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+	This file covers NEWS up to the release of R-1.0.0.
+	See 'NEWS.1' for subsequent changes.
+
+
+	**************************************************
+	*						 *
+	*	       0.99 SERIES NEWS			 *
+	*						 *
+	**************************************************
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.99.0
+
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	The ``Introduction to R'' manual, in doc/manual.
+	The ``Writing R Extensions'' manual is much enhanced for
+	this release.
+
+    o	The format for save/load has been changed. Workspaces and
+	objects saved in earlier versions can be loaded into this
+	version, but not conversely. Use save() or save.image() with
+	argument oldstyle=TRUE to save in the old format if you need to.
+
+    o	The header files for C code have been reorganised. The
+	preferred header file for user code is now "R.h", and
+	ancillary files such as Arith.h now need to be referred to
+	as "R_ext/Arith.h". The `Writing R Extensions' manual now
+	contains the beginnings of a description of the public API and
+	how to use it.
+
+    o	Many of the exported symbols have been remapped or hidden. This
+	means that code using Rdefines.h or Rinternals.h or Mathlib.h
+	will need to be re-compiled, and code using Applic.h may do
+	so.
+
+	Many packages will need to be re-installed for use with this
+	release.
+
+    o	The random number generation interface has changed, although
+	saved .Random.seed's will work unchanged. The default
+	generator is now Marsaglia's multicarry, and the Mersenne
+	Twister GFSR and Knuth's Fibonacci subtraction are also
+	available.  The type of normal generation can be selected by
+	RNGkind() (and is encoded in .Random.seed).
+
+	The new function set.seed() which uses a single integer to set
+	the random number seeds is now the recommended way to do so.
+
+	It is now possible for a user to plug-in a new RNG written
+	in C: consult ?Random and ?Random-user for the details.
+
+    o	All the DPQ {probability density quantile} functions have new
+	arguments, "lower_tail = TRUE" and "log{_p} = FALSE".  This allows
+	more precise results when values would be close to 0 or 1.
+
+    o	R CMD Rd2dvi has new options --pdf, --title and --output.
+
+    o	New fields Date, URL and Title in the DESCRIPTION file of
+	packages. The Title field replaces the separate TITLE file of
+	packages, which is no longer necessary.
+
+    o	residuals.lm() has a "type" argument, as S does.
+
+    o	The underlying code for nlm has been translated from Fortran
+	to C and made re-entrant (changes contributed by Saikat DebRoy).
+
+    o	optimize() can now be used recursively.
+
+    o	New suite of optimization methods optim(), covering
+	Nelder-Mead, BFGS quasi-Newton and conjugate-gradients methods
+	for unconstrained minimization and maximization with and
+	without derivatives.
+
+	optim() also allows box constraints (interval bounds on
+	individual variables) in its limited-memory BFGS option.
+
+    o	R now compiles in the GNU version of regex, so regular
+	expressions (grep, sub, gsub, regexpr, "pattern" in ls) are
+	always available. The class of regular expressions supported
+	is now slightly wider on some Unix platforms.
+
+    o	package ctest (for classical tests) is now part of the base
+	distribution, and also contains chisq.test, prop.test and
+	t.test which previously were in package base. These three
+	functions are auto-loaded from ctest.
+
+    o	New utility `R CMD build' for building add-on packages along
+	with some useful testing and cleaning up.
+
+    o	Conversion of .Rd help files to text format is done in Perl,
+	and no longer requires nroff.  This makes the conversion 8-bit
+	clean and more accurate.
+
+    o	Building help for a package now removes help files that no
+	longer exist in the source.
+
+    o	strsplit() now uses split regexps, and no longer insists on
+	splitting into non-empty tokens.
+
+    o	Long-named options with arguments such as `--vsize' now use the
+	`--name=VALUE' form; the old `--name VALUE' is deprecated.
+	The old-style command line options `-v' and `-n' are now defunct.
+
+    o	par("cxy") { == par("cin")/par("pin") in user coordinates}
+	for S compatibility.
+
+    o	If R_PAPERSIZE is not specified otherwise, configure now tries
+	to compute it by calling paperconf.
+
+    o	The deprecated alternative RPROFILE is no longer accepted: use
+	R_PROFILE instead.
+
+    o	Added setequal() for set equality.
+
+    o	First argument renamed to "package" for library(), require(),
+	provide().
+
+    o	model.frame() now accepts data= arguments that can be coerced to
+	data frames.
+
+    o	Help files can now contain \describe groups.
+
+    o	Hyperlinks in help files can now use LaTeX special characters.
+
+    o	rstandard() now also works for glm objects.
+
+    o	glm drops 0-weight observations when fitting so that the
+	output is compatible with lm.influence() and plot.lm().
+
+    o	New function ftable() for creating and manipulating flat
+	contingency tables.
+
+    o	New function cutree() for cutting hclust trees in package
+	mva.  New functions rect.hclust() and identify.hclust().
+
+    o	Under Unix, the default editor is obtained from the environment
+	variables EDITOR or VISUAL if either is set.
+
+    o	New command line option `--gui' to specify the graphical user
+	interface under Unix.  Currently, possible values are `X11' (the
+	(default) and `GNOME', provided that GNOME support is available.
+	Command line options `-g' and `--gnome' are defunct.
+
+    o	power.t.test() and power.prop.test() functions added for power and
+	sample size calculations.
+
+    o	edit() is now generic and a new edit.data.frame() function
+	calls up the spreadsheet data editor. This is still rather
+	rudimentary, since the data editor really only knows about
+	numeric and character vectors.
+
+    o	Modifications to the data editor so that one can use ESC to
+	quit a partial cell entry and entering an empty cell causes
+	the element to be set to NA.
+
+    o	prop.table() and margin.table() functions (these are *really* trivial).
+
+    o	R INSTALL checks the Depends field of DESCRIPTION if the
+	currently running version of R meets an R
+	dependency. old.packages() reports only packages conforming
+	to the current version of R. New function
+	package.dependencies() for parsing and checking dependencies.
+
+    o	options("expressions") now does something, and the evaluation
+	depth is checked on all platforms (not just Macintosh). This
+	will catch infinite recursions gracefully.
