installer, so can be omitted if desired.

The markup for many messages has been changed to make them

easier to translate, incorporating suggestions from Łukasz Daniel.

There is again support for building without using the C

type.  This is required by C99, but system

implementations can be slow or flawed.  Use

and install the full reference index (including all base and

The 'reference manual' on the Windows GUI menu and included

in the installer is now the full reference index, including all

help pages and manuals have no ISBNs because ISBN

rules no longer allow constantly changing content to be assigned

The Windows installer no longer installs a Start Menu

link to the static help pages; as most pages are generated

dynamically, this led to a lot of broken links.

Any custom settings for Java configuration are recorded in

On Windows, the stack size is reduced to 16MB on 32-bit

systems: misguided users were launching many threads without

harder to do so in the encoding specified for the package (rather

layout cell, where the layout is within a viewport that has zero

physical width OR where the layout has zero total relative width

(likewise for height).  The layout column widths (or row heights)

in this case were being calculated with non-finite values.

accepts logical matrices (as documented, and

Parse errors when installing files now correctly display

the name of the file containing the bad code.

In Windows, tcltk windows were not always properly constructed.

reentrant, leading to errors in rare circumstances such as a

garbage collection triggering a recursive call.

Field assignments in reference class objects via

because the magic incantation to turn methods on for that

primitive operator had been inadvertently omitted.

hook to be the value, rather than a list containing the value as

package index page did not link to it.  (Reported by Dirk

checking the class of the replacement.  It now does a check,

the same way as vectors.  (Reported by Martin Morgan.)

pbeta(.28, 1/2, 2200, lower.tail=FALSE, log.p=TRUE)

attempted to load the graphics history from a variable that was

arguments are (integer or character vectors) of

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