format, using the (widely supported) GNU

extension.  It can also store long link names, but these are much

less widely supported.  There is support for larger files, up to

Local reference classes have been added to package

.  These are a technique for avoiding unneeded

copying of large components of objects while retaining standard

if false (not the default) discards the times in the tarball.

This is useful if they are incorrect (some tarballs submitted to

have times in a local time zone or many years in the

past even though the standard required them to be in UTC).

an attempt is made to replay plots created in a different build of

Palette changes get recorded on the display list, so

replaying plots (including when resizing screen devices and using

) will work better when the palette is changed

information at the statement level, not just the function level.

in its output file on Windows, to be consistent with the quoting

The HTML help page for a package now displays non-vignette

documentation files in a more accessible format.

now detects tables with 0-extents and prints the results as, e.g.,

Deparsing involving calls to anonymous functions has been

made closer to reversible by the addition of extra parentheses.

namespaces preferentially in the same way as attached packages

In Windows, the Change Directory dialog now defaults to

the current working directory, rather than to the last directory

for which installation can proceed solely based on packages which

for conveniently checking source packages along with

R's completion mechanism has been improved to handle help

requests (starting with a question mark).  In particular, help

prefixes are now supported, as well as quoted help topics.  To

support this, completion inside quotes are now handled by R by

The memory manager now allows the strategy used to balance

garbage collection and memory growth to be controlled by setting

says.)  The use of environment variables

to control the initial (= minimum) garbage

collection trigger for number of cons cels and size of heap has