I've rolled up R-2.4.1.tar.gz a short while ago. This is a maintenance
release and fixes a number of mostly minor bugs. See the full list
of changes below.
You can get it (in a short while) from
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.4.1.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.
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:
a8efde35b940278de19730d326f58449 AUTHORS
eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a COPYING
a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343 COPYING.LIB
62b256c4a06aeed7401c9430f1e41d0f FAQ
70447ae7f2c35233d3065b004aa4f331 INSTALL
06f14fbf950fbc7df31028344c78163b NEWS
88bbd6781faedc788a1cbd434194480c ONEWS
4f004de59e24a52d0f500063b4603bcb OONEWS
92b33fd2c3e770d595c1a472889230d5 R-2.4.1.tar.gz
92b33fd2c3e770d595c1a472889230d5 R-latest.tar.gz
433182754c05c2cf7a04ad0da474a1d0 README
020479f381d5f9038dcb18708997f5da RESOURCES
4eaf8a3e428694523edc16feb0140206 THANKS
Here is the relevant bit of the NEWS file:
CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.4.1
INSTALLATION
o The extraction of info from Subversion for an SVN checkout now
also works for svn >= 1.4.0. However, on Windows the 'Last
Changed Date' will be in the local timezone, and not in GMT as
previously.
o configure uses code borrowed from autoconf 2.60 to try harder to
ensure that a C99-compliant compiler is used. (It does so by
appending to CC.) This avoids problems with systems such as FC5
which override CFLAGS and thereby lose flags such as -std=gnu99.
NEW FEATURES
o rainbow(), heat.colors(), terrain.colors(), topo.colors() and
cm.colors() all gain an 'alpha' argument to be passed to hsv().
o dput() will give an incorrect representation of the row names
of a data frame with integer row names. This is now corrected
when the object is recreated.
C-LEVEL FACILITIES
o Using STRICT_R_HEADERS applies to more reported clashes with
Windows headers, including Calloc and Realloc. These and
Free need to be prefixed by R_ when STRICT_R_HEADERS is defined.
DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT
o The previously undocumented behaviour of structure() in adding a
class when specifying "tsp" or "levels" attributes
is now
deprecated (with a warning).
BUG FIXES
o Fixed warning() to use .dfltWarn intead of .dfltStop for default
handling (PR#9274).
o R would slow down when the product of the length of a vector and
the length of a character vector used to subset it exceeded 2^31.
(PR#9280)
o merge() now allows zero-row data frames.
o add1.lm() had been broken by other changes for weighted fits.
o axis.POSIXct() would sometimes give the wrong labels.
o Help for a method call would fail. (PR#9291)
o gzfile() returned an object of class "file" not
"gzfile". (PR#9271)
o load()ing from a connection had a logic bug in when it closed
the connection. (PR#9271)
o The lowess() algorithm is unstable if the MAD of the residuals
becomes (effectively) zero: R now terminates the iterations at
that point. (This may result in quite different answers.)
The 'delta' argument was incorrectly documented. (PR#9264)
o abbreviate() would only work for strings of up to 8191 bytes,
but this was not checked. Now longer strings are errors.
o Drawing X11 rotated text was buggy for VERY small (negative)
angle of rotation. Reported by Ben Bolker. (PR#9301)
o The X11 data editor would crash in an MBCS locale if R was
compiled with FC's CFLAGS that add buffer overflow and
stack-smashing detection.
o rect() was not accepting border=NA in some cases involving
cross-hatching.
o Fixes to S4 group generics to ensure that the correct number of
active arguments are in the signature of the group and all
members. Also a fix to keep the 'groupMembers' slot up to date.
o S4 group generic "Logic" (with '&', '|',
but not '!') has been
created, following the green book (apart from '!').
o removeClass() now takes care to remove any subclass references
to the deleted class.
o mle() (in stats4) might not have worked as intended when the
order of parameters in 'start' differed from that in the
log-likelihood. (PR#9313)
o dotchart() now properly restores par() settings after itself.
