greater than one to indicate the maximum number of cores to be

used in parallel. (It is worth specifying at least 8 cores if

Except on Windows: the tests of standard package examples in

are done in parallel.  This also applies to

The more time-consuming regression tests are done in parallel.

are not installed: but recommended packages remain needed for

has been updated.  (Formerly used only on

The included (64-bit) time-zone conversion code and Olson

time-zone database can be used instead of the system version: use

is the default on Windows and OS X.  (Note that this does not

(It might be necessary to set environment variable

OSes where this is not already set, although the system timezone is

deduced correctly on at least Linux, OS X and Windows.)

This option also switches to the version of

now tests for a C++11-compliant compiler

by testing some basic features.  This by default tries flags for

options and standard can be specified by variables

can now optionally be compiled to use reference

library: at present this means a version

repository on Windows: all the binary versions of packages from

from Omegahat and elsewhere used by CRAN packages.

considered to be vignettes and hence indexed as such.

Help for S4 methods with very long signatures now tries

more than 80 characters per line (some packages had over 120

There is support for compiling C++11 code in packages on

Fake installs now install the contents of directory

: some packages use this to install e.g. C++ headers

for use by other packages that are independent of the package

The behaviour of the code browser has been made more

consistent, in part following the suggestions in

display a short list of available commands.

case-insensitively on all platforms (not just on Windows).

default) can optionally check foreign function calls for

consistency with the registered type and argument count.  This is

string, some other problems are detected for such calls.

have been added to allow package authors to suppress false

packages, and ignores it.  (An Open Source package needs to have