+
+    o	The default number of cons cells (`nsize') is now 350k (it
+	was 250k).  This reflects the added base code and packages,
+	and increases memory usage by about 2Mb (on a 32-bit machine).
+
+    o	Some simple multiple comparison procedures: p.adjust() for
+	generic adjustment of a set of p values by variants of the
+	Bonferroni method; pairwise.t.test, pairwise.wilcox.test,
+	pairwise.prop.test for pairwise comparisons of grouped data
+	and proportions.
+
+    o	Error / warning calls with a long description of the call are
+	split into two lines. (This helps avoid scrolling in the
+	Windows GUI.)
+
+    o	lapply() is now internal and substantially faster (7% overall
+	speed-up on the tests for the base package).
+
+    o	apply() no longer names the output dimensions unless FUN returns
+	a result with names, and the same names for every result.
+
+    o	contour() can (at last) label contours by level.
+
+    o	persp() labels its axes.
+
+    o	scan() and read.table() now have a dec= argument to set the
+	decimal point character. If sep= is set, quoting of strings is
+	now possible and follows the conventions for comma-separated
+	files. This should make it easier to read the "continental
+	CSV" format (fields separated by semicolon and using comma as
+	decimal point).	 The set of quoting characters has also been
+	made optional. Variants of read.table(), read.csv() and
+	read.csv2() have been defined
+
+    o	HDF5 support is gone from the R distribution, and provided by an
+	add-on package available from CRAN.
+
+    o	New function getOption() for retrieving the value of a single
+	option.
+
+    o	read.table.url() and related functions now use download.file,
+	which has an extra "socket" method for direct HTTP socket
+	connection. download.file has new option ``quiet''.
+
+    o	pairs.default() has an oma argument to allow users to override
+	the internal setting of that graphics parameter.
+
+    o	princomp() in package mva allows the user to specify the
+	covariance matrix (and hence use, e.g. cov.mve).
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	svd(matrix(2,1,0)),
+	arma0f(NULL), cancor(F,F) and prcomp(F[F]) no longer segfault.
+
+    o	loess.smooth(F[F],F[F]) and supsmu(F[F],F[F]) no longer segfault.
+
+    o	save(1, file = ""[F])  no longer segfaults.
+
+    o	stop(list()) and warning(list()) no longer segfault.
+
+    o	system(""[F]) and save(1, file = ""[F])	 no longer segfault.
+
+    o	Overflow of the pointer protection stack is handled correctly
+
+    o	predict.glm(, type="link", se.fit=T) works
+
+    o	str() now works with Surv(.) objects from library(survival5).
+
+    o	all.equal(-Inf, -1e5) now gives "Mean absolute difference: Inf"
+	instead of "Mean relative  difference: NaN".
+
+    o	strsplit fix broke copy.url.
+
+    o	0 ^ -1 == Inf  and  min(NA, NaN) is now always NA
+
+    o	R CMD xxx sets $R_HOME/bin to be first in PATH
+
+    o	Added more warnings to update.packages & friends. New function
+	old.packages for better control of update.packages.
+
+    o	Adding matrices to data frames now happens column by column as
+	documented, so character or logical matrices generate factor
+	columns.
+
+    o	Formulae containing interactions with the response were
+	handled incorrectly by model.matrix, giving wrong answers or crashes.
+
+    o	anova(lm(.)) with 0 weights now works.
+
+    o	plot.lm(), dffits(), covratio() now do the right thing for weighted
+	lm regression.
+
+    o	formatC(as.integer(c(1,0,NA))) now works. PR#394, thanks to Jens O.-A.
+
+    o	format.char(.) is much faster for long vector argument [Jens O.-A.]
+
+    o	\enumerate now enumerates in text conversion of .Rd files.
+
+    o	glm() no longer fails with names<- errors in cases where
+	observations with fits on the mu.eta boundary have been dropped.
+
+    o	Deviance residuals could be NaN instead of 0 by rounding error.
+
+    o	shapiro.test(x) now gives better error messages (eg. x=rep(1,5))
+	and doesn't print ANYTHING anymore (in some cases).
+
+    o	mode(as.formula(paste("~", paste(1:50, collapse="+")))[2]) now works.
+
+    o	glm() now handles cases with numerically 0 or 1 fitted values in
+	binomial and numerically 0 in poisson correctly. (Previously
+	these observations were dropped even though the variances were
+	also numerically 0.)
+
+    o	(-4 + 0i) ^ (1/2)  now gives 2i.
+
+    o	system.time() now does sensible things in the non-HAVE_TIMES
+	case, and that and proc.time() have better documentation.
+
+    o	A couple of bugs in the data editor spreadsheet have been
+	eliminated.
+
+    o	Elapsed time in proc.time() is no longer rounded to whole
+	seconds under Unix.
+
+    o	Assigning character vectors to subsets of data frames now
+	works correctly (it used to assign the numeric codes of factors).
+
+    o	Extensive enhancements and corrections to the help pages.
+
+    o	The possibility of buffer overruns during printing has been
+	much reduced, and eliminated on systems with vsnprintf.
+
+
+	**************************************************
+	*						 *
+	*	       0.90 SERIES NEWS			 *
+	*						 *
+	**************************************************
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.90.1
+
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	rect(.) has `lwd' argument.
+
+    o	legend() has a `adj' argument and has been streamlined (and fixed up).
+
+    o	`unname' convenience function [experimental data.frame behavior].
+
+    o	`examples' sections have been added to the documentation
+	for most of the data sets in the base library.
+
+    o	update.packages & friends have new argument contriburl for
+	incomplete CRAN mirrors. Package bundles such as VR can be
+	directly installed both from the shell and from inside R.
+
+    o	RLIBS is no longer accepted as well as R_LIBS (which has been
+	the documented form since 0.65.0).
+
+    o	demo(nlm) has examples of using analytical gradients and
+	Hessians.
+
+    o	.Platform$OS.type is standardized to be `unix', `mac' or `windows'
+
+    o	setting cex in matplot(matrix(1:25,5), cex=1:5) now works
+
+    o	ar.ols() has separate demean and intercept arguments, uses
+	internal scaling for greater accuracy.
+
+    o	xxxPR functions allow NCHAR=-1 for S compatibility.
+
+    o	`Rcomplex' is preferred to `complex' (a future reserved word
+	in C) for R complex objects passed to C.
