I've rolled up R-2.6.2.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-2.6.2.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:
070cca21d9f8a6af15f992edb47a24d5 AUTHORS
eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a COPYING
a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343 COPYING.LIB
91f7aee4dda919e6503c46c2c31f8c15 FAQ
22607d0bc2ea0832ce62544715ad7885 NEWS
1099cbf02c624ceb459d9bbc4d0d1448 R-2.6.2.tar.gz
020479f381d5f9038dcb18708997f5da RESOURCES
1ad28cbc84485ccdf4ce5721b34ed645 THANKS
Here is the relevant bit of the NEWS file:
CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.6.2
NEW FEATURES
o colnames(DF) is now also fast for large dataframes DF with
automatic row.names. Note that the correct usage is
names(DF). (PR#10470)
o tools::texi2dvi() works around the failure of 'texi2dvi --quiet'
to be quiet in texinfo 4.11.
o On Linux, parallel 32/64-bit installations are supported using
multilib.
BUG FIXES
o A compilation problem on one system where glob was not found
has been corrected. (PR#10468)
o The "profile.nls" method of plot() was losing the x axis
labels.
o array() computed the total number of entries in the array before
coercing the dimensions to integer. (Reported by Allen McIntosh.)
o persp() misreported errors in the y parameter. (Reported by Allen
McIntosh.)
o source("clipboard", echo=TRUE) and file("clipboard",
open="rt")
gave spurious errors. (Reported by Fernando Saldanha.)
o attributes<-() stripped any existing attributes before checking
that all elements of the right-hand side had names.
o rbinom(n, size, *) gave NaN when 'size >
.Machine$integer.max'.
o print.summary.lm() is now consistent in the capitalization of
"R-squared".
o confint() misreported on some rank-deficient lm() models.
(PR#10496) This could also occur in the default method.
o \code{\var{<name>}} was not rendered correctly to latex in Rd
files for non-alphabetic arguments <name>.
o In 2.6.1, curve(*, add=TRUE) used a wrong default 'xlim' when x
coordinates were logged.
o The Java-based search in help.start() now only requires a
JVM >= 1.4 (2.6.1 accidentally required >= 1.5).
o The default method for range() was omitting 'na.rm' for
non-numeric objects such as those of class "Date". (PR#10508)
o cut(x, breaks=<n>) misbehaved on a constant vector of negative
values.
o bxp(), the plotting engine of boxplot(), no longer plots staple
ticks multiple times. (PR#10499)
o The automatic detection of the domain for message translation
was not working correctly for messages in message(), warning()
and stop() in packages other than 'base'.
o The profile.nls() function misbehaved when encountering
non-convergence of the "port" algorithm.
o Under certain rare circumstances in R 2.6.x, log(), round()
and trunc() could alter their arguments in the caller. This
involved passing of empty '...' arguments, and was spotted
when using apply(x, 2, log).
o par() no longer warns unnecessarily when asked to set new=FALSE
on an unused graphics device.
o plot.formula() was not passing on '...' when used with a
one-sided formula.
plot.formula() was not accepting expressions for annotations
passed to title(). (PR#10525)
o pchisq(x, df=0, ncp=L) now returns the correct limit exp(-L/2) for
x=0 and is no longer returning NaN for x > 0, L < 80. (PR#10551)
o Non-ASCII characters were only working correctly in Hershey
fonts if these were specified by the 'vfont' argument to
text() and not if specified as a font family.
o There were several errors in Hershey$allowed, but the help
page listed the allowed combinations correctly.
o text() no longer attempts to use 'vfont' with an expression
for 'labels' (it was documented not to work).
o fisher.test(simulate.p.value = TRUE) gave incorrect answers
in some extremely degenerate problems. (PR#10558)
o src/extra/pcre has been updated to PCRE 7.5 (bugfix release).
o capture.output() completes an incomplete final line of
output when file = NULL. (PR#10534)
o capture.output() now returns invisibly if output is written to
a file/connection.
o format.AsIs() did not remove the "AsIs" class and so could go
into an infinite loop.
o summary.mlm() lost the names of the coefficients when there
was only one.
o Rdconv was not marking examples files with an encoding if
this was known from the package's DESCRIPTION file.
o readChar() from a raw vector was reading a number of bytes,
not characters.
o slotNames() was erroneously treating classes that extend
"character" as strings.
o R no longer ignores SIGPIPE signals even in processes launched
by system(). Instead PR#1959 is handled by a simple error
handler which will give an error message in circumstances
where none was given before.
o The AIC() S4 generic in package stats4 no longer disables
dispatch of S3 methods for AIC().
o The conflicts check in library() excluded all S4 generics, even
where they were unrelated to the function masked. It is now
more selective (although still too generous to S4 generics).
o proc.time() was missing a protect and could misbehave if
provoked by gctorture(). (PR#10600)
o The cut() and hist() methods for dates and datetimes are now
more accurate for intervals of "months" and "years",
thanks to
Marc Schwarz.
o url()/download.file() could segfault if the HTTP interaction
involved a redirect to an address starting with '/' on the
same server.
o Memory allocations used in format() and in an internal utility
function could be off by one byte. (PR#10635)
o isoreg(x, y) no longer segfaults when y has NAs.
o split(x, g) always returns a list as documented. (It used to
return NULL for a zero-length 'x'.)
o tapply(x, g, ...) misbehaved if the args were of zero length.
(PR#10644)
o hist.POSIXt(*, xaxt = "n") no longer suppresses the y-axis.
o strptime() crashed under certain locales on Mac OS X.
o gregexpr() no longer segfaults when "" is given as the search
pattern. Thanks to Herve Pages for the bug report.
o matplot(x, *) with default 'pch' did not plot columns from
column
number 37 on (because the default pch was NA for those). (PR#10676)
o print.htest() lost output when used within sink(file, split=TRUE).
o Setting par(col.main=) also set par("col") to the same colour.
o Anonymous fifos were broken (again).
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