[Rd] R 4.4.2 is released

[peter dalgaard]

The build system rolled up R-4.4.2.tar.gz (codename "Pile of Leaves") this morning.

This is a minor update, with a few bug fixes.

The list below details the changes in this release. 

You can get the source code from

https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.4.2.tar.gz
https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.4.2.tar.xz

or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you.

Binaries for various platforms will appear in due course. 
(The Mac binaries will be delayed for a couple of days because the maintainer is traveling.)



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 4.4.2:

  C-LEVEL FACILITIES:

    * The S-compatibility macros F77_COM and F77_COMDECL defined in
      header R_ext/RS.h are deprecated and will be removed shortly.  We
      could find no record of their use.

  BUG FIXES:

    * Mathlib function lgammacor(x) no longer warns about underflow to
      zero for large x.

    * Text widths and heights were incorrectly reported by the Quartz
      device if the drawing context didn't exist yet (typically when
      drawing off-screen to a window that is yet to appear, see
      PR#18591).

    * The Quartz device could segfault in cases where paths with spaces
      are used in the new glyph drawing API.  Thanks to Tomek
      Gieorgijewski (PR#18758).

    * On macOS in R CRAN builds, it is again possible to read
      little-endian UTF-16 text with a BOM from a connection using
      encoding="UTF-16".  Users building R from source should avoid
      using the system libiconv in macOS 14.1 and later.

    * methods' internal .requirePackage() now re-enables primitive
      method dispatch when needed; thanks to Ivan Krylov for
      demystifying CRAN package check failures on the R-devel mailing
      list.


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