The HTML help page for a package now displays non-vignette

documentation files in a more accessible format.

now detects tables with 0-extents and prints the results as, e.g.,

Deparsing involving calls to anonymous functions has been

made closer to reversible by the addition of extra parentheses.

namespaces preferentially in the same way as attached packages

In Windows, the Change Directory dialog now defaults to

the current working directory, rather than to the last directory

for which installation can proceed solely based on packages which

for conveniently checking source packages along with

R's completion mechanism has been improved to handle help

requests (starting with a question mark).  In particular, help

prefixes are now supported, as well as quoted help topics.  To

support this, completion inside quotes are now handled by R by

The memory manager now allows the strategy used to balance

garbage collection and memory growth to be controlled by setting

says.)  The use of environment variables

to control the initial (= minimum) garbage

collection trigger for number of cons cels and size of heap has

been restored: they can be overridden by the command-line options

On Windows, the device name for bitmap devices as reported

name.   This is for consistency with other platforms and was

still uses the file name: the exact form is

done at the beginning of the session if not already set.

a function that returns the breakpoints to be used (previously it

could only return the suggested number of breakpoints).

clarifications, especially as to which variants of

is intended and how to apply them to packages.

This section applies only to 64-bit platforms.

There is support for vectors longer than

elements.  This applies to raw, logical, integer, double,

complex and character vectors, as well as lists.  (Elements of

Most operations which can sensibly be done with long vectors

.  Most of these are because they explicitly work

) or because other limits (e.g., of character strings

or matrix dimensions) would be exceeded or the operations would be