1b94 FAQ
70447ae7f2c35233d3065b004aa4f331 INSTALL
2c832b91154f663c0f07930d5e2a3dee NEWS
88bbd6781faedc788a1cbd434194480c ONEWS
4f004de59e24a52d0f500063b4603bcb OONEWS
42542290c6d1585af7ded330f811385c R-2.2.1.tar.gz
a9126622c51bef60e3febb41b2e737e5 R-2.2.1.tar.gz-split.aa
e89b51f6dbc1ddffd646a3f1f203f4f1 R-2.2.1.tar.gz-split.ab
15d93b1b5c38b6178ddcf9485dbd8cf1 R-2.2.1.tar.gz-split.ac
282bbbdd00c0066b6042ce16844036be R-2.2.1.tar.gz-split.ad
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2441c58fc24a69dd5cc65517a0b5e285 R-2.2.1.tar.gz-split.af
4ddcd13639debd984e3664a6b0681bd4 R-2.2.1.tar.gz-split.ag
4a042d73ec00d7d46be1cc704063dc39 R-2.2.1.tar.gz-split.ah
0d5d54a78ab994bacb12a98bece1306f R-2.2.1.tar.gz-split.ai
69b38c655e4c1b7c36cb0abaa4890253 R-2.2.1.tar.gz-split.aj
42542290c6d1585af7ded330f811385c R-latest.tar.gz
56a780cdec835c5c598f8dfc0738f7f3 README
020479f381d5f9038dcb18708997f5da RESOURCES
Here is the relevant part of the NEWS file:
USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
o options("expressions") has been reduced to 1000: the limit
of 5000 introduced in 2.1.0 was liable to give crashes from C
stack overflow.
NEW FEATURES
o Use of 'pch' (e.g. in points) in the symbol font 5 is now
interpreted in the single-byte encoding used by that font.
Similarly, strwidth now recognizes that font 5 has a different
encoding from that of the locale. (These are likely to affect
the answer only in MBCS locales such as UTF-8.)
o The URW font metrics have been updated to versions from late
2002 which cover more glyphs, including Cyrillic.
o New postscript encodings for CP1250 (Windows East European),
ISO Latin-7 (8859-13, Latvian, Lithuanian and Maori), Cyrillic
(8859-5), KOI8-R, KOI8-U and CP1251.
o configure has more support for the Intel and Portland Group
compilers on ix86 and x86_64 Linux.
o R CMD INSTALL will clean up if interrupted (e.g. by ctrl-C from
the keyboard).
o There is now a comprehensive French translation of the messages,
thanks to Philippe Grosjean.
DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT
o The undocumented use of atan() with two arguments is deprecated:
instead use atan2() (as documented).
o The 'vfont' argument of axis() and mtext() is deprecated
(it currently warns and does nothing).
o The function mauchley.test() is deprecated (was a misspelling)
and replaced by mauchly.test()
BUG FIXES
o The malloc's of AIX and OSF/1 which return NULL for size 0
are now catered for in src/main/regex.c.
o Names of list elements which are missing are now printed as
$<NA> and not $"NA" (which is how the non-missing name
"NA" is
printed). (Brought up in discussion of PR#8161.)
o help.start() was not linking R.css for use by its front page and
immediate links (2.2.0 only).
o Indexing by character NA matched the name "NA".
o The arith-true test used random inputs and did not set the seed, so
it could fail very occasionally.
o arima() with 'fixed' supplied and p=0 for the non-seasonal
part could give spurious warnings about 'some AR parameters
were fixed'.
o summary.matrix() could give an infinite recursion on some
classed objects (e.g. those of class "Surv").
o The 255th character in an 8-bit character set was not handled
correctly as a letter on some platforms where C char is
signed: for example it was printed as \377 and not allowed in
variable names. (Spotted by Alexey Shipunov in Russian
encodings.)
o Conversion from POSIXct to POSIXlt is done more accurately
around the change of DST in years not supported by the OS
(pre-1970 on Windows and some others, and in the far past or
future).
o chisq.test(cbind(1:0, c(7,16)), simulate.p = TRUE) gave wrong
P-values on some platforms. (PR#8224)
o pdf() was not writing details of the encoding to the file
correctly. (Spotted by Alexey Shipunov in Russian encodings.)
o image() was failing with an error when plotting a matrix
of all NA values. (PR#8228)
image() could fail if called with add=FALSE (the default) and
length(x)=1 for either x or y, as it uses the plot coordinates of
the previous plot (if any).
o tools::checkMD5sums was not accepting file names with spaces in.
