Tag: 3.2.1

R 3.2.1 is released

R 3.2.1 (codename “World-Famous Astronaut”) was released yesterday. You can get the latest binaries version from here. (or the .tar.gz source code from here). The full list of new features and bug fixes is provided below.

Upgrading to R 3.2.1 on Windows

If you are using Windows you can easily upgrade to the latest version of R using the installr package. Simply run the following code in Rgui:

install.packages("installr") # install 
installr::updateR() # updating R.

Running “updateR()” will detect if there is a new R version available, and if so it will download+install it (etc.). There is also a step by step tutorial (with screenshots) on how to upgrade R on Windows, using the installr package.

I try to keep the installr package updated and useful, so if you have any suggestions or remarks on the package – you are invited to open an issue in the github page.

CHANGES IN R 3.2.1:

 

NEW FEATURES

  • utf8ToInt() now checks that its input is valid UTF-8 and returns NA if it is not.
  • install.packages() now allows type = "both" with repos = NULL if it can infer the type of file.
  • nchar(x, *) and nzchar(x) gain a new argument keepNA which governs how the result for NAs in x is determined. For the R 3.2.x series, the default remains FALSE which is fully back compatible. From R 3.3.0, the default will change to keepNA = NA and you are advised to consider this for code portability.
  • news() more flexibly extracts dates from package ‘NEWS.Rd’ files.
  • lengths(x) now also works (trivially) for atomic x and hence can be used more generally as an efficient replacement of sapply(x, length) and similar.
  • The included version of PCRE has been updated to 8.37, a bug-fix release.
  • diag() no longer duplicates a matrix when extracting its diagonal.
  • as.character.srcref() gains an argument to allow characters corresponding to a range of source references to be extracted.

BUG FIXES

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