routines have been added at the request of a package maintainer.

As before, the details of what is included are in

has been made considerably more efficient

without changing functionality, thanks to proposals from Peter

some similar cases directly rather than as calls to

Reference class finalizers run at exit, as well as on

The radix sort algorithm and implementation from

(counting) sort and adds a new method for

Contributed by Matt Dowle and Arun Srinivasan, the new algorithm

supports logical, integer (even with large values), real, and

character vectors.  It outperforms all other methods, but there

stably rearranges data so that identical values are adjacent.  The

return value includes extra partitioning information on the

groups.  The implementation came included with the new radix sort.

one of the three parameters exceeds the maximal integer.

now warns when no alternatives are provided.

on all platforms -- as this was the default on Windows,

versions of OS X (for the latter, thanks to a suggestion of Kyaw

would sometimes give misleading labels on the breaks, as they

were set to the day before the start of the period being

displayed.  The display format has been changed, and the shift of the

now uses a new version of the logo (donated to the R

Foundation by RStudio).  It is defined in

will resize without unnecessary degradation when displayed on

HTML pages---there is also a vector PDF version.  Thanks to

Dirk Eddelbuettel for producing the corresponding X11 icon.

the size of points separately from the size of plot labels.

Thanks to Michael Friendly and Milan Bouchet-Valat for ideas

the connection as text-oriented (so e.g.

works).  It is still always opened in binary mode.

character vector (after substituting symbols for strings). See

attached.  Functions from default packages other than

which are used in the package code but not imported are reported

as undefined globals, with a suggested addition to the

external (usually system) versions are required (see the

The unexported and undocumented Windows-only devices