[Rd] R 4.5.2 is released

[Roland Rau]

Dear All,

Thank you very much for all your hard work. I am always looking forward 
to the release dates since I am compiling each version of R on my local 
computer for more than 15 years.
This time, unfortunately, I have some difficulties already when 
extracting. When I do the recommended:
tar -xf R-4.5.2.tar.gz

I get the following message (more than 5300 times, but I think it is 
enough to include it once):

tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 
'LIBARCHIVE.xattr.com.apple.provenance'

Despite, my experience, I can not exclude the possibility that I made a 
silly mistake.
If it is important, I am running Ubuntu Linux:
uname --all
Linux Roland-Desktop 6.14.0-34-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 
Wed Sep 17 09:21:29 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks,
Roland


On 10/31/25 10:37, Peter Dalgaard via R-devel wrote:
> The build system rolled up R-4.5.2.tar.gz and .xz (codename “[Not] Part in a Rumble") this morning.
> 
> This is a patch release with a handful of minor changes and fixups.
> 
> 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-4.5.2.tar.gz
> https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.5.2.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.
> 
> 
> 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) = 07651d43d483521300ca8d68fc797522
> MD5 (build-dist.log) = 17ede9885c430a328311caad24c56f4f
> MD5 (COPYING) = eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a
> MD5 (COPYING.LIB) = a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343
> MD5 (FAQ) = 509204af252e96df0f9c5232667136a9
> MD5 (INSTALL) = 7893f754308ca31f1ccf62055090ad7b
> MD5 (NEWS) = 18bce771d4e443d0b62e872b703c78c9
> MD5 (NEWS.0) = bfcd7c147251b5474d96848c6f57e5a8
> MD5 (NEWS.1) = f8466e418dec6b958b4ce484a13f9a9d
> MD5 (NEWS.2) = 05e4a57b645e651ba13019c3cf5c495f
> MD5 (NEWS.3) = 082abfc2fdc36912075e78b92fb2941e
> MD5 (R-latest.tar.gz) = 12a63b32a9ec2f7392800e97d792e2aa
> MD5 (R-latest.tar.xz) = ae80231a9384f7d807be9e40e69d57e4
> MD5 (README) = e8e5ee38544d34409177cd479025fe66
> MD5 (RESOURCES) = 94ab0226460af048446af1041a23771b
> MD5 (THANKS) = 61d146aa6a2cf5999295b2fb340991c1
> MD5 (VERSION-INFO.dcf) = ca20f4641a7787e364a62ff7c3225a7a
> MD5 (R-4/R-4.5.2.tar.gz) = 12a63b32a9ec2f7392800e97d792e2aa
> MD5 (R-4/R-4.5.2.tar.xz) = ae80231a9384f7d807be9e40e69d57e4
> 
> b87c4dfcb4300f8af91009e2473f2ee5747e9e199df353c90146cba2aee8f444  AUTHORS
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> 5f9f622d2febc0bfbe5381599f2fba7dcfae3b372d48988ee30f474e86290ffa  FAQ
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> 7333362de80815928966701af5a44529d73ba89f043382ffb882992c2489e24c  NEWS
> 4e21b62f515b749f80997063fceab626d7258c7d650e81a662ba8e0640f12f62  NEWS.0
> 602f3a40ef759c7b2a6c485a33dc674af34249644ac5fb53b21283d4e12e808d  NEWS.1
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> eb473efd365822e7ae64eb0f86028ea019815fdd273fe7daa9c6fe5e28fd2737  NEWS.3
> 87a41ce9b50e096dd2c4282f48efea30c9916fcb7b167fa2bc988c9cf3cb6642  R-latest.tar.gz
> 6d156245dfad11e65a4787e867977ecd12135a04247480040a20e54ed768b694  R-latest.tar.xz
> f5aa875c23185cbfc3a50739d7295b0caba2cf0e38ba082850be338cc9541154  README
> fa76f82f7e3664afa4394623afedbc696a2ee90925be65ca57fc9e4b399f3ed6  RESOURCES
> 1d5064c86b6813865a033763f43212064c0a67ef05f5af13b13c4feb08264a33  THANKS
> 0e9ec007b2b9170e43fd4996ee6ff6668d39cb37b9c5ff84132c534f861469f7  VERSION-INFO.dcf