o The plot() method for TukeyHSD() needed updating after adding
adjusted p-values. (PR#8229)
o read.fwf() did not work for header = TRUE. (PR#8226)
o diag() failed when its argument had NA values in its dimnames.
o [g]sub(pcre=TRUE) did not work correctly with \U and \L in a
UTF-8 locale, even on the example on the help page.
o promptMethods() was failing if the "methods" argument was
supplied.
o is.loaded() now finds Fortran symbols whether or not the
registration mechanism has been used.
o ISODateTime() mistakenly corrected non-existent times (when
DST was being started) in the current time zone.
o Some replacement operations on data frames gave incorrect
answers, e.g. DF[3:4, "y"] if column "y" did not exist or
was
a matrix.
o getGraphicsEvent() would cause memory corruption if passed an
empty prompt.
o qr() and chol() now pivot the colnames of the result when
pivoting is used. (PR#8258)
o example(points) omitted pch=0, although it was valid and
said in the text to be illustrated.
o plot.default() had an unused 'lab' argument, thereby preventing
the 'lab' graphics parameter being passed through '...' .
o Although polygon(col = NA) was the stated default, specifying
NA was not equivalent to omitting the argument (but col=NULL
was equivalent).
o Im(-1) was pi. (PR#8272, a side effect from all previous
versions of R returning the same value for Im and Arg of
non-complex numbers.)
o symbols(fg) defaulted to colour 1, not par("col") as documented.
It does now defaults to par("col").
o par("family") did not check the length of the value (up to 49
bytes) and so could segfault.
o aggregate.ts() did not allow for rounding in frequencies such
as 1/5.
o prcomp(tol=) was not dropping the sdev's corresponding to
dropped columns.
o Subassignment of a vector which increased the length of the
vector _and_ had the wrong length of replacement could
occasionally segfault. (This has been there since at least
mid 1997.)
o The registration of .Fortran symbols was broken: these could
only be looked up if there were also .Call symbols registered!
o R CMD build was incorrectly rejecting the recommended form of
name for a translation package, 'Translation-ll'. (PR#8314)
o numericDeriv() gave nonsense results unless the variables were
real, which was not checked.
o predict.prcomp() would sometimes give an error when predicting
a single observation. (PR#8324)
o mapply() could segfault if MoreArgs was not a list. (PR#8332)
o The arith-true test used identical() on floating-point results,
and this allowed a failure when the relative difference was
less than .Machine$double.eps but non-zero.
o qbinom() was not accepting p = -Inf when log.p = TRUE, although
it is a legitimate value.
o write.csv[2] only accepted logical constants for 'row.names', and
now accepts variables.
o Conversion of .Rd files did not correctly match braces
enclosing a whole argument, e.g. \eqn{{\bf a}}{a}.
o The C function pythag (used if hypot was not available) would
infinite-loop on systems with effective optimizing compilers.
o Writing long formats (more than 1000 bytes) with connections
that use dummy_vfprintf could fail on some systems. The limit
has been changed to 100000 bytes pending a more complete fix in R
2.3.0.
o Making in src/nmath/standalone without making R was not
making Rmath.h.
o Both the R front-end and INSTALL could find the attempted
temporary directory name already in use on platforms without
mktemp (and a genuine Bourne shell /bin/sh, not bash). Now
both the process ID and a timestamp are used to create the
directory name.
o [dpqr]gamma now return NaN for an invalid 'shape' parameter
(rather than throw an error), for consistency with other
distribution functions.
o t() now longer drops dimnames 'list(NULL,NULL)' or
'list(NULL)'.
o Influence measures such as rstandard() and cooks.distance()
could return infinite values rather than NaN for a case which
was fitted exactly. Similarly, plot.lm() could fail on such
examples. plot.lm(which = 5) had to be modified to only plot
cases with hat < 1. (PR#8367)
lm.influence() was incorrectly reporting 'coefficients' and
'sigma' as NaN for cases with hat = 1, and on some platforms
not detecting hat = 1 correctly.
o Rmath.h for standalone Rmath was not recording HAVE_WORKING_LOG,
so R_log was not available on platforms defining it.
o HoltWinters() was using a slightly incorrect formula in the C code.
o dir.create() could be confused by a trailing slash on the
path, and by paths containing drives on Windows.
o The search for tcl/tkConfig.sh looked in 'lib' before
'lib64'
directories (and not at all in /usr/local/lib64) and so might
prefer 32- to 64-bit versions if both are available.
o nlminb() used an uninitialized variable unless bounds were supplied,
and so failed on 64-bit Solaris.
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