+
+    o	new function dir.create() for platform-independence.
+
+    o	help.search() creates a database for faster searching later in
+	the R session.
+
+    o	density() allows for more kernels and has a new argument
+	`give.Rkern' to access the relevant kernel property.
+
+    o	multivariate methods for ar: "yule-walker" (now in C) and
+	"burg" (new) contributed by Martyn Plummer.
+
+    o	New data sets `HairEyeColor' (hair and eye color of statistics
+	students), `Titanic' (survival of passengers on the Titanic),
+	and `UCBAdmissions' (student admissions at UC Berkeley).
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	Many help pages have been revised and enhanced.
+
+    o	predict.glm() works again with type="link".
+
+    o	subscripting arrays and matrices no longer loses the names of
+	the dimnames vector.  Transpose also preserves the names.
+
+    o	examples in help files containing \testonly are no longer
+	(partially) duplicated.
+
+    o	is.numeric() of a factor is now FALSE
+
+    o	prevent a segfault in plotmath
+
+    o	f <- get("function"); f(,); f(F,F)  now "ok" (PR#361).
+
+    o	blank-line reject code in parse.dcf was wrong (Martyn Plummer)
+
+    o	made filled.contour independent of pointsize. Make plot key
+	wider so there's room for a title. Touchup example.
+
+    o	font size fixups for the X11 driver (mainly)
+
+    o	some.list[[NA]] is NULL, following S, rather than giving spurious
+	error messages
+
+    o	segfault when running out of heap
+
+    o	segfault in rbind of a vector without names fixed. cbind, too.
+
+    o	fixed symbol size problems with PostScript driver
+
+    o	unique() & duplicated() only work for atomic vectors;
+	unique(data.frame(""[F])) doesn't segfault anymore.
+
+    o	get("attr<-")(""[0],""[0]) doesn't segfault anymore.
+
+    o	blunder in do_memoryprofile, causing segfault on Alpha machines
+
+    o	erroneous error message in coerceToSymbol
+
+    o	partial workaround for workspace restore problems. This can
+	happen if an environment on the search path is assigned to a
+	variable which gets saved. The error "unresolved node during
+	restore" is turned into a warning, allowing the rest of the
+	workspace to be restored, but the variable contains an empty
+	environment on reload.
+
+    o	density(x) now works also when IQR(x) == 0.
+	density(x, window=...) now works [S compatibility].
+
+    o	prevent points from being plotted if pch, cex, or col are NA.
+	Does not apply to bg on pch 21--25 (where NA means
+	"transparent") because it would require fixes at the driver
+	level.
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.90.0
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	packages splines (for regression smoothing splines or
+	interpolating splines) and nls (nonlinear least squares) are
+	part of the base distribution.
+
+    o	New error handling using
+	options ( error = expression(..) ,  warning.expr = ... ).
+	REPLACING version 0.65.1's  options(error.halt = T/F)
+
+    o	collected warnings before an error are no longer lost but
+	are printed after the error message (unless the error makes
+	this impossible).
+
+    o	A couple of substantial graphics changes, esp. in the X11
+	driver. The scaling of symbols is now linear in cex=, rather
+	than being tied to the available font's size. The fonts on an
+	X11 device also scale linearly with cex= insofar as your X
+	server can do it. On systems with the scalable type 1
+	PostScript fonts installed, this looks particularly nice. Note
+	that the scaling is linear in the *diameter*, but quadratic in
+	area. The distance between lines of margin text in the X11
+	device is now proportional to the size given to
+	x11(pointsize).
+
+
+    o	abline(a,b) now (again) refers to transformed coordinates on
+	plots with log-axes, so that abline(lm(log10(y)~log10(x)))
+	(say) draws a best-fitting line on a log-log plot. The earlier
+	convention (to draw a curve representing a line in original
+	coordinates) is available using a new untf= argument.
+
+    o	barplot.default() has new `axisnames' (and `sub') arguments, easily
+	allowing suppression of bar labeling.
+
+    o	cbind() and rbind() now actually do what deparse.level=1 implies:
+	add column/row names based on the deparsed argument, provided it
+	is a simple symbol. The behaviour is still hardcoded, though.
+
+    o	gc() now reports the total sizes in Mb as well as numbers.
+
+    o	New function help.search() for searching the names, titles,
+	aliases, or keywords in the help system.
+
+    o	image() allows x and y to specify either the boundaries or the
+	midpoints of the cells. If the latter, the whole cells are
+	drawn, rather than the outer cells being half-sized as previously.
+
+    o	NULL extra arguments to model.frame() are now treated as missing
+	(instead of an error).
+
+    o	optimization with nlm() can use analytic gradients and Hessians
+	if they are supplied.
+
+    o	on.exit() allows add=TRUE.
+
+    o	function parse.dcf() for parsing files in debian control file format
+	(DESCRIPTION, CONTENTS, ...)
+
+    o	predict.{g}lm has a type="terms" option, and residual.glm has
+	type="partial" as a step towards plot.gam().
+
+    o	New arguments to q() and quit() allow the exit status to be set
+	and the execution of .Last() to be skipped.
+
+    o	New function regexpr(), similar to grep but returns the position
+	of the match in each string. (For S-PLUS compatibility.)
+
+    o	scan() now supports complex numbers.
+
+    o	New function sort.list, for S compatibility. (This has argument
+	partial, but always sorts completely.)
+
+    o	storage.mode<- can be used to set "single", and if setting
+	anything other than "single" it removes the "Csingle" attribute.
+
+    o	new function sunflowerplot().
+
+    o	New function undoc() for listing undocumented objects.
+
+
+    o	User's .Rprofile now executes in global environment
+
+    o	All HTML pages now use the new style sheet doc/html/R.css
+
+    o	html and text files have now a header line giving the name of
+	the help file and the package. The description section now
+	comes first.
+
+    o	All the standard packages have DESCRIPTION files with
+	"Priority: base", so installed.packages and
+	package.description will work with them.
+
+    o	The R-external manual which describes programming for the
+	.Call and .External interfaces is in the doc/manual directory.
+
+    o	New target `make pdf' in doc/manuals makes hyperlinked PDF
+	documentation. (This is experimental for this release. See
+	doc/manual/README for further details.)
