R 3.4.4 is released

[Peter Dalgaard]

The build system rolled up R-3.4.4.tar.gz (codename "Someone to Lean On") this morning.

This is intended to be the last of the 3.4.x release series. The list below details the changes.

You can get the source code from

http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.4.4.tar.gz

or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you.

Binaries for various platforms will appear in due course.


For the R Core Team,

Peter Dalgaard



These are the checksums (md5 and SHA-256) for the freshly created files, in case you wish
to check that they are uncorrupted:

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MD5 (R-3/R-3.4.4.tar.gz) = 9d6f73be072531e95884c7965ff80cd8

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This is the relevant part of the NEWS file

CHANGES IN R 3.4.4:

  NEW FEATURES:

    * Sys.timezone() tries more heuristics on Unix-alikes and so is
      more likely to succeed (especially on Linux).  For the slowest
      method, a warning is given recommending that TZ is set to avoid
      the search.

    * The version of LAPACK included in the sources has been updated to
      3.8.0 (for the routines used by R, a very minor bug-fix change).

    * parallel::detectCores(logical = FALSE) is ignored on Linux
      systems, since the information is not available with virtualized
      OSes.

  INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE:

    * configure will use pkg-config to find the flags to link to jpeg
      if available (as it should be for the recently-released jpeg-9c
      and libjpeg-turbo).  (This amends the code added in R 3.3.0 as
      the module name in jpeg-9c is not what that tested for.)

  DEPRECATED AND DEFUNCT:

    * Sys.timezone(location = FALSE) (which was a stop-gap measure for
      Windows long ago) is deprecated.  It no longer returns the value
      of environment variable TZ (usually a location).

    * Legacy support of make macros such as CXX1X is formally
      deprecated: use the CXX11 forms instead.

  BUG FIXES:

    * power.prop.test() now warns when it cannot solve the problem,
      typically because of impossible constraints. (PR#17345)

    * removeSource() no longer erroneously removes NULL in certain
      cases, thanks to D'enes T'oth.

    * nls(`NO [mol/l]` ~ f(t)) and nls(y ~ a) now work.  (Partly from
      PR#17367)

    * R CMD build checks for GNU cp rather than assuming Linux has it.
      (PR#17370 says 'Alpine Linux' does not.)

    * Non-UTF-8 multibyte character handling fixed more permanently
      (PR#16732).

    * sum(<large ints>, <stuff>) is more consistent.  (PR#17372)

    * rf() and rbeta() now also work correctly when ncp is not scalar,
      notably when (partly) NA.  (PR#17375)

    * R CMD INSTALL now correctly sets C++ compiler flags when all
      source files are in sub-directories of src.
-- 
Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
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