are now also primitive and S3 generic, as

of compression if supported by the platform's

The list of base and recommended package names is now provided by

to catch errors and then continue in non-interactive use.

as documented, now also in the case of no

names the OS knows about (case-insensitively).

(hex) digits, rather than to 4 or 8.  (This seems to have become

the convention once Unicode restricted the number of Unicode

The information for the Euro glyph missing from the Adobe

files for the Courier, Helvetica and Times families

has been copied from their URW equivalents -- this will

The included BLAS sources have been updated to those shipped

with LAPACK version 3.12.0.  The changes are almost entirely cosmetic.

The included LAPACK sources have been updated to version

3.12.0 and some further double-complex routines added.

There are new font families for the 2014--5 URW 2.0 fonts

) which are included in recent versions of

Ghostscript.  These have font widths for most Greek glyphs and a

few others which were missing from the original versions (whose

font families remain available for reproducibility, although

Ghostscript-based viewers will render using the 2.0 versions).

thanks an R contributors effort, notably by Tim Taylor and

.  Also, it is now an implicit S4 generic in

method which can be used to sort rows of a

have been updated to use the GPL-compatible

licence published by Oracle America in 2010.

single-page HTML reference manuals for R packages.

The byte code evaluator now uses less C stack space for

recursive calls to byte-compiled functions. It also makes more of

an effort to avoid allocations for scalar return values.

allows non-syntactic completions to be wrapped in backquotes. This

package, and may cause problems for other backends.

The numeric version creators now stop on invalid

The parser has been updated to work with

which is now used for the pre-generated parsers in

have changed, which may affect code that relies on exact messages.

valgrind headers are now required to use

build, as that is nowadays almost untested.