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| 1 | +From pd@me@ @end|ng |rom cb@@dk Mon Feb 23 15:04:01 2026 |
| 2 | +From: pd@me@ @end|ng |rom cb@@dk (Peter Dalgaard) |
| 3 | +Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:04:01 +0000 |
| 4 | +Subject: [Rd] R 4.5.3 scheduled for March 11 |
| 5 | +Message-ID: <922F989B-5BFE-4A04-BC94-AE8E94EDAE43@cbs.dk> |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +Full schedule is available on developer.r-project.org <http://developer.r-project.org/> (...soon; the impatient might try: https://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/index.html). |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +-- |
| 10 | +Peter Dalgaard, Professor, |
| 11 | +Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School |
| 12 | +Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark |
| 13 | +Phone: (+45)38153501 |
| 14 | +Office: A 4.23 |
| 15 | +Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +______________________________________________ |
| 18 | +R-devel at r-project.org mailing list |
| 19 | +https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +From pd@|gd @end|ng |rom gm@||@com Wed Mar 11 10:43:18 2026 |
| 23 | +From: pd@|gd @end|ng |rom gm@||@com (Peter Dalgaard) |
| 24 | +Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:43:18 +0100 |
| 25 | +Subject: R 4.5.3 is released |
| 26 | +Message-ID: <D6FF5994-D8AE-4A24-9F10-37CDECC2615C@gmail.com> |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +The build system rolled up R-4.5.3.tar.gz and .xz (codename ?Reassured Reassurer") this morning. |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +This is a patch release with a handful of minor changes and fixups, intended to be the wrap-up release for R-4.5.x. |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +The list below details the changes in this release. |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +You can get the source code from |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.5.3.tar.gz |
| 37 | +https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.5.3.tar.xz |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you. |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +Binaries for various platforms will appear in due course. |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +For the R Core Team, |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +Peter Dalgaard |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +These are the checksums (md5 and SHA-256) for the freshly created files, in case you wish |
| 50 | +to check that they are uncorrupted: |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +MD5 (AUTHORS) = 07651d43d483521300ca8d68fc797522 |
| 53 | +MD5 (build-dist.log) = 890a67356958e736e4886e433182039e |
| 54 | +MD5 (COPYING) = eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a |
| 55 | +MD5 (COPYING.LIB) = a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343 |
| 56 | +MD5 (FAQ) = 1b03721cdb2f3493d5a0975ad45a66be |
| 57 | +MD5 (INSTALL) = 7893f754308ca31f1ccf62055090ad7b |
| 58 | +MD5 (NEWS) = abf573c3b45df69a7e0b99939c2c362d |
| 59 | +MD5 (NEWS.0) = bfcd7c147251b5474d96848c6f57e5a8 |
| 60 | +MD5 (NEWS.1) = f8466e418dec6b958b4ce484a13f9a9d |
| 61 | +MD5 (NEWS.2) = 05e4a57b645e651ba13019c3cf5c495f |
| 62 | +MD5 (NEWS.3) = 082abfc2fdc36912075e78b92fb2941e |
| 63 | +MD5 (R-latest.tar.gz) = cff9da5529a0caff9ca7c718ca6c7f5a |
| 64 | +MD5 (R-latest.tar.xz) = 956bd2386728f62e4bda67e5b24c2c04 |
| 65 | +MD5 (README) = e8e5ee38544d34409177cd479025fe66 |
