[Rd] R 4.5.2 is released

Roland Rau r@u @end|ng |rom demogr@mpg@de
Fri Oct 31 12:08:55 CET 2025


... and as an additional info (maybe this helps more than uname)
tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.35

Thanks,
Roland

On 10/31/25 12:06, Roland Rau wrote:
> 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
>> 01c295a3cb6912ac60e4310af5e223e3ebebc4b767abfbf02c7c1e8e96706e0d  
>> build-dist.log
>> e6d6a009505e345fe949e1310334fcb0747f28dae2856759de102ab66b722cb4  COPYING
>> 6095e9ffa777dd22839f7801aa845b31c9ed07f3d6bf8a26dc5d2dec8ccc0ef3  
>> COPYING.LIB
>> 5f9f622d2febc0bfbe5381599f2fba7dcfae3b372d48988ee30f474e86290ffa  FAQ
>> f87461be6cbaecc4dce44ac58e5bd52364b0491ccdadaf846cb9b452e9550f31  INSTALL
>> 7333362de80815928966701af5a44529d73ba89f043382ffb882992c2489e24c  NEWS
>> 4e21b62f515b749f80997063fceab626d7258c7d650e81a662ba8e0640f12f62  NEWS.0
>> 602f3a40ef759c7b2a6c485a33dc674af34249644ac5fb53b21283d4e12e808d  NEWS.1
>> 7babb6d82a4479b2c3803f7dbfaab63125b0f0d1b6bb40b1389d3af65eaf83aa  NEWS.2
>> 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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