o system() on Mac OS X was blocking arbitrary signals during the
call although only SIGPROF was meant to be blocked.
o methods cached via callNextMethod() and (sometimes) as() were
being cached as directly specified although in fact they were
inherited. Caused problems in later search for inherited methods.
o str() works properly for method definitions and other S4-classed
function objects.
o JAVA_LIBS are now set correctly on MacOS X.
o Fix null-termination issue suspected of causing crash with Fedora
Extra RPMS (PR#9339, Justin Harrington, analysis and fix from Bill
Dunlap).
o Namespaces restored via a saved session silently failed to cache
their methods because the methods package was not yet
attached. Fixed by attaching methods before restoring data.
o rbind()ing a list to a data frame generated invalid row names,
which were an error in 2.4.0. (PR#9346)
o boxplot.stats(x) now returns the correct minimum instead of an
error for x <- c(1,Inf,Inf,Inf), and hence boxplot(x)
"works".
o promptClass() now uses \linkS4class{<ClassName>} instead of
of \link{<ClassName>-class}.
o gc() no longer reports nonsense values for the number of used
Vcells if the true value exceeds 2^31 (and hence over 16Gb of
heap is in use): it now reports NA. (PR#9345)
o rapply() now detects more user errors in supplying arguments.
(PR#9349)
o boxplot() was ignoring argument 'boxfill'. (PR#9352)
o plot.lm(which = 6, id.n = 0) did not work. (PR#9333)
o .deparseOpts("delayPromises") was not matching the C code,
returning 64 rather than 32.
o bxp() could use partial matching on 'pars' when finding
defaults for some of its parameters, e.g. a setting of
'cex.axis'
in 'pars' or inline was used to set a default for
'outcex'.
o acf() now allows lag.max = 0 except when type="partial", and
forces the lag 0 autocorrelation to 1. (PR#9360)
o hist(*, include.lowest=., right=., plot=FALSE) does not warn
anymore, (PR#9356) and more.
o Some bugs in caching superclass/subclass relations and in
removing those relations on detach and on removeClass() have
been fixed.
o readBin() could return one too many strings if 'n' was an
over-estimate. (PR#9361)
o A request for an opaque colour in the pdf() device after a
translucent one did not set the transparency back to opaque in
2.4.0.
Semi-transparent background colours were not being plotted on
the pdf() device.
o plot.lm(which=5) in the case of constant leverage re-ordered
the factor levels but not the residuals, so the labelling by
factor level was often incorrect.
o packBits() was not accepting a logical argument. (PR#9374)
o make install was omitting doc/FAQ and doc/RESOURCES.
o A two-sample t.test(x, y, var.equal=TRUE) did not allow one of the
groups to be of size one.
o The "ts" method for print() failed on some corrupted objects
of class "ts", e.g. those without a "tsp" attribute.
o structure() reordered the "class" value given if there was a
"tsp" value specified.
o pairs() now does pass appropriate parts of '...' to the
'diag.panel' argument. (PR#9384)
o plot.lm() was using an incorrect estimate of dispersion for
some GLMs (including family=binomial and family=poisson).
(PR#9316)
o Subsetting operators were setting R_Visible too early, so
assignments in arguments could make the result invisible.
(PR#9263)
o The tk-GUI was displaying a warning due to an extra comma in
the list of manuals (PR#9396)
o packageDescription() now gives an explicit error on a corrupt
DESCRIPTION file.
o There was a scoping issue with tcltk callbacks given as
unevaluated expressions. This has only been partially fixed, a
complete fix probably requires redesign.
o trace() had its return value documented incorrectly and was
sometimes visible when it should not have been.
o pchisq() would sometimes use the wrong tail when calculating
non-central probabilities with lower.tail = FALSE. (PR#9406)
o rm() could remove the wrong objects when passed an expression.
(PR#9399) Now only names are allowed in the '...' argument,
and the incorrect documentation of what happened with
character objects is corrected.
o url() was not supporting 'encoding' except on file:// URLs.
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