R 1.6.0 beta

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

> R 1.6.0 has gone into final feature freeze as of today.
[...]

Keeping with the practice of the last two full releases, I took the 20020910 
tarball, and the rec'ed packages, last night and made Debian packages for the
unstable distribution.  I intend to update these weekly before Oct. 1 to ensure
that they do not migrate into testing yet as Debian's unstable is the appropriate
environment for these packages.

> The current version in known to pass the checks for our Linux/x86
> systems but has two known problems on Solaris/gcc: An optimizer bug in
> gcc 3.0.3 causing "cluster" to fail in mona.f and a convergence issue
> with the glns example in nlme. 

The build daemons have already caught up. The page
   http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=r-base
has links to the full build logs on all arches.  As of right now, we already 
have  
   alpha, arm hppa, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, sparc, s390
With the exception of arm, all run (and pass) "make check". Arm has a long-
standing fpu bug which is triggered by one test.

I made a small blunder. I had previously used a naming scheme like e.g.
1.4.1.cvsYYYYMMDD for the 1.5.0 pre-release.  This time I wanted to signal the
1.6.0 nature of the release and picked 1.6.0.rc.20020910  -- but that sorts 
higher than 1.6.0, so I will need to use 1.6.0.rel or 1.6.0.release on October 1.
I hope you're not to offended by this deviation from the simpler "1.6.0" .

Dirk

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