The latest version of R is R-0.61.3. You can find this is the file R-0.61.3.tgz or create (a close approximation to) it by applying the patch in R-0.61.2-0.61.3.diff.gz to a directory containing the 0.61.2 distribution. Patch procedure, assuming standard GNU "patch" (users of the Solaris version are on their own...), is as follows gzip -dc R-0.61.2-0.61.3.diff.gz | patch -E -p1