produced an incorrect error message when

Binary operations on equal length vectors copied the

class name from the second operand when the first had no

class name, but did not set the object bit. (

failed after those objects became function definitions.

constructed correctly, and so caused a segment fault when

The internal HTTP server no longer chokes on POST requests

without body. It will also pass-through other request types for

custom handlers (with the method stored in Request-Method header)

Packages need to be (re-)installed under this version

There is a subtle change in behaviour for numeric index

warning.  They are now legal for long vectors so there is no

vector on a 64-bit platform and give an error on a 32-bit one.

It is now possible for 64-bit builds to allocate amounts of

memory limited only by the OS.  It may be wise to use OS

environment.  A number of packages need a limit of at least 4GB of

to the amount of RAM installed: this limit can be changed by

Negative numbers for colours are consistently an error:

previously they were sometimes taken as transparent, sometimes

mapped into the current palette and sometimes an error.

compiled code.  If true (which can be enabled by setting the

integer, double and complex arguments are always copied, and

checked for writing off either end of the array on return from the

compiled code (when a second copy is made).  This also checks

individual elements of character vectors passed to

This is not intended for routine use, but can be very helpful in

which is representable as an integer (as often happens for package

Matrix indexing of data frames by two-column numeric indices

is now supported for replacement as well as extraction.

argument, useful for a character result.

component of the result: the previous definition is

always warned of a lack of comparability of log-likelihoods for

non-stationary models.  (Suggested by Jouni Helske.)

It is now possible to use a formula stored in a variable;

previously, it had to be given explicitly in the function call.