[Rd] R 4.4.3 is released

[peter dalgaard]

The build system rolled up R-4.4.3.tar.gz (codename "Trophy Case") this morning.

This is intended to be the round-up release of the 4.4.x series. 

It also happens to be as close as we can get to celebrating 25 years since R-1.0.0.

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-4.4.3.tar.gz
https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.4.3.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. 


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 4.4.3:

  INSTALLATION:

    * R can be installed using C23 (for example with -std=gnu23 or
      -std=gnu2x) with recent compilers including gcc 12-14, Apple
      clang 15-16, LLVM clang 17-20 and Intel icx 2024.2.

      It can be installed with the upcoming (at the time of writing)
      gcc 15, which defaults to C23.

  C-LEVEL FACILITIES:

    * The functions R_strtod and R_atof now allow hexadecimal constants
      without an exponent, for compatibility with their C99 versions
      (PR#18805).

  UTILITIES:

    * R CMD build and R CMD check now allow reference output for demo
      scripts (demo/<demo>.Rout.save files) to be shipped with the
      package, as proposed by Torsten Hothorn in PR#18816.

  BUG FIXES:

    * kappa(A, exact=TRUE) for singular A returns Inf more generally,
      fixing PR#18817 reported by Mikael Jagan.

    * Fixed URLs of the sun spots (sunspot.month etc) data sets and
      mention future changes due to recalibration.

    * The parser now accepts hexadecimal constants with a decimal point
      without an exponent (taken as p0) as documented in
      ?NumericConstants (PR#18819).

    * rbind() now works correctly when inputs include a raw vector and
      a logical, integer or double vector - previously the inclusion of
      the latter was garbled.

    * smooth.spline() checks validity of its arguments df.offset and
      penalty: it could segfault if they were NULL.

    * isGeneric(<primitive>, fdef=*, getName=TRUE) now also returns the
      name instead of just TRUE, fixing PR#18829 reported by Mikael
      Jagan.

    * isGeneric(fdef = print) now works, fixing PR#18369 thanks to
      Mikael Jagan.

    * sort(x, method = "qsort") made illegal accesses when x has length
      0.

    * dir.create() is protected against being passed an empty string as
      its path argument.

    * Silent integer overflow could occur in the 'exact' computations
      for fisher.test() for unrealistic inputs: this is now an error.

    * Some invalid C-level memory accesses are avoided for loglin(,
      margin = NULL).

      loglin(, param = TRUE) no longer gives an error in corner cases
      such as a one-dimensional input.

    * dev.capabilities() $ events now reports "Idle" if the device
      provides it, fixing PR#18836, thanks to Trevor Davis.

    * arima(.., seasonal = <wrong-vector>) correctly errors now, ditto
      for arima0(), thanks to Norbert Kuder's report on the R-devel
      list.

    * binomial(<link>)$linkinv(eta) and .. $mu.eta(eta) now also work
      for "logit" link when is.integer(eta).

    * as.roman(x) now should work platform independently, also for,
      e.g., x = "IIIII" (= V) and x = "IIIIII" (= VI).

    * R CMD Rd2pdf works again on an installed package directory
      containing LaTeX help (from option --latex), thanks to a report
      by Peter Ruckdeschel.

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