| 66 | +MD5 (RESOURCES) = 94ab0226460af048446af1041a23771b |
| 67 | +MD5 (THANKS) = 61d146aa6a2cf5999295b2fb340991c1 |
| 68 | +MD5 (VERSION-INFO.dcf) = 1daa1c318f1dbbf83ede3bf15879c6da |
| 69 | +MD5 (R-4/R-4.5.3.tar.gz) = cff9da5529a0caff9ca7c718ca6c7f5a |
| 70 | +MD5 (R-4/R-4.5.3.tar.xz) = 956bd2386728f62e4bda67e5b24c2c04 |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +b87c4dfcb4300f8af91009e2473f2ee5747e9e199df353c90146cba2aee8f444 AUTHORS |
| 73 | +7ec7270a97c773e4bc4cb81b7e92220abe00f50afb7da2b820583cd60b695e5f build-dist.log |
| 74 | +e6d6a009505e345fe949e1310334fcb0747f28dae2856759de102ab66b722cb4 COPYING |
| 75 | +6095e9ffa777dd22839f7801aa845b31c9ed07f3d6bf8a26dc5d2dec8ccc0ef3 COPYING.LIB |
| 76 | +d41a5f9047903d8d6a8388b69b004df060614e2ed0812535a322244733ad8828 FAQ |
| 77 | +f87461be6cbaecc4dce44ac58e5bd52364b0491ccdadaf846cb9b452e9550f31 INSTALL |
| 78 | +e8c28d0d40bed1262a0f3ecc4ee652d68d18136d438240c555b2799a185f3666 NEWS |
| 79 | +4e21b62f515b749f80997063fceab626d7258c7d650e81a662ba8e0640f12f62 NEWS.0 |
| 80 | +602f3a40ef759c7b2a6c485a33dc674af34249644ac5fb53b21283d4e12e808d NEWS.1 |
| 81 | +7babb6d82a4479b2c3803f7dbfaab63125b0f0d1b6bb40b1389d3af65eaf83aa NEWS.2 |
| 82 | +eb473efd365822e7ae64eb0f86028ea019815fdd273fe7daa9c6fe5e28fd2737 NEWS.3 |
| 83 | +aa5c1ed4293c7271ac513d654670356ac0e8a6ad5e42be014365d11150b5b8f2 R-latest.tar.gz |
| 84 | +c9a6555bb94c104b9c02905360c57de0dcac5dd31923dc5bb6ef3af7744615f1 R-latest.tar.xz |
| 85 | +f5aa875c23185cbfc3a50739d7295b0caba2cf0e38ba082850be338cc9541154 README |
| 86 | +fa76f82f7e3664afa4394623afedbc696a2ee90925be65ca57fc9e4b399f3ed6 RESOURCES |
| 87 | +1d5064c86b6813865a033763f43212064c0a67ef05f5af13b13c4feb08264a33 THANKS |
| 88 | +169369c78c7ed3d4c05094a7d446520385c68b66ed762287412f9d93dad44517 VERSION-INFO.dcf |
| 89 | +aa5c1ed4293c7271ac513d654670356ac0e8a6ad5e42be014365d11150b5b8f2 R-4/R-4.5.3.tar.gz |
| 90 | +c9a6555bb94c104b9c02905360c57de0dcac5dd31923dc5bb6ef3af7744615f1 R-4/R-4.5.3.tar.xz |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | +This is the relevant part of the NEWS file |
| 93 | + |
| 94 | +CHANGES IN R 4.5.3: |
| 95 | + |
| 96 | + UTILITIES: |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | + ? tools/fetch-recommended can be used instead of |
| 99 | + tools/rsync-recommended to fetch recommended packages into R |
| 100 | + sources using curl on systems without rsync or behind firewalls. |
| 101 | + |
| 102 | + PACKAGE INSTALLATION: |
| 103 | + |
| 104 | + ? C++ standard specifications (CXX_STD = in src/Makevars* and in |
| 105 | + the SystemRequirements field of the DESCRIPTION file) are now |
| 106 | + checked more thoroughly. Invalid values are still ignored but |
| 107 | + now give a warning, as do contradictory specifications. |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | + ? (Preliminary) support for C++26 has been extended to Windows. |
| 110 | + |
| 111 | + ? A non-zero exit status from cleanup, cleanup.win or cleanup.ucrt, |
| 112 | + if requested via options --clean or --preclean, is now reported |
| 113 | + with a warning. |
| 114 | + |
| 115 | + BUG FIXES: |
| 116 | + |
| 117 | + ? all.equal(obj, simple, check.class=FALSE) now is true, also when |
| 118 | + simple is a bare atomic vector and obj has a simple class, fixing |
| 119 | + the first part of PR#18971 thanks to Jan Gorecki. |
| 120 | + |
| 121 | + ? str(x, give.attr=FALSE) no longer shows attributes when x is a |
| 122 | + zero length "Date" or "POSIXt" object. |
| 123 | + |
| 124 | + ? Tweaks to binning for bw.SJ() and bw.ucv() in the very rare case |
