- Upstream release 3.0.3
- Most important
CHANGES IN R 3.0.3:
NEW FEATURES:
* On Windows there is support for making .texi manuals using
texinfo 5.0 or later: the setting is in file
src/gnuwin32/MkRules.dist.
A packaging of the Perl script and modules for texinfo 5.2 has
been made available at .
* write.table() now handles matrices of 2^31 or more elements, for
those with large amounts of patience and disc space.
* There is a new function, La_version(), to report the version of
LAPACK in use.
* The HTML version of 'An Introduction to R' now has links to PNG
versions of the figures.
* There is some support to produce manuals in ebook formats. (See
doc/manual/Makefile. Suggested by Mauro Cavalcanti.)
* On a Unix-alike Sys.timezone() returns NA if the environment
variable TZ is unset, to distinguish it from an empty string
which on some OSes means the UTC time zone.
* The backtick may now be escaped in strings, to allow names
containing them to be constructed, e.g. `\``. (PR#15621)
* read.table(), readLines() and scan() now warn when an embedded
nul is found in the input. (Related to PR#15625 which was
puzzled by the behaviour in this unsupported case.)
* (Windows only.) file.symlink() works around the undocumented
restriction of the Windows system call to backslashes. (Wish of
PR#15631.)
* KalmanForecast(fast = FALSE) is now the default, and the help