R 3.6.2 is released

[Peter Dalgaard]

The build system rolled up R-3.6.2.tar.gz (codename "Dark and Stormy Night") this morning.

The list below details the changes in this release.

You can get the source code from

http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.6.2.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 checksums (md5 and SHA-256) for the freshly created files, in case you wish
to check that they are uncorrupted:

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This is the relevant part of the NEWS file

CHANGES IN R 3.6.2:

  NEW FEATURES:

    * runmed(x, *) gains a new option na.action determining _how_ to
      handle NaN or NA in x.

    * dotchart() gains new options ann, xaxt, frame.plot and log.

  INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE:

    * Detection of the C stack direction has been moved from run-time
      to configure: this is safer with LTO builds and allows the
      detection to be overridden - see file config.site.

    * Source-code changes enable installation on platforms using gcc
      -fno-common (the expected default for gcc 10.x).

  C-LEVEL FACILITIES:

    * installTrChar (which is nowadays is wrapped by installChar) is
      defined in Rinternals.h.  (Neither are part of the API.)

  PACKAGE INSTALLATION:

    * Header Rconfig.h contains the value of FC_LEN_T deduced at
      installation which is used by the prototypes in headers
      R_ext/BLAS.h and R_ext/Lapack.h but to avoid extensive breakage
      this is only exposed when USE_FC_LEN_T is defined.

      If a package's C/C++ calls to BLAS/LAPACK allow for the 'hidden'
      arguments used by most Fortran compilers to pass the lengths of
      Fortran character arguments, define USE_FC_LEN_T and include
      Rconfig.h (possibly _via_ R.h) before including R_ext/BLAS.h or
      R_ext/Lapack.h.

    * A package with Fortran source code and perhaps C (but not C++)
      sources can request for its shared object/DLL to be linked by the
      Fortran compiler by including a line USE_FC_TO_LINK= in
      src/Makevars[.win] and using $(SHLIB_OPENMP_FFLAGS) as part of
      PKG_LIBS.

      The known reason for doing so is a package which uses Fortran
      (only) OpenMP on a platform where the Fortran OpenMP runtime is
      incompatible with the C one (e.g. gfortran 9.x with clang).

  UTILITIES:

    * R CMD check has a new option to mitigate checks leaving
      files/directories in /tmp.  See the 'R Internals' manual - this
      is part of --as-cran.

  Windows:

    * The default standard for C++ in package installation is C++11 (as
      it has been on other platforms where available since R 3.6.0: the
      default toolchain on Windows was defaulting to C++98).

  DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT:

    * Support for specifying C++98 in package installation is
      deprecated.

    * Support in R CMD config for F77, FCPIFCPLAGS, CPP, CXXCPP and
      CXX98 and similar is deprecated.  (CPP is found from the system
      make and may well not be set.)

      Use $CC -E and $CXX -E instead of CPP and CXXCPP.

  BUG FIXES:

    * runmed(x, *) when x contains missing values now works
      consistently for both algorithm="Stuetzle" and "Turlach", and no
      longer segfaults for "Turlach", as reported by Hilmar Berger.

    * apply(diag(3), 2:3, mean) now gives a helpful error message.

    * dgamma(x, shape, log=TRUE) now longer overflows to Inf for shape
      < 1 and very small x, fixing PR#17577, reported by Jonathan
      Rougier.

    * Buffer overflow in building error messages fixed. Reported by
      Benjamin Tremblay.

    * options(str = .) is correctly initialized at package utils load
      time, now.  A consequence is that str() in scripts now is more
      consistent to interactive use, e.g., when displaying function(**)
      argument lists.

    * as.numeric(<call>) now gives correct error message.

    * Printing ls.str() no longer wrongly shows "<missing>" in rare
      cases.

    * Auto-printing S4 objects no longer duplicates the object, for
      faster speed and reduced memory consumption. Reported by Aaron
      Lun.

    * pchisq(<LRG>, <LRG>, ncp=100) no longer takes practically forever
      in some cases.  Hence ditto for corresponding qchisq() calls.

    * x %% L for finite x no longer returns NaN when L is infinite, nor
      suffers from cancellation for large finite L, thanks to Long Qu's
      PR#17611.

      Analogously, x %/% L and L %/% x suffer less from cancellation
      and return values corresponding to limits for large L.

    * grepl(NA, *) now returns logical as documented.

    * options(warn=1e11) is an error now, instead of later leading to C
      stack overflow because of infinite recursion.

    * R_tryCatch no longer transfers control for all conditions.
      Reported and patch provided by Lionel Henry in PR#17617.

    * format(object.size(.), digits=NULL) now works, fixing PR#17628
      reported by Jonathan Carroll.

    * get_all_vars(f, d) now also works for cases, e.g. where d
      contains a matrix.  Reported by Simon Wood in 2009 and patch
      provided by Ben Bolker in PR#13624.

      Additionally, it now also works when some variables are data
      frames, fixing PR#14905, reported by Patrick Breheny.

    * barplot() could get spacings wrong if there were exactly two bars
      PR#15522.  Patch by Michael Chirico.

    * power.t.test() works in more cases when returning values of n
      smaller than 2.

    * dotchart(*, pch=., groups=.) now works better.  Reported by
      Robert and confirmed by Nic Rochette in PR#16953.

    * canCoerce(obj, cl) no longer assumes length(class(obj)) == 1.

    * plot.formula(*, subset = *) now also works in a boundary case
      reported by Robert Schlicht (TU Dresden).

    * readBin() and writeBin() of a rawConnection() now also work in
      large cases, thanks to a report and proposal by Taeke Harkema in
      PR#17665.

-- 
Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
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