+
+
+    o	S.h now contains (via Rdefines.h) a MESSAGE macro, and
+	Free NULLs the pointer, for compatibility with S3 (but not S4).
+
+    o	New subroutine REALPR callable from Fortran (like DBLEPR but
+	for real arguments): useful if as.single is in use.
+
+    o	The cex= argument to plot() etc. can be a vector, like pch=.
+
+    o	lty=0 now (again) makes lines invisible. Looks better for
+	barplot label axis.
+
+    o	zero.R tries to find the zero DLL in a system-independent way.
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	apply should now work for all un-dimnamed arrays (PR#318).
+
+    o	ar(..., demean=F) works more consistently across methods.
+
+    o	barplot() had lower limits set at -0.01, causing trouble with
+	small heights. Switch to relative scale. (Thanks to Matt Wiener)
+
+    o	density() should work better with NAs and infinite values. See
+	?density for the current definitions of how these are handled.
+
+    o	diag(x) now works (as pre 0.65.1) for 1-d arrays.
+
+    o	Stored-source was dropped by dump().
+
+    o	expand.grid returns a data frame even for one arg.
+
+    o	expand.grid(x) now also works for vector arguments x.
+
+    o	factor(list()) or factor(character(0)) *is* now a factor
+	with valid levels(.);
+	ordered does NOT allow an `ordered' argument anymore
+	and is now defined as trivial call to factor.
+
+    o	help page for gc gives correct size of cons cells (20 bytes
+	for 32-bit systems, 36 or more for 64-bit systems).
+
+    o	gcinfo reports correct percentages of heap even for vsize > 200M.
+
+    o	gl(6,3,12) and gl(6,3,2) now both work.
+
+    o	Empty lists now deparse correctly.
+
+    o	na.omit.ts and na.contiguous preserve classes.
+
+    o	plot.factor {plot(<factor>)} now obeys axes=FALSE and xaxt="n".
+
+    o	read.table(as.is = TRUE) would leave everything as character.
+	Now it correctly tries to convert to numeric.
+
+    o	require() now has the warn.conflicts argument of library().
+
+    o	Fix problems in scan(flush = TRUE).
+
+    o	scan() got confused by trailing whitespace.
+
+    o	split(x,f) now works even when f is a factor with unused levels
+	(PR#294).
+
+    o	mosaicplot() has a formula interface and
+	NULL instead of NA default args.
+
+    o	stars() has "NULL" instead of "NA" defaults.
+
+    o	str() is quite a bit nicer with factors.
+
+    o	ts.union, cbind.ts, arithmetic on ts objects now allow
+	non-integer frequencies.
+
+
+    o	Switch to <tt> in HTML pages since Linux Netscape mangles
+	Courier.
+
+    o	When documentation is "compiled" (build-help), you now get warnings
+	for multiple (conflicting) \alias{.} or \name{.}s.
+
+    o	making the reference manual with `make dvi' copes better with
+	isolatin1 characters (but not perfectly as these are not in
+	standard TeX fonts).
+
+    o	Rd.sty now uses standard LaTeX constructs like \bm for bold
+	math and \url for URLs.
+
+
+    o	Protect R_fopen against NULL filename in Unix.
+
+    o	Math text in outer margins didn't work.
+
+    o	Text clipping now works in the X11 device.
+
+    o	Pixel rows sometimes got doubled in rotated text on the X11 device.
+
+    o	par("yaxt") is now ok.
+
+    o	Problems with realloc on some systems in AllocBuffer.
+
+    o	Problem with formatReal on non-IEEE systems.
+
+    o	demos/dynload/Makefile used macros that gave incorrect build
+	on some non-GNU makes.
+
+    o	Windows version copes better with paths with spaces in.
+
+    o	R CMD check had a typo which made the final message fail.
+
+    o	R_EOF redefined as -1, was causing trouble with isxxxx contructions.
+
+
+
+	**************************************************
+	*						 *
+	*	       0.65 SERIES NEWS			 *
+	*						 *
+	**************************************************
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.65.1
+
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	.C, .Fortran. .Call and .External now have an argument PACKAGE
+	to specify the shared library to be used for the symbol. See
+	?Foreign. Package writers are encouraged to use this.
+
+    o	On startup (unless --no-environ), first .Renviron is looked for in
+	the current directory, and then in $HOME/ (= ~/ ).
+
+    o	New options(error.halt = FALSE) (default is TRUE) allows
+	continuation after an error in batch processing.
+
+    o	In graphics, lty has now 6 instead of 4 predefined line types.
+
+    o	as.hclust.twins() in package mva to convert (and plot)
+	objects from agnes() and daisy() of package cluster.
+
+    o	R INSTALL now can directly install pkg_version.tar.gz files
+	as obtained from CRAN. New function update.packages()
+	& friends for automatically downloading packages from CRAN and
+	install them on the fly (on Unix and Windows).
+
+    o	New function commandArgs() to record the command-line used.
+
+    o	New arguments `local' and `now' to dyn.load.
+
+    o	diag(x) now keeps names when appropriate and barfs when x is an array.
+
+    o	functions source.url, url.show, read.table.url, scan.url to read
+	from an http server instead of a file.
+
+    o	grid() gets useful defaults: grid lines drawn at tick marks.
+
+    o	set operations union(), intersect(), setdiff() and is.element().
+
+    o	New function stars() for star plots and segment diagrams of
+	multivariate data.
+
+    o	Version info now in the top-level file `VERSION'.
+
+    o	barplot has a "plot = TRUE" argument and now returns locations of
+	all bars even when "beside = TRUE".
+
+    o	hist has an "nclass" argument purely for S compatibility.
+
+    o	Character strings can now, with most compilers, be passed
+	on and from Fortran. See ?Foreign for details.
+
+    o	Functions as.single and single now have the effect with
+	.C and .Fortran of passing a numeric argument as float/REAL
+	rather than as double/DOUBLE PRECISION, by setting the
+	attribute "Csingle". See ?Foreign for details.
+
+    o	Comparison of strings uses the current locale on systems where
+	this is available, and so is always consistent with the ordering
+	used by sort().
+
+    o	sapply	has a new argument USE.NAMES=TRUE  and now returns a named
+	result when its input was a character.
