[R-SIG-Mac] Call to test current R 2.13.0 beta and RCs - especially new GUI features!

[Simon Urbanek]

It's the time of the year to test the new upcoming R release, but this time I'd like to ask as many users as possible to give the new R a spin, because there are many new features in the Mac GUI which increases the likelihood of bugs. It can be downloaded, as usual, from

http://r.research.att.com/

and for those of you that like deep links you probably want

http://r.research.att.com/R-2.13-branch-leopard.pkg

The new features in R itself can be found in the usual place, but this time the focus is also on the GUI and you can get list of new features in the GUI at
https://svn.r-project.org/R-packages/trunk/Mac-GUI/NEWS
Essentially the internal editor has been much re-written thanks to Hans-Jörg Bibiko and thus is much faster, more versatile (encoding selection, better auto-competion) and features shortcuts you know from Xcode (like <Ctrl><H> for help on the current function). Other parts have been improved as well, help pages are now searchable and so is the history, you can use <Cmd><Enter> in most web views and other lists like Data Manager can be sorted. Finally, for your safety document auto-save feature has been added such that open documents are automatically restored even in the [unlikely ;)] case of an R crash.

So, please, consider testing the release candidates in the next week or two and report any bugs you should find. This is true both for R itself and the R.app GUI.

Thanks,
Simon