The build system rolled up R-3.2.2.tar.gz (codename "Fire Safety") this morning. The list below details the changes in this release. The main point of this release is to enable package installation via secure HTTP, since ordinary HTTP is increasingly being considered a security risk. You can get the source code from http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.2.2.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: MD5 (AUTHORS) = eb97a5cd38acb1cfc6408988bffef765 MD5 (COPYING) = eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a MD5 (COPYING.LIB) = a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343 MD5 (FAQ) = e74e64dde0f92181957d46a0f8538e8b MD5 (INSTALL) = 3964b9119adeaab9ceb633773fc94aac MD5 (NEWS) = 5ff829377f0de5cdb0ad30bb42977611 MD5 (NEWS.0) = bfcd7c147251b5474d96848c6f57e5a8 MD5 (NEWS.1) = eb78c4d053ec9c32b815cf0c2ebea801 MD5 (NEWS.2) = 8e2f4d1d5228663ae598a09bf1e2bc6b MD5 (R-latest.tar.gz) = 57cef5c2e210a5454da1979562a10e5b MD5 (README) = aece1dfbd18c1760128c3787f5456af6 MD5 (RESOURCES) = 529223fd3ffef95731d0a87353108435 MD5 (THANKS) = ba00f6cc68a823e1741cfa6011f40ccb MD5 (VERSION-INFO.dcf) = 55826f7f976cd9623577e5a9ac694c47 MD5 (R-3/R-3.2.2.tar.gz) = 57cef5c2e210a5454da1979562a10e5b This is the relevant part of the NEWS file CHANGES IN R 3.2.2: SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES: * It is now easier to use secure downloads from https:// URLs on builds which support them: no longer do non-default options need to be selected to do so. In particular, packages can be installed from repositories which offer https:// URLs, and those listed by setRepositories() now do so (for some of their mirrors). Support for https:// URLs is available on Windows, and on other platforms if support for libcurl was compiled in and if that supports the https protocol (system installations can be expected to do). So https:// support can be expected except on rather old OSes (an example being OS X 'Snow Leopard', where a non-system version of libcurl can be used). (Windows only) The default method for accessing URLs _via_ download.file() and url() has been changed to be "wininet" using Windows API calls. This changes the way proxies need to be set and security settings made: there have been some reports of sites being inaccessible under the new default method (but the previous methods remain available). NEW FEATURES: * cmdscale() gets new option list. for increased flexibility when a list should be returned. * configure now supports texinfo version 6.0, which (unlike the change from 4.x to 5.0) is a minor update. (Wish of PR#16456.) * (Non-Windows only) download.file() with default method = "auto" now chooses "libcurl" if that is available and a https:// or ftps:// URL is used. * (Windows only) setInternet2(TRUE) is now the default. The command-line option --internet2 and environment variable R_WIN_INTERNET2 are now ignored. Thus by default the "internal" method for download.file() and url() uses the "wininet" method: to revert to the previous default use setInternet2(FALSE). This means that https:// can be read by default by download.file() (they have been readable by file() and url() since R 3.2.0). There are implications for how proxies need to be set (see ?download.file): also, cacheOK = FALSE is not supported. * chooseCRANmirror() and chooseBioCmirror() now offer HTTPS mirrors in preference to HTTP mirrors. This changes the interpretation of their ind arguments: see their help pages. * capture.output() gets optional arguments type and split to pass to sink(), and hence can be used to capture messages. C-LEVEL FACILITIES: * Header Rconfig.h now defines HAVE_ALLOCA_H if the platform has the alloca.h header (it is needed to define alloca on Solaris and AIX, at least: see 'Writing R Extensions' for how to use it). INSTALLATION and INCLUDED SOFTWARE: * The libtool script generated by configure has been modified to support FreeBSD >= 10 (PR#16410). BUG FIXES: * The HTML help page links to demo code failed due to a change in R 3.2.0. (PR#16432) * If the na.action argument was used in model.frame(), the original data could be modified. (PR#16436) * getGraphicsEvent() could cause a crash if a graphics window was closed while it was in use. (PR#16438) * matrix(x, nr, nc, byrow = TRUE) failed if x was an object of type "expression". * strptime() could overflow the allocated storage on the C stack when the timezone had a non-standard format much longer than the standard formats. (Part of PR#16328.) * options(OutDec = s) now signals a warning (which will become an error in the future) when s is not a string with exactly one character, as that has been a documented requirement. * prettyNum() gains a new option input.d.mark which together with other changes, e.g., the default for decimal.mark, fixes some format()ting variants with non-default getOption("OutDec") such as in PR#16411. * download.packages() failed for type equal to either "both" or "binary". (Reported by Dan Tenenbaum.) * The dendrogram method of labels() is much more efficient for large dendrograms, now using rapply(). (Comment #15 of PR#15215) * The "port" algorithm of nls() could give spurious errors. (Reported by Radford Neal.) * Reference classes that inherited from reference classes in another package could invalidate methods of the inherited class. Fixing this requires adding the ability for methods to be "external", with the object supplied explicitly as the first argument, named .self. See "Inter-Package Superclasses" in the documentation. * readBin() could fail on the SPARC architecture due to alignment issues. (Reported by Radford Neal.) * qt(*, df=Inf, ncp=.) now uses the natural qnorm() limit instead of returning NaN. (PR#16475) * Auto-printing of S3 and S4 values now searches for print() in the base namespace and show() in the methods namespace instead of searching the global environment. * polym() gains a coefs = NULL argument and returns class "poly" just like poly() which gets a new simple=FALSE option. They now lead to correct predict()ions, e.g., on subsets of the original data. * rhyper(nn, <large>) now works correctly. (PR#16489) * ttkimage() did not (and could not) work so was removed. Ditto for tkimage.cget() and tkimage.configure(). Added two Ttk widgets and missing subcommands for Tk's image command: ttkscale(), ttkspinbox(), tkimage.delete(), tkimage.height(), tkimage.inuse(), tkimage.type(), tkimage.types(), tkimage.width(). (PR#15372, PR#16450) * getClass("foo") now also returns a class definition when it is found in the cache more than once. _______________________________________________ R-announce at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-announce