[Rd] R 3.6.2 is released

Thu Dec 12 17:10:44 CET 2019

It is not obvious what it is that you are calling "R-patched", nor where there could be an entry for "3.6.2 patched".

The prerelease/patched versions are snapshots of R-3-6-branch made at 00:20 so the current one will have been made before the release version run started at 09:00 this morning, and hence the nightly tarball will be of the release candidate. However it will not be called R-patched:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 pd  staff        29 Dec 12 00:20 R-latest.tar.gz -> R-rc_2019-12-06_r77555.tar.gz

The current version in SVN differs only by the VERSION file. Its NEWS.Rd starts

Peters-MacBook-Air:R pd$ more VERSION
3.6.2 Patched
Peters-MacBook-Air:R pd$ more doc/NEWS.Rd
% -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
\newcommand{\Rlogo}{\if{html}{\figure{../../html/Rlogo.svg}{options: class="toplogo" alt="[R logo]"}}\if{latex}{\figure{Rlogo.pdf}{options: width=0.5in}}}

\name{NEWS}
\title{R News}
\encoding{UTF-8}

\section{\Rlogo CHANGES IN R 3.6.2}{

  \subsection{NEW FEATURES}{
    \itemize{
  ....

and any changes for 3.6.2 patched should go above the entries for 3.6.2.

- pd

> On 12 Dec 2019, at 16:34 , Avraham Adler <avraham.adler using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi. 
> 
> Under R-news there is an entry for 3.6.2 patched regarding LAPACK. However, when uncompresding the current R-patched, it creates R-Rc directories. Is this a naming oversight or is the patched version actually the unadjusted release candidate?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Avi
> 
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 4:58 AM Peter Dalgaard via R-devel <r-devel using r-project.org> wrote:
> 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:
> 
> MD5 (AUTHORS) = b9c44f9f78cab3184ad9898bebc854b4
> MD5 (COPYING) = eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a
> MD5 (COPYING.LIB) = a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343
> MD5 (FAQ) = 28a3942a7129877e9af1d5ea16202052
> MD5 (INSTALL) = 7893f754308ca31f1ccf62055090ad7b
> MD5 (NEWS) = 45437b38c75e0248b527c00e6d42ee6a
> MD5 (NEWS.0) = bfcd7c147251b5474d96848c6f57e5a8
> MD5 (NEWS.1) = eb78c4d053ec9c32b815cf0c2ebea801
> MD5 (NEWS.2) = 591dcf615162127f904e4e461f330ce9
> MD5 (R-latest.tar.gz) = 90d23d138cee26d275da14b58296e521
> MD5 (README) = f468f281c919665e276a1b691decbbe6
> MD5 (RESOURCES) = 529223fd3ffef95731d0a87353108435
> MD5 (THANKS) = bb45f89c01d509721c47fd41f147da60
> MD5 (VERSION-INFO.dcf) = 9c33701e25092aefc1d16beb5858f20f
> MD5 (R-3/R-3.6.2.tar.gz) = 90d23d138cee26d275da14b58296e521
> 
> 
> 2cde824a7b18958e5f06b391c801c8288be0f84fa8934b7ddefef23c67e60c09  AUTHORS
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> 6095e9ffa777dd22839f7801aa845b31c9ed07f3d6bf8a26dc5d2dec8ccc0ef3  COPYING.LIB
> 38219d9c6221ccfbf075ef03711b420a1aa8731f890c8f2337148b602a217c2d  FAQ
> f87461be6cbaecc4dce44ac58e5bd52364b0491ccdadaf846cb9b452e9550f31  INSTALL
> 0ceb6fbab3e0e29bc374683fd5c2ccd0c9c62ce8eca2a394a4603775b3ef129c  NEWS
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> 12b30c724117b1b2b11484673906a6dcd48a361f69fc420b36194f9218692d01  NEWS.1
> ca04f78ffe54afa326fe3ed40e7e1411aca0000ed2fa5ead97ddf51c6aa5b7bc  NEWS.2
> bd65a45cddfb88f37370fbcee4ac8dd3f1aebeebe47c2f968fd9770ba2bbc954  R-latest.tar.gz
> 2fdd3e90f23f32692d4b3a0c0452f2c219a10882033d1774f8cadf25886c3ddc  README
> 408737572ecc6e1135fdb2cf7a9dbb1a6cb27967c757f1771b8c39d1fd2f1ab9  RESOURCES
> 2a8dca916cd92229ef9e328f3610ca204809c262823b860252b42072dac2473a  THANKS
> 40cc7cea5f0e67cf8f2f7b25a534ae6bc53f38eae2ab2c2649a952ed37f0654a  VERSION-INFO.dcf
> bd65a45cddfb88f37370fbcee4ac8dd3f1aebeebe47c2f968fd9770ba2bbc954  R-3/R-3.6.2.tar.gz
> 
> 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.
> 
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