[R] R 4.0.2 is released

Wed Jun 24 07:27:04 CEST 2020

My current version of R is 3.6.3, there is no problem of installing packages there. I also have no problem installing bioconductor packages with 3.6.3. 

But installing packages from biocondcutor failed as well on 4.0.2 (also tried 4.0.0 and failed, too)

On Tuesday, June 23, 2020, 08:56:45 PM PDT, array chip via R-help <r-help using r-project.org> wrote: 

Hi,

I downloaded R4.0.2 and installed it succesffully without any error. However, when I opened up a R session (using x64) and tried to install packages, I got the following error message:

> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
Warning: failed to download mirrors file (internet routines cannot be loaded); using local file 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.2/doc/CRAN_mirrors.csv'
Warning: unable to access index for repository https://rweb.crmda.ku.edu/cran/src/contrib:
  internet routines cannot be loaded
Error in install.packages(lib = .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA, type = type) : 
  argument "pkgs" is missing, with no default
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
  unable to load shared object 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.2/modules/x64/internet.dll':
  LoadLibrary failure:  Access is denied.

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18363)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.0.2 tools_4.0.2   

However, if I load up a session using i386 verson, then everything is ok - I can install packages.

Can you and anyone suggest what is going on?

Thanks,

John

On Monday, June 22, 2020, 01:24:20 AM PDT, Peter Dalgaard via R-help <r-help using r-project.org> wrote: 

The build system rolled up R-4.0.2.tar.gz (codename "Taking Off Again") 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-4/R-4.0.2.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) = 4afa171cd982aaa60f0ba92e2e7bc5d6
MD5 (INSTALL) = 7893f754308ca31f1ccf62055090ad7b
MD5 (NEWS) = 566a6bb3642e28e6bf01cf98db31137c
MD5 (NEWS.0) = bfcd7c147251b5474d96848c6f57e5a8
MD5 (NEWS.1) = eb78c4d053ec9c32b815cf0c2ebea801
MD5 (NEWS.2) = 496062c138e2def06cebccddfb814ac6
MD5 (NEWS.3) = 012e7f4a80cc8ec947bf3f0ff6117ec8
MD5 (R-latest.tar.gz) = 1eac7293d5fe313a56ddabfda02b437e
MD5 (README) = f468f281c919665e276a1b691decbbe6
MD5 (RESOURCES) = 529223fd3ffef95731d0a87353108435
MD5 (THANKS) = 251d20510bfc3cc93b82c5a99f7efcc6
MD5 (VERSION-INFO.dcf) = 62496d3a0fd8cc2ed644ea518c052371
MD5 (R-4/R-4.0.2.tar.gz) = 1eac7293d5fe313a56ddabfda02b437e

2cde824a7b18958e5f06b391c801c8288be0f84fa8934b7ddefef23c67e60c09  AUTHORS
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eddf87b12197c7b3b19cbc9b11c1beab95b14e3dcd715bf37d2f6a8b2a72c2a1  FAQ
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ec05bba338358410fae6b34fed061605989ab3601aba1b3fcb45a610d5dd2eb9  NEWS
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12b30c724117b1b2b11484673906a6dcd48a361f69fc420b36194f9218692d01  NEWS.1
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7201d139947afa52b5e09d26dc01445edf444506264355b2185122bc1ed3dce0  NEWS.3
d3bceab364da0876625e4097808b42512395fdf41292f4915ab1fd257c1bbe75  R-latest.tar.gz
2fdd3e90f23f32692d4b3a0c0452f2c219a10882033d1774f8cadf25886c3ddc  README
408737572ecc6e1135fdb2cf7a9dbb1a6cb27967c757f1771b8c39d1fd2f1ab9  RESOURCES
c9c7cb32308b4e560a22c858819ade9de524a602abd4e92d1c328c89f8037d73  THANKS
10cc5f566a4a5ce49147e7dcfbe9180dba09ccb9efb17298b067309eb799e92e  VERSION-INFO.dcf
d3bceab364da0876625e4097808b42512395fdf41292f4915ab1fd257c1bbe75  R-4/R-4.0.2.tar.gz

This is the relevant part of the NEWS file

CHANGES IN R 4.0.2:

  UTILITIES:

    * R CMD check skips vignette re-building (with a warning) if the
      VignetteBuilder package(s) are not available.

  BUG FIXES:

    * Paths with non-ASCII characters caused problems for package
      loading on Windows PR#17833.

    * Using tcltk widgets no longer crashes R on Windows.

    * source(*, echo=TRUE) no longer fails in some cases with empty
      lines; reported by Bill Dunlap in PR#17769.

    * on.exit() now correctly matches named arguments, thanks to
      PR#17815 (including patch) by Brodie Gaslam.

    * regexpr(*, perl=TRUE) no longer returns incorrect positions into
      text containing characters outside of the Unicode Basic
      Multilingual Plane on Windows.

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