+
+    o	plot.stepfun  has new arguments	 lty and lwd.
+
+    o	x labels in boxplot now handled differently, so that math
+	expressions are allowed.
+
+    o	postscript() argument `onefile' now does something, and there
+	is a new paper type `special' and new argument `pagecentre'.
+	See ?postscript for details.
+
+    o	Experimental function dev2bitmap() to copy to a bitmap graphics format.
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	centering in text() will be more accurate, particularly on devices
+	with full font metric information (postscript, x11, not windows).
+
+    o	arguments after --no-readline in the Unix version were ignored.
+
+    o	couldn't set attributes in hashed environments.
+
+    o	[<-.data.frame mishandled dfr[1] <- 1 (forgotten drop=FALSE)
+
+    o	sys.on.exit didn't work
+
+    o	sys.parent didn't quite work either for n >= 2.
+
+    o	par("mfg") was wrong, par(mfg=) switched to down columns. Now
+	par(mfrow/mfcol = c(nr, nc)) followed by par(mfg=c(i,j)) is
+	the preferred style.
+
+    o	plot( <aov.object> ) failed after 2nd plot, PR#279
+
+    o	Several patches for systems with long != int.
+
+    o	approx failed if inputs contained NAs.
+
+    o	weighted lm fits with 1 diml x failed if any weight was zero.
+
+    o	lm.influence failed when there were undetermined coefficients, PR#280.
+
+    o	problem with function()... inside saved functions because arg count
+	increased to accommodate stored source. (Incorrect number of
+	arguments to "lambda")
+
+    o	improvements to generation of HTML help files: should work
+	better on viewers other than Netscape.
+
+    o	stl in package ts could conflict with package leaps: the Fortran
+	symbols have been changed.
+
+    o	help page for factor is improved and corrected.
+
+    o	na.omit.ts and na.contiguous now preserve time-series attributes.
+
+    o	more automatic testing ("make check") using options(error.halt=FALSE)
+	led to the elimination of dozens (!) of seg.fault possibilities.
+
+    o	family quasi handles zero observations with var=mu^2 more correctly.
+
+    o	dynamically-loaded libraries are searched last-loaded first, as
+	documented (under Unix it used to be first-loaded first).
+
+    o	rowsum failed with a matrix and a single group (drop=FALSE needed).
+
+    o	deriv(y ~ <expr>(x)) now works as well as  deriv(~ <expr>(x)).
+
+    o	qr over-estimated ranks in some degenerate cases.
+	qr did not work correctly if n < p and the first n cols were
+	rank-deficient.
+
+    o	str() wouldn't work quite right for named characters;  doesn't quote
+	symbols anymore.
+
+    o	Colour conversion (rgb, gray, hsv) truncated doubles and so
+	gave machine-dependent results on the examples. It now rounds.
+
+    o	cat() now admits again that it can't handle lists instead of
+	"random" segfaulting.
+
+    o	More accurate rounding (including rounding to even) on platforms
+	without rint (e.g. Windows).
+
+    o	qgeom() is now left-continuous with a tolerance, and so the
+	example on the help page will be platform-independent.
+
+    o	pretty() has been changed to use tolerance around integers and
+	so will be more platform-independent. The exact output has
+	probably changed on all platforms for some input.
+
+    o	image() & filled.contour() now work for 1x1 matrices
+	and with constant z values.
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.65.0
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	A first step in improving performance has been made.
+	Attached objects, libraries etc are now hashed; performance
+	gains will be particularly apparent if large packages are in use.
+
+    o	First version of package ts for time-series analysis.
+	This has fairly complete S-PLUS compatibility, but more features
+	are planned. See library(help=ts) for details.
+
+    o	warnings can be collected (options(warn=0), the default), printed
+	immediately (options(warn=1)) or turned into errors (options(warn=2)).
+	As a consequence, all warnings and errors now are printed followed
+	by a newline, if one is not supplied. (This should improve the
+	S compatibility of the use of PROBLEM ... in compiled code.)
+
+
+
+    o	All R environment variables are now of the form `R_xxx'.  In
+	particular, `RHOME', `RLIBS' and `RPROFILE' are now called
+	`R_HOME', `R_LIBS', and `R_PROFILE'.
+
+    o	The handling of q()/quit()/EOF has been changed, with a new option
+	"default".  In interactive use this asks unless --save or --no-save
+	has been specified: if these are specified they set the default.
+
+    o	Limited capability for tilde expansion of file names even without
+	readline (on Unix, and on Windows).
+
+    o	New environment variables `R_HISTFILE' and `R_HISTSIZE' for the
+	name and size of the history file.
+
+    o	Attempting to restore (at startup) too large a .RData is now
+	a fatal error.
+
+    o	The loading of shared library on Unix now uses RTLD_NOW not
+	RTLD_LAZY.  This means that all symbols must be resolvable
+	when the library is loaded, and R will not terminate later
+	when a missing symbol is called.  Code which had missing symbols
+	(including some packages) will need to be re-compiled.
+
+
+
+    o	New generic function all.equal();
+	most useful for numerical comparisons `up to rounding errors'.
+
+    o	New function boxplot.formula() as a formula interface to boxplots.
+
+    o	New functions getwd() and setwd() for getting and setting the R
+	working directory, basename() and dirname() for manipulating paths.
+
+    o	Function locator(, type=) is implemented to plot points or
+	draw lines interactively.
+
+    o	Functions new.env() to create empty environment and local() to
+	allow local evaluation of expressions, with various useful
+	idiomatic uses.
+
+    o	Convenience functions parent.frame() and eval.parent().
+
+
+
+    o	A new scheme for keeping source code with user-defined
+	functions has been implemented. In particular, comments
+	will no longer move about or disappear. The flip side of the
+	coin is that you can no longer rely on R to indent your
+	code for you. The stored-source facility can be turned
+	off with options(keep.source=FALSE), and for an individual
+	function by deleting the "source" attribute.
+
+	If the source attribute is absent, the function will be
+	deparsed for editing or printing, but any comments will be
+	lost.
+
+    o	expressions have gained semantics that are closer to
+	those of S. They don't get evaluated except when explicitly
+	specified. Example:
+
+	e <- expression(x); e[[1]] <- expression(123); eval(e)
+
+	now gives expression(123), not 123. This fixes some problems
+	with expressions in the list argument to do.call().
