one of the three parameters exceeds the maximal integer.

now warns when no alternatives are provided.

on all platforms -- as this was the default on Windows,

versions of OS X (for the latter, thanks to a suggestion of Kyaw

would sometimes give misleading labels on the breaks, as they

were set to the day before the start of the period being

displayed.  The display format has been changed, and the shift of the

now uses a new version of the logo (donated to the R

Foundation by RStudio).  It is defined in

will resize without unnecessary degradation when displayed on

HTML pages---there is also a vector PDF version.  Thanks to

Dirk Eddelbuettel for producing the corresponding X11 icon.

the size of points separately from the size of plot labels.

Thanks to Michael Friendly and Milan Bouchet-Valat for ideas

the connection as text-oriented (so e.g.

works).  It is still always opened in binary mode.

character vector (after substituting symbols for strings). See

attached.  Functions from default packages other than

which are used in the package code but not imported are reported

as undefined globals, with a suggested addition to the

external (usually system) versions are required (see the

The unexported and undocumented Windows-only devices

have been removed.  (These devices should be used as

and will be removed in due course.  The choice between methods

with an S4 value into a list currently embeds the

S4 object into its own list such that the end result is roughly

the future, the S4 value will be coerced to a list with

which is both more flexible and efficient.

) has been updated to version 2.4.6 (from 2.2.6a).

version 7.28.0 or later with support for the

protocol is required for installation (except on

BSD networking is now required (except on Windows) and so

and JPEG where this is available.  This should work better with

multiple installs and with those using static libraries.

The minimum supported version of OS X is 10.6 (

): even that has been unsupported by Apple since 2012.

The minimum preferred version of PCRE has since