accumulator of at least 64 bits and so will be more accurate in

the very rare case that a cumulative sum exceeds

(necessarily summing more than 4 million

examples.  (Suggested by Peter Solymos.)

is considerably faster for very large lists,

or factors with 100,000 levels, the latter as in

now converts factors to character strings

not integer codes (suggested by Bryan Hanson).

There is now support for the LaTeX style file

which has in some distributions replaced

to give information about installed vignettes.

Profiling now records non-inlined calls from byte-compiled

non-standard evaluation are now more careful to follow the

search path or if some package defines a function of that name.

encountered in the workspace it is ignored with a warning rather

partial parse information available up to the location of the

dynamic parent to the generic. This was causing trouble where S3

methods invoked via lazy evaluation could lose track of their

Code for the negative binomial distribution now treats the case

the result, to avoid misuse creating invalid objects as in

.  A warning is given if a class is discarded.

allow more tests to be run without recommended packages being

The initialization of the regression coefficients for

changed and in some examples avoids a local maximum.  (

to control the display of individual terms in the plot.

, which returns a logical value indicating whether

Processing Sweave and Rd documents to PDF now renders

backticks and single quotes better in several instances, including

components in the replacement to be retained,

instead of causing corresponding components to be deleted.

, it will warn when it appears a vignette requests

usage and examples sections of the package Rd files.

not from GNU, OpenCSW on Solaris installs it as

adds execute permission to the recorded permissions for these

files if needed, with a warning.  This is useful on OSes and file

systems which do not support execute permissions (notably, on

so suggested packages are not required during package installation

if the source tarball was prepared with current