+
+
+
+    o	contrast() no longer drops colnames for 1DF contrasts.
+	Consequentially, the labels of regression coefficients for binary
+	factors contain level names (again ...).
+
+    o	na.omit() and na.fail() are now generic.
+
+    o	plot.lm() has more options and now does 4 plots by default, should
+	also be okay for "glm" object; all thanks to John Maindonald.
+
+    o	If the dimnames of a table are themselves named, then their names
+	are used to label the respective dimensions in tabular output.
+
+    o	chisq.test() now optionally computes the p-value by Monte Carlo
+	simulation (in the standard case of a 2-d contigency table).
+
+    o	source() has a new argument `chdir' for changing the working
+	directory to that of the file being sourced when evaluating.
+
+    o	If data() loads an R source file, it now changes the working
+	directory (to that containing the file) when evaluating.
+
+    o	Interpret strings NaN and Inf in character to numeric conversions
+	(and thereby in read.table)
+
+    o	The presence of an object `.conflicts.OK' in a package suppresses
+	conflict checking in library() for that package.
+
+    o	uniroot() can now be used recursively.
+
+    o	hdf5{read|write} now allow more kinds of attributes and add support
+	for HDF5 version 1.2 (or newer)	thanks to Marcus G. Daniels.
+	Configure checks for HDF5 1.2 availability, older versions will
+	no longer work.
+
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	x ^ y  gives proper results when x or y are infinite.
+
+    o	The semantics of <<- have been corrected.  The search for
+	a variable binding to modify now begins one level "up" from
+	the current one.   Thus S and R semantics in "non-closure"
+	functions will be identical.
+
+    o	.Last() is called when terminating with q() (not just with EOF).
+
+    o	abline() now understands the "lwd" graphics parameter if it
+	is supplied as an inline argument.
+
+    o	axis() now sorts `labels' when it sorts `at'.
+
+    o	Some small changes have made in the axis drawing code to
+	ensure that tick-mark label alignment is correct for
+	non-default values of the "las" parameter.
+
+    o	Improved error message from check.options().
+
+    o	cm.colors(n) now doesn't append silly "v=1"; works for n=0, n=1.
+
+    o	cooks.distance() now also works for "glm" objects;
+	deviance.lm() now ok for the case of weights.
+
+    o	date() doesn't return a final "\n" (again ...).
+
+    o	diag() and diag<- now handle correctly matrices with zero rows or cols.
+
+    o	help([<-.factor) (etc) work again.
+
+    o	is.recursive(list(.)) is now TRUE [PR#221].
+
+    o	log(0) gives -Inf on all architectures.
+
+    o	When persp() was the first graphics command given to R it gave
+	the error "plot.new() has not been called yet".	 This no
+	longer happens.
+
+    o	pgamma() gave 0 or 1 for extreme arguments too soon.
+
+    o	plot(<function>, log="x") doesn't give a silly warning any more.
+
+    o	The internals of postscript() have been changed so that line
+	textures (dotted dashed etc) look better.  The use of the
+	PostScript "initclip" operator has been removed so that we
+	can(?) really claim eps compliance.
+
+    o	revsort() misbehaved if n<=1, causing sample(1,1,,1) to
+	segfault
+
+    o	seq(along = v) { and seq(v) when length(v) > 1 } now returns
+	a result of mode "integer".
+
+    o	split.default() now uses subscripting for x with a non-null
+	class, this preserves, e.g., the class of factors
+
+    o	substr/substring(), deparse(), dput(), dump(), print()
+	will work for arbitrarily long strings.
+
+    o	which(x) failed when x had names and contained NAs.
+
+    o	Default editor files (e.g. from fix()) are now removed at termination.
+
+    o	Typos in NegBinomial.Rd (Negative Binomial distrib), thanks to Ch. Gu.
+
+    o	a clipping problem for plots when there non-zero outer margins
+	has been fixed.	 This problem used to affect coplot() and pairs().
+
+    o	get("zzz", mode="xxx") missed promise objects.
+
+    o	match.fun failed when a data frame was attached containing a
+	"length" variable (e.g.)
+
+
+	**************************************************
+	*						 *
+	*	       0.64 SERIES NEWS			 *
+	*						 *
+	**************************************************
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.64.2
+
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	new target for R installation testing :	 make strict-tests.
+
+    o	symnum(x) now nicely codes logical x.
+
+    o	convolve() has a new type = c("circular", "open", "filter")
+	argument allowing more than the only circular convolution.
+
+    o	par(xpd) now has three settings:  FALSE (clip to plot region),
+	TRUE (clip to figure region), or NA (clip to device region).
+
+    o	zapsmall(x) works for complex x.
+
+    o	new global variable R.version.string (for plots & reports).
+	Deprecated version & Version for new  R.version & R.Version.
+
+    o	R CMD Rd2dvi has builtin "Usage" help and works for multiple files.
+	Useful for automatic reference manual of a package.
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	power() is now fully implemented and documented.
+
+    o	A couple of problems with group generic operations.
+
+    o	A bug which meant that it was not possible to add elements
+	to zero length lists in the obvious way has been fixed.
+		x <- list(); x[[1]] <- 10
+		x <- list(); x[["a"]] <- 11
+	both now work.
+
+    o	save.image() ignored dot-names. (esp. .First())
+
+    o	lab= argument to plot() misinterpreted by axis() via ... passing
+
+    o	NULL labels in text() caused segfault
+
+    o	matrix(f,...) with f a factor now coerces to character
+
+    o	documentation errors for substitute and is.vector, minor fixups for
+	trig and nlm
+
+    o	Background colours are set properly on X11 devices with
+	colortype="pseudo": sometimes they were not allocated separately.
+
+    o	C() works (again?) for a single argument.
+
+    o	is.na() didn't work properly for "list" arguments.
+
+    o	symnum() sometimes failed with arrays of rank >= 3.
+
+    o	in some cases one could get nonblack color instead of
+	black on 2nd x11() window.
+
+    o	influence.measures(.) $ is.influential was wrong on the
+	cooks.distance.
+
+    o	printing of complex NaN/Inf was wrong as well.
+
+    o	printing of complex named vectors had a wrong initial space.
