replacement function with a double value.

Most aspects of indexing are available.  Generally

double-valued indices can be used to access elements beyond

There is some support for matrices and arrays with each

elements more than that.  Only some aspects of matrix algebra work

for such matrices, often taking a very long time.  In other cases

the underlying Fortran code has an unstated restriction (as was

can produce dissimilarity objects for more

to allow long vectors to be supported (now or in

the future).  Regrettably several packages had copied the non-API

inputs.  This is a precaution as it is very unlikely that existing

code will have been written to handle long vectors (and the

long vectors (slowly except for radix sorting).

can do uniform sampling from a long vector.

entry points, which is more efficient as the address is provided

by the loader once only when the package is loaded.

Since these entry points are always accessed by the

points they do not need to be in the load table which can be

substantially smaller and hence searched faster.  This does mean

may no longer work -- but they were never

makes fewer copies if the input has dimnames.

Most of the linear algebra functions make fewer copies when

the input(s) are not double (e.g., integer or logical).

argument will only look in the first DLL

searching all loaded DLLs.  A few packages needed

operator is now implemented as a primitive,

which should reduce some copying of objects when used.  Note that

the operator object must now be in package

The transitional support for installing packages without

package will be ignored (with an installation warning for now).

Package vignettes can now be processed by other engines

tangled source code for vignettes is now

produced at install time, but eventually this will be dropped.

the repository without any Mac subtype (which used to be

the compiler in use can be changed by setting just these (and if

This is convenient for those working with binary distributions of

in compiled code, and has been able to find the