return value was described wrongly (it is always a list and

reference classes and gives a suitably specialized skeleton of

invocation as well as for initially specified methods.

if the URL was not able to be opened.  (

Assignment of an environment to functions or as an attribute

to other objects now works for S4 subclasses of

generated an infinite recursion from the

method.  The method has been replaced by internal code.

methods when there is no explicit superclass

dropped attributes such as names and dimensions from a

call and so was vulnerable to garbage collection.

comments at the start and end of code chunks.  It could also

could infinite-loop when compiled with high optimization on a

simplified language-like results, as, e.g., in

mapply(1:2, c(3,7), FUN = function(i,j) call(':',i,j))

rounded fractional dates towards zero: it

Reference S4 class creation could generate ambiguous

inheritance patterns under very special circumstances.

Long titles for help pages were truncated in package indices

Additional utilities now work correctly with S4 subclasses of

The initialization of objects from S4 subclasses of

erroneous) example or test output which is invalid in the current

with column names and pivoting now also pivots

gave incorrect results when all inputs were of length 1.

directives, rather than signalling an error.  For 2.12.x a warning

will be issued, but this will be correctly reported as an error

in later releases. (Reported by Charles Berry.)

Rendering raster images in PDF output was resetting the

Rendering of raster images on cairo X11 device was wrong,

particularly when a small image was being scaled up using

With cairo < 1.6, will be better than before, though still a

little clunky.  With cairo >= 1.6, should be sweet as.

be converted to other types, and (in Windows) copying from the

ASCII rather than Latin-1: a package with a non-ASCII

character vectors where all elements are in the global

cache and have unmarked encoding (ASCII).  Thanks to Matthew

Dowle for suggesting improvements to the way the hash code is