+
+    o	allow trailing space in character->numeric coercion
+
+    o	library() gave wrong "masked" warnings in some cases.
+
+    o	par(xpd) semantics were not compatible with S.
+
+    o	rect() output was not clipped in PostScript.
+
+    o	par(pin=c(width, height)) was behaving as par(pin=c(width, width)).
+
+    o	Non-blank separated data files didn't have their 1st field
+	handled properly.
+
+    o	"aux" directory moved to "tools" to avoid difficulties on
+	Windows.
+
+    o	structure() clobbered factors with missing levels.
+
+    o	pmatch() misbehaved on duplicate matches.
+
+    o	R CMD Rd2dvi <file.Rd> works again.
+
+    o	logical binops tried to set time series parameters before dimensions.
+
+    o	upped the BUFSIZE in model.c (NOT proper long-term solution).
+
+    o	dput(), dump() and deparse()  now always use DBL_DIG (=15) digits
+	for numeric formatting.
+
+    o	chull() now works for vertical borders, such as in chull(c(1,1,2),3:1).
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.64.1
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	barplot() and boxplot() are now generic
+
+    o	relevel function to reorder levels in factors.
+
+    o	contr.treatment now has a base= argument for selecting the
+	baseline group.
+
+    o	New command line option `--no-environ' (under Unix) to prevent
+	sourcing the `~/.Renviron' file.  Implied by `--vanilla'.
+
+    o	Packages can now have a configure script.  If a file `configure'
+	is found it is executed before anything else is done by R
+	INSTALL.
+
+    o	If HTML help files are asked for but not available, text help
+	is used.
+
+    o	HTML help file conversion reports unsatisified \link{..}s.
+
+    o	`vsize' and `nsize' can be set by the environment variables
+	R_VSIZE and R_NSIZE respectively, perhaps most conveniently from
+	`~/.Renviron' under Unix or Windows.  Command-line settings will
+	take precedence.
+
+	The defaults have been increased to 6M and 250k.
+
+    o	zip files can be used for storing help and example files. See
+	the help files for "help" and "example" for details.
+
+    o	New submission method "none" (for not sending email) in
+	bug.report().
+
+    o	`R CMD check' can now also be used for installed packages without
+	the corresponding sources.
+
+    o	The sources for the Windows port are included in src/gnuwin32.
+	See src/gnuwin32/readme.
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	deparser left off empty parentheses on e.g. (function(x) x)()
+
+    o	cat() now works on "name" objects
+
+    o	forgot to set jump buffer in return context in one case
+
+    o	parser dropped off tagged missing args on function calls ( f(a=) )
+
+    o	relops tried to set time series parameters before dimensions
+
+    o	arithmetic tried to set time series parameters before dimensions
+
+    o	mvfft fixes (from Martyn Plummer) - not working with vectors and
+	segfault problem.
+
+    o	Rephrased error message on invalid assignment target.
+
+    o	ifelse() now evaluates yes/no only if needed
+
+    o	PROTECT'ed some memory in NewExtractNames that was getting overwritten
+	during garbage collection.
+
+    o	Crossing factors (`:') works again.
+
+    o	terms.formula used to choke on terms more than 60 characters long
+
+    o	is.nan() should now work correctly on new/old-style lists.
+
+    o	x[[i]] did not work correctly for negative subscripts i.
+
+    o	as.list() didn't work for expressions
+
+    o	x[[i]] <- quote(a) (x generic vector) didn't work
+
+    o	for method functions: many argument name changes, add ... where
+	needed, for consistency with the generic function.
+
+    o	example() will allow (again) aliased topic names.
+
+    o	HTML help file conversions will find hyperlinks in the main
+	library as well as the current library. Links containing `<'
+	or `>' now work properly.
+
+    o	Rdconv conversion of \section{}{}s to Sd corrected.
+
+    o	ppois rounded non-integer `q', should truncate.
+
+    o	pnbinom was wrong for non-integer `q'.
+
+    o	dbinom, dgeom, dnbinom, dpois give 0 with a warning for
+	non-integer arguments.
+
+    o	load / save / data allow unlimited string sizes.
+
+    o	strsplit() allows unlimited string size.
+
+    o	eigen() now should work (again) in all cases.
+
+    o	is.nan() fixed to work (again) in architectures with
+	"unspecified" internal isnan().
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.64.0
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	Files BUGS and FAQ are now included with distribution and
+	various "front matter" files have been cleaned up.
+
+    o	readline has now an argument  prompt = ""
+
+    o	coplot() now labels levels when conditioning variable is factor
+	(John Maindonald).
+
+    o	A new function filled.contour() has been added.	 It produces
+	a variant of contour plots where the area between contours
+	is filled with a solid colour.	The function (currently)
+	uses the layout() function and so is restricted to a full
+	page display.
+
+    o	The function terrain.colors() has been modified to remove a
+	visual discontinuity (at yellow).  In addition, a function
+	cm.colors() which implements a Cleveland-style cyan-magenta
+	palette has been added.
+
+    o	Primitive function .External() to call dynamically loaded
+	`internal'-style functions (code from Jean Meloche).
+
+    o	Function page() to view an R object in a pager.
+
+    o	Support for handling embedded '\n's in text strings
+	handed to low-level graphics functions has been added.
+	Some changes to the PostScript graphics driver were
+	needed to support this, so there may some minor change
+	in the appearance of plots produced in PostScript.
+
+    o	The LaTeX documentation is now split into 2 parts: the (currently
+	almost non-existent) manual and a reference index.
+	Manual: new section on loading C++ code.
+
+    o	[EXPERIMENTAL] Gnome support added. Use ./configure --with-gnome
+	to try it, but don't expect too much yet.
+
+    o	HDF5 support improved. Still not perfect, though.
+
+    o	The X11 graphics driver can now use a variety of strategies
+	for handing color.  This means that it is now possible to
+	use black and white or grayscale graphics on color displays.
+	There are two strategies for handing color on pseudocolor
+	displays.  The original "allocate-colors-until-they-run-out"
+	strategy has been supplemented by one which allocates a
+	color cube at startup and approximates requested colors
+	by those in the cube.  On truecolor displays, there is no
+	limit on the number of colors which can be displayed and
+	you get exactly the color you request.	(Note that
+	Directcolor and staticcolor displays are not supported yet).
