R 3.0.2 (codename “Frisbee Sailing”) was released yesterday. The full list of new features and bug fixes is provided below.
Also, RStudio v0.98 (in a “secret” preview) was announced two days ago with MANY new features, including:
- Amazing new debugging tools(!)
- An engine for creating R presentations. You can see a detailed example for using the new R presentation capabilities in THIS LINK (linking to a presentation on Creating beautiful trees of clusterings with R using the dendextend R package, here is a link to the Rpres source file).
- Various other enhancements (I like the new code folding for markdown headings/sections) and bug-fixes. Follow THIS LINK for a complete list of new features in this recent RStudio release.
Upgrading to R 3.0.2
You can download the latest version from here. Or, if you are using Windows, you can upgrade to the latest version using the installr package (also available on CRAN and github). Simply run the following code:
# installing/loading the package:
if(!require(installr)) {
install.packages("installr"); require(installr)} #load / install+load installr
updateR(to_checkMD5sums = FALSE) # the use of to_checkMD5sums is because of a slight bug in the MD5 file on R 3.0.2. This issue is already resolved in the installr version on github, and will be released into CRAN in about a month from now..
I try to keep the installr package updated and useful. If you have any suggestions or remarks on the package, you’re invited to leave a comment below.
If you use the global library system (as I do), you can run the following in the new version of R:
source("https://www.r-statistics.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/upgrading-R-on-windows.r.txt")
New.R.RunMe()
p.s: you can also use the installr package to quickly install the new RStudio by using:
# installing/loading the package:
if(!require(installr)) {
install.packages("installr"); require(installr)} #load / install+load installr
install.RStudio()