[R] R 3.2.4-revised is released

[Patrick Connolly]

My CRAN mirror still says this:

  The latest release (Thursday 2016-03-10, Very Secure Dishes)
  R-3.2.4.tar.gz, read what's new in the latest version.

Should that not be updated?  Anyone who has not seen that post won't
know to look further.


On Wed, 16-Mar-2016 at 08:39PM +0000, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

|> The 3.2.4 release had two annoyances which we would rather not have
|> in an "ultra-stable" release, designed to hang around for the
|> duration of the 3.3 series. One was a relatively minor Makefile
|> issue affecting system using R's bundled lzma library. The other,
|> rather more serious, affected printing and formatting of POSIXlt
|> objects, which would unpredictably get the Daylight Savings Time
|> wrong.


|> Accordingly a revised version has been created.
|> 
|> You can get the source code from
|> 
|> http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.2.4-revised.tar.gz
|> 
|> or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you.
|> 
|> Maintainers of binary versions are requested to rebuild their binaries using the revised sources.
|> 
|> 
|> For the R Core Team,
|> 
|> Peter Dalgaard
|> 
|> New md5 sums are
|> 
|> MD5 (NEWS) = b0b43ac87a5b5858098da065966551af
|> MD5 (R-3/R-3.2.4-revised.tar.gz) = 552b0c8088bab08ca4188797b919a58f
|> 
|> The relevant NEWS file entry is
|> 
|>   BUG FIXES:
|> 
|>     • format.POSIXlt() behaved wrongly, e.g.,
|>       format(as.POSIXlt(paste0(1940:2000,"-01-01"), tz="CET"),
|>       usetz=TRUE) ended in two "CEST" time formats.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
|> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
|> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
|> Phone: (+45)38153501
|> Office: A 4.23
|> Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
|> 
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