[R] SuSE rpms for 1.6.1 uploaded to CRAN

[Detlef Steuer]

SuSE rpms of R-base-1.6.1 including recommended packages for versions 7.3, 8.0,
8.1 of SuSEs Linux have been uploaded to Vienna.
They should appear on CRAN within 24 hours.

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On 01-Nov-2002 Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> 
> I've rolled up R-1.6.1.tgz a short while ago. This is a minor upgrade,
> fixing an assortment of minor bugs, and one major one: 1.6.0
> introduced a memory leak in deparsing, causing much trouble for people
> running simulations.
> 
> You can get it from the developer site at
> 
> http://cvs.r-project.org/pub/CRAN/src/base/R-1.6.1.tgz
> 
> or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site near you. Binaries for
> various platforms will appear in due course.
>  
> There is also a version split for floppies, but due to the inclusion
> of recommended packages as binary .tar.gz files, I'm no longer
> providing a patch file.
> 
> 
>         For the R Core Team,
> 
>         Peter D.
> 
> 
> Here's the relevant part of the NEWS file:
> 
> 
>                 CHANGES IN R VERSION 1.6.1
> 
> 
> NEW FEATURES
> 
>     o   Added a few "trivial and obviously missing" functions to tcltk:
>         tkchooseDirectory, tkpopup, tkdialog, tkread
> 
>     o   barplot() has a new argument `axis.lty', which if set to 1
>         allows the pre-1.6.0 behaviour of plotting the axis and tick
>         marks for the categorical axis.  (This was apparently not
>         intentional, but axis() used to ignore lty=0.)
>         The argument `border' is no longer ".NotYetUsed".
> 
> 
> BUG FIXES
> 
>     o   hist(<datetime>, cex.axis = f)  now works for x-axis too.
> 
>     o   prompt() gave wrong \usage{.} for long argument default expressions.
> 
>     o   summary(x) gives more information when `x' is a logical
>         (or a data frame with a logical column which is now quite customary).
> 
>     o   seq.POSIXt(from, to, length.out= . ) could give too long results
> 
>     o   summaryRprof() was counting nested calls to the same function
>         twice.
> 
>     o   Printing of objects of mode "expression" did strange things if
>         there were "%" characters in the deparsed expression (PR#2120).
> 
>     o   as.matrix.data.frame converted missings to "NA" not character NA.
>         (PR#2130)
> 
>     o   spec.pgram() was only interpolating zero freq for one series.
> (PR#2123)
> 
>     o   help(randu) had % unescaped in the example. (PR#2141)
> 
>     o   Making html links would fail if packages-head.html was not
>         writeable. (PR#2133)
> 
>     o   Sweave.sty was not installed to $R_HOME/share/texmf when
>         builddir != srcdir. On Windows backslashes in latex paths have
>         to be replaced by slashes.
> 
>     o   A memory leak in deparsing was introduced when eliminating
>         static variables (thanks to Achim Zeileis for spotting this).
>         A similar problem in loading workspaces has been corrected.
> 
>     o   TclInterface.Rd incorrectly used \synopsis for \usage so that
>         the usage section wasn't output.
> 
>     o   Readline stack off-by-one error. (PR#2165)
> 
>     o   R_ExpandFileName had a memory leak in the case libreadline was
>         used under Unix-alikes.
> 
>     o   sys.save.image() now closes all connections so it will work even
>         if the connection list has become full.
> 
>     o   loess() had an unstated limit of four predictors: this is now
>         documented and enforced.
> 
>     o   ${R_HOME}/etc/Renviron.site is now not read if R_ENVIRON is
>         set, as documented.  Previously it was read unless R_ENVIRON
>         pointed to an actual file.
> 
>     o   Startup.Rd described the proceesing under Unix-alikes but
>         incorrectly implied it happened that way on the Windows and
>         MacOS ports.  Neither use Renviron.site, for example.
> 
>     o   besselK(x,*) now returns 0 instead of Inf for large x. (PR#2179)
> 
>     o   The Tcl console code didn't work with Tcl/TK 8.0, and has been
>         #ifdef'd out.  (PR#2090)
> 
>     o   format.AsIs() was not handling matrices.
> 
>     o   sd() was not passing na.rm to var() for matrices and data frames.
> 
>     o   dist() {mva} silently treated +/-Inf as NA.
> 
>     o   setwd() now returns NULL invisibly.
> 
>     o   basename() and dirname() did not check the length of their
>         input and ignored elements after the first.  This affected
>         undoc {tools}.
> 
>     o   If A had dimnames, eigen(A) had inappropriate dimnames. (PR#2116)
> 
>     o   as.POSIXct.dates had a sign error for the origin (PR#2222)
> 
>     o   The claim that pie charts should be avoiden (in pie.Rd) is now
>         supported by a quote from Cleveland (1985).
> 
>     o   The vsnprintf() functions supplied for systems that don't
>         supply their own had a bug in the output of fractional parts,
>         corrupting data if using save() with ascii=TRUE. (PR#2144)
> 
>     o   pretty() values close to 0 in some cases which are now 0 (PR#1032
>         and D.Brahm's mails).
> 
> 
> BUILD ISSUES
> 
>     o   Toplevel Makefile was missing dependency of "docs" on "R" (causing
>         parallel makes to go wrong)
> 
>     o   When building with recommended packages those were installed
>         into the first path in R_LIBS, if the environment variable was
>         present.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
>    O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3  
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