[R] version 1.5-1 of Rcmdr package released

[John Fox]

Dear R users,

There is a new version (1.5-1) of the Rcmdr package. Here, from the CHANGES
files, are changes since the last minor version (1.4-0) was released a year
ago:

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Version 1.4-1

   o  The following updated translations have been added: Catalan (thanks to
Manel Salamero), French (thanks to Philippe Grojean), Japanese (thanks to
Takaharu Araki), Romanian (thanks to Adrian Dusa), and Slovenian (thanks to
Jaro.Lajovic).
   
Version 1.4-2

   o  For cases where translated help files of the form Commander-xx.Rd
won't compile (where "xx" is the language code), translators can now provide
a PDF file named Commander-xx.pdf to be substituted when users select Menu
-> Commander help. (Thanks to Alexey Shipunov for helping me with this
problem.)
   
   o  Dialogs that reset the active data set no longer do so if an error
occurs; previously, resetting the active data set caused error messages to
scroll off out of sight in the Messages window (problem reported by Peter
Dalgaard).
   
   o  Improved error checking and protection in distributions dialogs.
   
Version 1.4-3

   o  Fixed a bug in the scroll-bar for the RHS of model formulas (reported
by Ulrich Halekoh).
   
   o  Fixed problem with some legends in plotMeans() (reported by Rich
Heiberger).
   
   o  Updated Spanish translation (courtesy Rcmdr Spanish translation team).
   
Version 1.4-4
   
   o  Small changes to Hist() to make it more flexible (suggested by Gilles
Marcou).
   
Version 1.4-5

   o  Change to Message(), which posts messages to the Message window, to
prevent the window from freezing in (some) Windows systems under R 2.8.0
(problem reported by Rich Heiberger).
   
   o  Updated Indonesian translation (thanks to I. Made Tirta).
   
Version 1.4-6

   o  Added polr and multinom models to effect-plots, consistent with latest
version of effects package.
   
   o  ttkentry() redefined to trim leading and trailing blanks (to avoid
potential problems when user introduces a leading or trailing blank in a
text field, as reported by Rich Heiberger).
   
   o  An attempt is made to break commands at blanks and commas to fit them
in the script and output windows.
   
   o  Improvements to the one-way and multi-way ANOVA dialogs, including
saving the models that are produced (suggested by Rich Heiberger).
   
   o  Improvements and bug fixes to handling of plug-in menu installation.
   
   o  New function MacOSXP() to test for Mac OS X; used to suppress "Data ->
New data set" menu, since the Mac data editor causes R to hang when called
with an empty data frame (reported by Rob Goedman and Tracy Lightcap).
   
   o  When character values are entered in the data editor after "Data ->
New data set", the corresponding variable is converted to a factor.
   
   o  When console.output is TRUE, messages as well as output now go to the
R Console and the Commander Messages window (as well as the Output window)
is suppressed (with code contributed by Richard Heiberger).
   
   o  Small changes.
   
Version 1.4-7
  
   o  Improved Brazilian Portuguese translation, contributed by Adriano
Azevedo-Filho and Marilia Sa Carvalho.
   
   o  Added function sortVarNames(), which sorts variable names including
numerals into a more "natural" order than does sort(); used in variable
lists when the Rcmdr option "sort.names" is TRUE, which is the default.
   
   o  Small changes.
   
Version 1.4-8

   o  Export data set now allows an arbitrary field separator (suggested by
Marilia Sa Carvalho).
   
   o  Menus can now use translation files supplied by plug-ins.
   
   o  Path names with apostrophes should no longer produce an "unbalanced
parentheses" error.
   
   o  Added files for Debian Linux (from Pietro Battiston and Dirk
Eddelbuettel).
	
   o  Small changes.
   
Version 1.4-9

   o  Upated Russian translation (courtesy of Alexey Shipunov).
   
   o  Fixed bug in BreuschPaganTest() that prevented dialog from functioning
(reported by Michel Pouchain).
   
Version 1.4-10

   o  Corrected problem in paste in Command window in non-Windows systems
(reported by Liviu Andronic).
   
   o  Fixed handling of X11 warnings which was disrupted by showData(), and
added check for "Warning in structure" (problems reported by Liviu
Andronic).
   
   o  Prefixes used when output is directed to the R console are no longer
hard-coded, but can be set by the "prefixes" Rcmdr option (to satisfy a
request by Liviu Andronic).

Version 1.4-11

   o  Correction to .mo file for Brazilian Portuguese translation (supplied
by Adriano Azevedo-Filho following report by Donald Pianto).
   
   o  Added summary() output to principal components (suggested by Liviu
Andronic).
   
Version 1.5-0

   o  Added model-selection dialogs, stepwise and subset (several requests).
   
   o  Modifications to model-definition dialogs (suggested by Ulrike
Gromping): If you select several variables in the variable-list box,
clicking on the
+, *, or : button will enter them into the model formula.
   
   o  The compare-models and Anova-table code for GLMs now uses F-tests when
the dispersion parameter is estimated (after a suggstion by Ulrich Halekoh).
   
   o  Added optional pairwise p-values to correlations dialog (several
requests); new rcorr.adjust() function, adapted from code sent by Robert A.
Muenchen.
   
   o  New Library() command for loading packages. Packages generally
attached in position 4, to avoid masking objects in Rcmdr and car.
   
   o  Messages in the Messages window are now numbered, according to the
Rcmdr number.messages option (suggested by Liviu Andronic).
   
   o  Added dialog box to merge rows and columns, along with mergeRows()
function (after a suggestion by Stephen Shamblen).
   
   o  Added aggregate dialog box to aggregate variables by factor(s) (after
a suggestion by Stephen Shamblen).
   
   o  Added variable.list.width option (suggested by Liviu Andronic).
   
   o  Under Windows, a check is made for the mdi and a warning message
printed, if it's detected (courtesy of code from Uwe Ligges).
   
   o  Updated Commander.Rd.
   
   o  Small changes.
   
Version 1.5-1

   o  Fixes to links in docs (pointed out by Brian Ripley).

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New version in the 1.5-x series will be released as updated translations
become available and if bugs surface. Of course, bug reports and suggestions
are appreciated.

Regards,
 John
   

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John Fox
Department of Sociology
Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox