R 4.3.2 is now the default version on migale
CHANGES IN R 4.3.2
NEW FEATURES
-
The default initialization of the
"repos"
option from the ‘repositories’ file at startup can be skipped by setting environment variable R_REPOSITORIES toNULL
such thatgetOption("repos")
is empty if not set elsewhere. -
qr.X()
is now an implicit S4 generic in methods. -
iconv(to = "ASCII//TRANSLIT")
is emulated using substitution on platforms which do not support it (notably Alpine Linux). This should give a human-readable conversion in ASCII on all platforms (rather thanNA_character_
). -
trans3d()
gains optionscontinuous
andverbose
addressing the problem of possible “wrap around” when projecting too long curves, as reported by Achim Zeileis in PR#18537. -
tools::showNonASCII()
has been rewritten to work better on macOS 14 (which has a changed implementation oficonv()
). -
tiff(type = "quartz")
(the default on macOS) now warns ifcompression
is specified: it continues to be ignored.
INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE
-
There is some support for building with Intel's LLVM-based compilers on ‘x86_64’ Linux, such as (C)
icx
, (C++)ipcx
and (Fortran)ifx
from oneAPI 2023.x.y. -
There is support for using LLVM's
flang-new
as the Fortran compiler from LLVM 16.0.x (preferably 17.0.0 or later).
UTILITIES
-
R CMD check
reports the use of the Fortran 90 random number generatorRANDOM_NUMBER()
and the subroutines to initialize it.‘Writing R Extensions’ has example code to use R's RNGs from Fortran.
BUG FIXES
-
substr(x, n, L) <- cc
now works (more) correctly for multibyte UTF-8 stringsx
whenL > nchar(x)
, thanks to a report and patch by ‘Architect 95’. -
contrib.url(character())
now returns 0-lengthcharacter()
as documented, which also avoids spurious warnings fromavailable.packages()
et al. in the edge case of an empty vector of repository URLs. -
readChar(., 4e8)
no longer fails, thanks to Kodi Arfer's report (PR#18557). -
lapply(<list>, as.data.frame)
no longer warns falsely for some base vector components. -
Communication between parent and child processes in the
multicore
part ofparallel
could fail on platforms that do not support an arbitrarily large payload in system functionsread()
/write()
on pipes (seen on macOS where a restriction toINT_MAX
bytes is documented, without doing a partial read unlike Linux). The payload is now split into 1Gb chunks to avoid that problem. (PR#18571) -
qqplot(x,y, conf.level=.)
gives better confidence bounds whenlength(x) != length(y)
, thanks to Alexander Ploner's report and patch proposal (PR#18557). -
norm(<0-length>, "2")
now gives zero instead of an error, as all the other norm types, thanks to Mikael Jagan's PR#18542. -
Build-stage Rd macros
\packageAuthor
and\packageMaintainer
now process ‘Authors@R’, fixing ‘NA’ results when the package ‘DESCRIPTION’ omits ‘Author’ and ‘Maintainer’ fields. -
Formatting and printing complex numbers could give things like ‘0.1683-0i’ because of rounding error: ‘-0i’ is now replaced by ‘+0i’.
-
postscript()
refused to accept atitle
comment containing the letter “W” (PR#18599). -
isoreg(c(1,Inf))
signals an error instead of segfaulting, fixing PR#18603. -
tiff(type = "Xlib")
was only outputting the last page of multi-page plots. -
tools::latexToUtf8()
again knows about ‘\~{n}’ and other letters with tilde, fixing a regression in R 4.3.0, and about ‘\^{i}’ as an alternative to ‘\^{\i}’ (similarly with other accents). Furthermore, LaTeX codes for accented I letters are now correctly converted, also fixing related mistakes intools::encoded_text_to_latex()
. -
tar(*, tar = "internal")
no longer creates out-of-spec tar files in the very rare case of user or group names longer than 32 bytes, fixing PR#17871 with thanks to Ivan Krylov. -
When using the “internal” timezone datetime code, adding a fraction of a second no longer adds one second, fixing PR#16856 from a patch by Ivan Krylov.
-
tools::checkRd()
no longer produces spurious notes about “unnecessary braces” from multi-line Rd results of\Sexpr
macros.
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