| 125 | + of data which have an extremely small range compared to their |
| 126 | + absolute values, e.g., x <- 6e9 + 6:9. |
| 127 | + |
| 128 | + ? Formatting book-type bibentry objects now converts LaTeX accents |
| 129 | + also in the publisher and series fields. |
| 130 | + |
| 131 | + ? model.frame(~1, list(), na.action=na.pass) and similar |
| 132 | + ?border-line? uses no longer produce invalid data frames, fixing |
| 133 | + PR#18977, reported with patch by Mikael Jagan. |
| 134 | + |
| 135 | + ? length(<POSIXlt>) <- v is more careful about balancing, notably |
| 136 | + when v is not integer, thanks to Suharto Anggono's remarks on the |
| 137 | + mailing list R-devel. |
| 138 | + |
| 139 | + ? approx(<x_with_ties>, <y_with_NA>, na.rm = FALSE) now should |
| 140 | + always call the ties() function, fixing PR#17604 reported by Bill |
| 141 | + Dunlap. |
| 142 | + |
| 143 | + ? besselJ(1, 1e-15) and similar now give correct results, thanks to |
| 144 | + Leo Mada and other ?R-help?ers. |
| 145 | + |
| 146 | + ? vignette(<pkg>::<topic>) is now a documented usage variant and |
| 147 | + confines vignette retrieval to the specified package. |
| 148 | + |
| 149 | + ? pretty(ch) again correctly works with ch a character vector of |
| 150 | + numbers. |
| 151 | + |
| 152 | + ? persp() labels the three axes correctly also when C level |
| 153 | + atan2pi() is available, fixing PR#19007 by Klaus Schliep. |
| 154 | + |
| 155 | + ? Large (tall) subscripts in plotmath expressions are now |
| 156 | + positioned correctly. They were being positioned too high. |
| 157 | + |
| 158 | + ? Ops group (Arith, Compare,..) methods for matrix-"ts" now do |
| 159 | + return (zero length) matrices even when the two series do not |
| 160 | + overlap, a very partial fix of PR#18972 which is to be fully |
| 161 | + addressed later. |
| 162 | + |
| 163 | + |
| 164 | +-- |
| 165 | +Peter Dalgaard, Professor, |
| 166 | +Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School |
| 167 | +Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark |
| 168 | +Phone: (+45)38153501 |
| 169 | +Office: A 4.23 |
| 170 | +Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com |
| 171 | + |
| 172 | + |
| 173 | +From Kurt@Horn|k @end|ng |rom wu@@c@@t Thu Mar 12 07:43:10 2026 |
| 174 | +From: Kurt@Horn|k @end|ng |rom wu@@c@@t (Kurt Hornik) |
| 175 | +Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:43:10 +0100 |
| 176 | +Subject: Heather Turner joins the R core team |
| 177 | +Message-ID: <27058.24702.748348.333931@hornik.net> |
| 178 | + |
| 179 | +We are very happy to announce that |
| 180 | + |
| 181 | + Heather Turner (<https://heatherturner.net>, |
| 182 | + <https://github.com/hturner>, |
| 183 | + <https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathrturnr/>, ..) |
| 184 | + |
| 185 | +has joined the R core team on March 10. She has been an active |
| 186 | +contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and greatly improved cooperation |
| 187 | +between R Core and the R community in more ways. |
| 188 | + |
| 189 | +Co-initiator of the R contributors (<https://contributor.r-project.org>) |
| 190 | +and co-founder of R-Ladies Global (<https://rladies.org/>) in 2016, |
| 191 | +she's additionally been a _board_ member of the R Foundation, member of |
| 192 | +the RF Conference comittee, and crucially been involved in many useR! |
| 193 | +conferences. |
| 194 | + |
| 195 | +The R Core team |
| 196 | + |
| 197 | + |
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