[R] R 4.0.2 is released

[Spencer Graves]

Thank you and all the core R team.  Spencer Graves


On 2020-06-22 03:21, Peter Dalgaard via R-help wrote:
> The build system rolled up R-4.0.2.tar.gz (codename "Taking Off Again") this morning.
>
> The list below details the changes in this release.
>
> You can get the source code from
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.0.2.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:
>
> MD5 (AUTHORS) = b9c44f9f78cab3184ad9898bebc854b4
> MD5 (COPYING) = eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a
> MD5 (COPYING.LIB) = a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343
> MD5 (FAQ) = 4afa171cd982aaa60f0ba92e2e7bc5d6
> MD5 (INSTALL) = 7893f754308ca31f1ccf62055090ad7b
> MD5 (NEWS) = 566a6bb3642e28e6bf01cf98db31137c
> MD5 (NEWS.0) = bfcd7c147251b5474d96848c6f57e5a8
> MD5 (NEWS.1) = eb78c4d053ec9c32b815cf0c2ebea801
> MD5 (NEWS.2) = 496062c138e2def06cebccddfb814ac6
> MD5 (NEWS.3) = 012e7f4a80cc8ec947bf3f0ff6117ec8
> MD5 (R-latest.tar.gz) = 1eac7293d5fe313a56ddabfda02b437e
> MD5 (README) = f468f281c919665e276a1b691decbbe6
> MD5 (RESOURCES) = 529223fd3ffef95731d0a87353108435
> MD5 (THANKS) = 251d20510bfc3cc93b82c5a99f7efcc6
> MD5 (VERSION-INFO.dcf) = 62496d3a0fd8cc2ed644ea518c052371
> MD5 (R-4/R-4.0.2.tar.gz) = 1eac7293d5fe313a56ddabfda02b437e
>
> 2cde824a7b18958e5f06b391c801c8288be0f84fa8934b7ddefef23c67e60c09  AUTHORS
> e6d6a009505e345fe949e1310334fcb0747f28dae2856759de102ab66b722cb4  COPYING
> 6095e9ffa777dd22839f7801aa845b31c9ed07f3d6bf8a26dc5d2dec8ccc0ef3  COPYING.LIB
> eddf87b12197c7b3b19cbc9b11c1beab95b14e3dcd715bf37d2f6a8b2a72c2a1  FAQ
> f87461be6cbaecc4dce44ac58e5bd52364b0491ccdadaf846cb9b452e9550f31  INSTALL
> ec05bba338358410fae6b34fed061605989ab3601aba1b3fcb45a610d5dd2eb9  NEWS
> 4e21b62f515b749f80997063fceab626d7258c7d650e81a662ba8e0640f12f62  NEWS.0
> 12b30c724117b1b2b11484673906a6dcd48a361f69fc420b36194f9218692d01  NEWS.1
> e80de410c77f05ff2012fa70051b89119845f734a7fa5c55857e61e4ed7d5f6e  NEWS.2
> 7201d139947afa52b5e09d26dc01445edf444506264355b2185122bc1ed3dce0  NEWS.3
> d3bceab364da0876625e4097808b42512395fdf41292f4915ab1fd257c1bbe75  R-latest.tar.gz
> 2fdd3e90f23f32692d4b3a0c0452f2c219a10882033d1774f8cadf25886c3ddc  README
> 408737572ecc6e1135fdb2cf7a9dbb1a6cb27967c757f1771b8c39d1fd2f1ab9  RESOURCES
> c9c7cb32308b4e560a22c858819ade9de524a602abd4e92d1c328c89f8037d73  THANKS
> 10cc5f566a4a5ce49147e7dcfbe9180dba09ccb9efb17298b067309eb799e92e  VERSION-INFO.dcf
> d3bceab364da0876625e4097808b42512395fdf41292f4915ab1fd257c1bbe75  R-4/R-4.0.2.tar.gz
>
> This is the relevant part of the NEWS file
>
> CHANGES IN R 4.0.2:
>
>    UTILITIES:
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>      * R CMD check skips vignette re-building (with a warning) if the
>        VignetteBuilder package(s) are not available.
>
>    BUG FIXES:
>
>      * Paths with non-ASCII characters caused problems for package
>        loading on Windows PR#17833.
>
>      * Using tcltk widgets no longer crashes R on Windows.
>
>      * source(*, echo=TRUE) no longer fails in some cases with empty
>        lines; reported by Bill Dunlap in PR#17769.
>
>      * on.exit() now correctly matches named arguments, thanks to
>        PR#17815 (including patch) by Brodie Gaslam.
>
>      * regexpr(*, perl=TRUE) no longer returns incorrect positions into
>        text containing characters outside of the Unicode Basic
>        Multilingual Plane on Windows.
>