Martin Smith's report and suggestions in

now clears the object bit when removing the

encoding on characters represented differently in UTF-8.  Support for

surrogate pairs on Solaris has been improved.

on Windows now works with non-ASCII path

names representable in the current native encoding (

registry even when installed only for the current user (

Also, it's been tweaked for very small ranges and when a boundary is

has negative numbers, currently still warning about a very small

The error message for not finding vignette files when weaving

has correct file sizes now. (Thanks to Sebastian Meyer's

similar cases are more accurate with underflow precaution.

It is planned that the 4.1.x series will be the last to

support 32-bit Windows, with production of binary packages for

that series continuing until early 2023.

the correct numbers of controls; previously it had the numbers of

cases added to these.  (Reported by Alexander Fowler in

provides source packages and is often unavailable.)

%% it had one Windows binary package for 4.0, none for 3.6.

) can now use different dependency types for direct and

to combine a factor with other factors now

gives a factor, an ordered factor when combining ordered factors

is not specified, as the help file always said it

When printing list arrays, classed objects are now shown

character string, or by giving the first elements of their class

has been configured with the equivalent of

now also shows extraneous attributes of an

Rudimentary support for vi-style tags in

allowing to check Rd files marked with keyword

conversion utilities to (double precision)

, for example should environment variable

For HTML help (both dynamic and static), Rd file links to

help pages in external packages are now treated as references to

topics rather than file names, and fall back to a file link only

if the topic is not found in the target package. The earlier rule

which prioritized file names over topics can be restored by

dispatching to methods, thus simplifying the implementation of

when it is the first argument.  (From a report and