> 87a41ce9b50e096dd2c4282f48efea30c9916fcb7b167fa2bc988c9cf3cb6642  R-4/R-4.5.2.tar.gz
> 6d156245dfad11e65a4787e867977ecd12135a04247480040a20e54ed768b694  R-4/R-4.5.2.tar.xz
> 
> This is the relevant part of the NEWS file
> 
> CHANGES IN R 4.5.2:
> 
>    UTILITIES:
> 
>      • R CMD check now handles archives with extension .tar or .tar.zstd
>        (where zstd compression is supported by the R build).
> 
>    BUG FIXES:
> 
>      • t.test(c(1:3, Inf)) and similar no longer produce an error but
>        return a (still not so useful) "htest" result, fixing PR#18901,
>        thanks to Jesse Alderliesten.
> 
>      • attr(., "tsp") <- val now uses getOption("ts.eps") instead of
>        hardwired 1e-5; consequently, ts(.., ts.eps=*) now passes ts.eps
>        to the "tsp" setting C code; both fixing a long-standing ‘FIXME’.
> 
>      • insertSource() now ignores the internal .packageName object,
>        avoiding a superfluous message.
> 
>      • In static HTML help, links to vignette files from the default
>        doc/index.html page now also work for packages not installed in
>        the default .Library, thanks to a report by Patrice Kiener.
> 
>      • fixInNamespace("<S3method>") failed to update the S3 methods
>        table when the generic was not on the search path.
> 
>      • In plain-text help (Rd2txt), an initial newline from an Rd inline
>        \eqn no longer breaks the paragraph.
> 
>      • hist(*, log = "x") now works without a warning, thanks to Martin
>        Smith's PR#18921.
> 
>      • Subassigning "POSIXlt", i.e., <tdat>[i] <- val and <tdat>[[i]] <-
>        val now rebalance as they should, thanks to Mikael Jagan's
>        PR#18919.
> 
>      • <POSIXlt>[*] (re-)setting "balanced", fixing PR#18681 comment #7,
>        thanks to Mikael Jagan.
> 
>      • All four of {col,row}{Sums,Means}(Z, na.rm=TRUE) now correctly
>        work with complex Z where is.na(Re(Z)) differs from is.na(Im(Z)),
>        fixing PR#18942, unearthed by Dirk Eddelbuettel.
> 
>      • Fix for glyph rendering on the quartz() device when there is
>        other (“normal”) text drawn on the device.  The problem was that
>        the text transformation matrix was not reset so glyphs would be
>        rendered incorrectly (often completely outside the device, i.e.,
>        not visible).
> 
>      • Functions install.packages() and download.packages() again
>        consult option download.file.method when the download method is
>        unspecified.
> 
>      • Tanguy Barthelemy and colleagues at the ‘R Dev Day’ following
>        Rencontres R in May 2025 extended the help page of lm(), fixing
>        PR#18058.  As suggested by Thomas Soeiro, such notes were also
>        added to the glm(), poly() and splines::bs() and ns() pages.
> 
>      • lbeta(1i, 1) now signals an error, as lbeta() is not implemented
>        for complex, fixing PR#18946 from Ben Bolker and Kasper
>        Kristensen.
> 
>      • The Cairo-based SVG device uses pt as the default document unit
>        also with Cairo >= 1.17.8 (PR#18912).
> 
>      • pretty(*, eps.correct = 2) has been fixed, e.g., to avoid over 1
>        million length result for pretty(c(0, 1e-322), eps.correct = 2).
> 
>      • When "POSIXlt" date-time objects are NA-padded from subsetting or
>        increasing length in the `[` or `length<-` methods, the
>        "balanced" attribute is set to NA, now; noted in PR#18681, thanks
>        to Mikael Jagan.
> 
> 
> 

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