R-1.6.1 is released
Peter Dalgaard BSA
p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Fri Nov 1 12:41:54 CET 2002
I've rolled up R-1.6.1.tgz a short while ago. This is a minor upgrade,
fixing an assortment of minor bugs, and one major one: 1.6.0
introduced a memory leak in deparsing, causing much trouble for people
running simulations.
You can get it from the developer site at
http://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.6.1.tgz
or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site near you. Binaries for
various platforms will appear in due course.
There is also a version split for floppies, but due to the inclusion
of recommended packages as binary .tar.gz files, I'm no longer
providing a patch file.
For the R Core Team,
Peter D.
Here's the relevant part of the NEWS file:
CHANGES IN R VERSION 1.6.1
NEW FEATURES
o Added a few "trivial and obviously missing" functions to tcltk:
tkchooseDirectory, tkpopup, tkdialog, tkread
o barplot() has a new argument `axis.lty', which if set to 1
allows the pre-1.6.0 behaviour of plotting the axis and tick
marks for the categorical axis. (This was apparently not
intentional, but axis() used to ignore lty=0.)
The argument `border' is no longer ".NotYetUsed".
BUG FIXES
o hist(<datetime>, cex.axis = f) now works for x-axis too.
o prompt() gave wrong \usage{.} for long argument default expressions.
o summary(x) gives more information when `x' is a logical
(or a data frame with a logical column which is now quite customary).
o seq.POSIXt(from, to, length.out= . ) could give too long results
o summaryRprof() was counting nested calls to the same function
twice.
o Printing of objects of mode "expression" did strange things if
there were "%" characters in the deparsed expression (PR#2120).
o as.matrix.data.frame converted missings to "NA" not character NA.
(PR#2130)
o spec.pgram() was only interpolating zero freq for one series. (PR#2123)
o help(randu) had % unescaped in the example. (PR#2141)
o Making html links would fail if packages-head.html was not
writeable. (PR#2133)
o Sweave.sty was not installed to $R_HOME/share/texmf when
builddir != srcdir. On Windows backslashes in latex paths have
to be replaced by slashes.
o A memory leak in deparsing was introduced when eliminating
static variables (thanks to Achim Zeileis for spotting this).
A similar problem in loading workspaces has been corrected.
o TclInterface.Rd incorrectly used \synopsis for \usage so that
the usage section wasn't output.
o Readline stack off-by-one error. (PR#2165)
o R_ExpandFileName had a memory leak in the case libreadline was
used under Unix-alikes.
o sys.save.image() now closes all connections so it will work even
if the connection list has become full.
o loess() had an unstated limit of four predictors: this is now
documented and enforced.
o ${R_HOME}/etc/Renviron.site is now not read if R_ENVIRON is
set, as documented. Previously it was read unless R_ENVIRON
pointed to an actual file.
o Startup.Rd described the proceesing under Unix-alikes but
incorrectly implied it happened that way on the Windows and
MacOS ports. Neither use Renviron.site, for example.
o besselK(x,*) now returns 0 instead of Inf for large x. (PR#2179)
o The Tcl console code didn't work with Tcl/TK 8.0, and has been
#ifdef'd out. (PR#2090)
o format.AsIs() was not handling matrices.
o sd() was not passing na.rm to var() for matrices and data frames.
o dist() {mva} silently treated +/-Inf as NA.
o setwd() now returns NULL invisibly.
o basename() and dirname() did not check the length of their
input and ignored elements after the first. This affected
undoc {tools}.
o If A had dimnames, eigen(A) had inappropriate dimnames. (PR#2116)
o as.POSIXct.dates had a sign error for the origin (PR#2222)
o The claim that pie charts should be avoiden (in pie.Rd) is now
supported by a quote from Cleveland (1985).
o The vsnprintf() functions supplied for systems that don't
supply their own had a bug in the output of fractional parts,
corrupting data if using save() with ascii=TRUE. (PR#2144)
o pretty() values close to 0 in some cases which are now 0 (PR#1032
and D.Brahm's mails).
BUILD ISSUES
o Toplevel Makefile was missing dependency of "docs" on "R" (causing
parallel makes to go wrong)
o When building with recommended packages those were installed
into the first path in R_LIBS, if the environment variable was
present.
--
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c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N
(*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918
~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
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