long vectors (slowly except for radix sorting).

can do uniform sampling from a long vector.

entry points, which is more efficient as the address is provided

by the loader once only when the package is loaded.

Since these entry points are always accessed by the

points they do not need to be in the load table which can be

substantially smaller and hence searched faster.  This does mean

may no longer work -- but they were never

makes fewer copies if the input has dimnames.

Most of the linear algebra functions make fewer copies when

the input(s) are not double (e.g., integer or logical).

argument will only look in the first DLL

searching all loaded DLLs.  A few packages needed

operator is now implemented as a primitive,

which should reduce some copying of objects when used.  Note that

the operator object must now be in package

The transitional support for installing packages without

package will be ignored (with an installation warning for now).

Package vignettes can now be processed by other engines

tangled source code for vignettes is now

produced at install time, but eventually this will be dropped.

the repository without any Mac subtype (which used to be

for the CRAN binary distribution for OS X as from

the compiler in use can be changed by setting just these (and if

This is convenient for those working with binary distributions of

in compiled code, and has been able to find the

The location of the build and check environment files can

now be specified by the environment variables

to control possibly reducing the size of the PDF file it creates

defined within reference classes, including of

to prepare the tarball.  This is more likely to

packages which re-define base functions such as

There is now a test that a JNI program can be compiled (like

did) and only working settings are used.

It makes use of custom settings from configuration recorded in

(re)build vignettes and never omitted them.

removed, including the oft misused non-API header

other non-vector object is now an error.

Several non-API entry points have been transferred to