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Generalizing Support for Functional OOP in R: Generalizing Support for Functional OOP in R R has built-in support for two functional Object Oriented Programming (OOP) systems: S3 and S4, corresponding to the third and fourth version of the S language,… https://t.co/DK57GrYprO

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R on 64-bit ARM Windows: R 4.4.0, to be released tomorrow, comes with experimental native support for 64-bit ARM Windows machines (aarch64, arm64). Rtools44 with native support for the platform has been released at the beginning of March. The effort to… https://t.co/hTWGxs7121

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2024-04-07: CHANGES IN R 4.4.0 NEW FEATURES

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New completion option ‘backtick’ (disabled by default) allows non-syntactic completions to be wrapped in backquotes. This is currently only useful for Jupyter notebooks via the ‘IRkernel’ package,… https://t.co/BmuCLxPQmD

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2024-04-04: CHANGES IN R 4.4.0 NEW FEATURES

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New function ‘pkg2HTML()’ in ‘tools’ to create single-page HTML reference manuals for R packages.
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Licence headers for the RPC code in ‘src/extra/xdr’ have been updated to use the… https://t.co/E8qGJgny7i

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2024-04-03: CHANGES IN R 4.4.0 INSTALLATION

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The parser has been updated to work with ‘bison’ 3.8.2, which is now used for the pre-generated parsers in ‘gram.c’, ‘file.c’, and ‘gramRd.c’. A few parser error messages have changed, which may… https://t.co/SInXUgXhZW

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2024-02-22: CHANGES IN R 4.3.3 BUG FIXES

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Added a work-around for a bug in macOS 14.3.1 and higher which prevents R plots in the Quartz Cocoa device from updating on screen. https://t.co/rJNWcf1zKl

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2024-02-21: CHANGES IN R 4.3.3 BUG FIXES

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‘predict(, newdata=*)’ fix computing of ‘nbasis’, see Russ Lenth's comment 29 in PR#16158. https://t.co/Cp1bhunaIz

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2024-02-20: CHANGES IN R 4.3.3 BUG FIXES

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‘pbeta(x, a,b)’ is correct now for ‘x’=0 or 1 in the boundary cases where ‘a’ or ‘b’ or both are 0, fixing PR#18672 thanks to Michael Fay.
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‘pmatch(x, table)’ for large ‘table’, also called for… https://t.co/8sg9lFV7nP

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2024-02-19: CHANGES IN R 4.3.3 NEW FEATURES

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‘iconv()’ now fixes up variant encoding names such as ‘"utf8"’ case-insensitively.

CHANGES IN R 4.3.3 DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

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The legacy ‘encoding = "MacRoman"’ is deprecated in… https://t.co/0HAKvmKqs1

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2024-02-16: CHANGES IN R 4.3.2 patched BUG FIXES

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‘cov2cor()’ now works, fixing PR#18423 thanks to Mikael Jagan and Elin Waring. https://t.co/lYkqBFPm6x

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2024-01-24: CHANGES IN R 4.3.2 patched BUG FIXES

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‘rank(x)’ no longer overflows during integer addition, when computing rank average for largish but not-yet long vector ‘x’, fixing PR#18630, thanks to Ilia Kats.
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‘cov2cor()’ now works,… https://t.co/46AYXMgdJv

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2024-01-17: CHANGES IN R-devel SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

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Startup banners, ‘R --version’, ‘sessionInfo()’ and ‘R CMD check’ no longer report ‘(64-bit)’ as part of the platform as this is almost universal - the increasingly rare 32-bit… https://t.co/nZEissew2z

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2023-12-25: CHANGES IN R-devel SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

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Startup banners, ‘R --version’, ‘sessionInfo()’ and ‘R CMD check’ no longer report ‘(64-bit)’ as part of the platform as this is almost universal - the increasingly rare 32-bit… https://t.co/KewIURF5Sx

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2023-12-24: CHANGES IN R 4.3.2 patched DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT

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The legacy ‘encoding = "MacRoman"’ is deprecated in ‘pdf()’, ‘postscript()’. https://t.co/UGlbiUHCne

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2023-12-19: CHANGES IN R 4.3.2 patched BUG FIXES

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‘drop.terms(*)’ keeps ‘ + offset(.)’ terms when it should, PR#18565, and ‘drop.terms()’ no longer makes up a response, PR#18566, fixing both bugs thanks to Mikael Jagan.
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Computations… https://t.co/ePWN5Zu8cL

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2024-03-29: CHANGES IN R 4.4.0 NEW FEATURES

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The byte code evaluator now uses less C stack space for recursive calls to byte-compiled functions. It also makes more of an effort to avoid allocations for scalar return values. https://t.co/8XVec03i56

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2024-03-28: CHANGES IN R 4.4.0 SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

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Startup banners, ‘R --version’, ‘sessionInfo()’ and ‘R CMD check’ no longer report ‘(64-bit)’ as part of the platform as this is almost universal - the increasingly rare 32-bit… https://t.co/WQwhkeYFni

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2024-03-27: CHANGES IN R-devel NEW FEATURES

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Licence headers for the RPC code in ‘src/extra/xdr’ have been updated to use the GPL-compatible licence published by Oracle America in 2010.

New function ‘pkg2HTML()’ in ‘tools’ to create… https://t.co/6A5qsDPGu1

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2024-03-26: CHANGES IN R-devel INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE

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The minimum ‘autoconf’ requirement for a maintainer build has been increased to ‘autoconf’ 2.71.

It is intended to increase this to 2.72 for R 4.5.0: the distributed ‘configure’… https://t.co/Qlm0cuokkz

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2024-03-25: CHANGES IN R-devel NEW FEATURES

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Licence headers for the RPC code in ‘src/extra/xdr’ have been updated to use the GPL-compatible licence published by Oracle America in 2010.

CHANGES IN R-devel INSTALLATION on WINDOWS

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