+
+    o	The persp() function now allows shading of the rendered	surface
+	using a simple lighting model.
+
+    o	Many functions providing an interface to the operating system
+	have been made "platform independent".	See the manual entries
+	for "file", "list.files" and "file.show" for details of the new
+	interface.  The system.file() interface has been changed.
+
+    o	There is a new function "eval.with.vis" which behaves exactly
+	like "eval", but which returns both the result of the evaluation
+	an a logical value indicating whether the value is ``visible''.
+	This has been used to replace some ad-hoc tests for whether
+	value should be printed or not in "source".  As a consequence,
+	the "example" and "demo" functions no longer print invisible
+	values when the example script is run.
+
+    o	Index files in data directories in packages should be `00Index'
+	not `index.doc'.
+
+    o	Function interaction() to compute factor interactions.
+
+    o	load() can load to specific environments.
+
+    o	Sockets interface: make/read/write/close.socket()
+
+    o	Function chull() for planar convex hulls
+
+    o	pairs.formula() allows formula notations for scatter plot matrix.
+
+    o	new dataset co2.
+
+    o	documentation for datasets mtcars, plants, pressure, randu and
+	sleep.
+
+    o	the sunspots dataset is now monthly rather than annual.
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	strsplit(), scan() and friends use a much larger char buffer
+	 (still fixed size; this will change again)
+
+    o	ts() allows a data-frame argument `data'.
+
+    o	anova.lm handles singular models better, and deparses responses.
+
+    o	dump() now uses digits=12 rather than the current setting.
+
+    o	tabulate ignores entries beyond nbins rather than core dumps.
+
+    o	?.C documents what C/Fortran types R objects correspond to
+	in foreign function calls, which is not what everyone thought.
+
+    o	changed long to int in several .C calls to follow the above rules.
+
+    o	rbind(x1,x2) now does not lose dimnames when xi are
+	character or complex.
+
+    o	readline() accidentally inherited menu()'s prompt.
+
+    o	.C() and .Fortran() now correctly report that there might be
+	NaN/Infs, not just NAs, unless NAOK=TRUE.
+
+    o	Resizing an inactive graphics window to an invalid size left
+	that window active and produced a spurious prompt and newline
+	in the console window.	This no longer happens.
+
+    o	poly() rescales x to increase accuracy
+
+    o	apply() preserves names in yet another case [-> new example].
+
+    o	phyper() now works for larger arguments than before.
+
+    o	Missing values didn't work in log plot
+
+    o	outer() doesn't produce all-empty dimnames any more
+
+    o	quantile.default() works when `probs' has zero length
+
+    o	example() now works again in all cases [AnIndex spaces].
+
+    o	typos fixed in nlm() message, glm help
+
+    o	pt() now works better for extreme `df' arguments and gives
+	at least an approximate answer for ncp > 37.6. __more to change__
+
+    o	fixed some glitches with formatC() and its docs.
+
+    o	several fixes in *.c code to make -Wall happy
+
+    o	curve() [and plot.function()] now use proper `x' values with log="x";
+	`type = "."' now works with curve() and plot.function()
+
+    o	zapped old windows files since they didn't build any more.
+	The sources for the later gnuwin32 version are expected to
+	appear here for 0.64.1. The #ifdef Win32's here are for that
+	version.
+
+
+	**************************************************
+	*						 *
+	*	       0.63 SERIES NEWS			 *
+	*						 *
+	**************************************************
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.63.3
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	get() and assign() allow position in search list to be a
+	character string. (e.g. get("delete.response","package:base")
+
+    o	HTML search now works for all packages (after new installation).
+
+    o	R INSTALL now also copies DESCRIPTION file to target dir.
+
+    o	offsets should work with lm as well as with glm now
+
+    o	range() is now in the Summary group, trunc() back in the Math
+	group.
+
+    o	Under Unix, R-specific environment variables can now be kept/set
+	in `~/.Renviron'.
+
+    o	New options `latexcmd' and `dvipscmd' for specifying the locations
+	of LaTeX and dvips; corresponding environment variables renamed to
+	`R_LATEXCMD' and `R_DVIPSCMD'.
+
+    o	--vsize & --nsize now both give size in "single units"
+	(bytes/cons cells) with possible
+	suffixes "M" (Mega), "K"ilo (1024) and "k"ilo(1000).
+
+    o	[pdqr]negbin() now also work with non-integer 'size' [by Ben Bolker].
+
+    o	New standard package `lqs' for resistant regression and
+	covariance estimation, contributed by Brian Ripley.
+
+    o	new functions match.fun() and kronecker() [by Jonathan Rougier]
+
+    o	par(las = 3) is a new option.
+
+    o	new function jitter()  [slightly more useful than S's].
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	system(command, intern=FALSE, ignore.errors=FALSE)
+	changed 1st & 3rd argument names and is better documented.
+
+    o	"/Font5 /Symbol findfont definefont" confused some printers
+
+    o	Bounding box rotated 90 deg for landscape (shouldn't be)
+
+    o	Legend skipped symbol for pch=0
+
+    o	compilation on non-Intel Linux systems no longer looks for __setfpucw
+
+    o	a %% b -- is now periodic instead of symmetric; more S compatible.
+
+    o	locator(n=512) -- default: MANY points, not just one.
+
+    o	qqnorm() uses ppoints() and returns list with x sorted along y.
+
+    o	plot.formula now allows ylab to be set
+
+    o	plotmath had trouble with paste()'ing expressions
+
+    o	plotting math expressions now also works for objects of mode
+	"call" (in particular on the result of substitute())
+
+    o	locator() on log axes: value antilogged twice
+
+    o	(a real oldie - and trival too) is.recursive now TRUE for
+	expressions
+
+    o	sanitised delete.response
+
+    o	x[["a",]] could crash R
+
+    o	strwidth() crashed R if no device open
+
+    o	predict inconsistencies with offsets straightened out
+
+    o	tapply goofed when FUN returned named scalar
+
+    o	[.factor now retains contrasts attrib.
+
+    o	hist() had trouble with plotting math
+
+    o	HTML indices get only built when installing a package to RHOME
+
+    o	subscripting with a length zero logical no longer bombs.
+
+    o	as.ordered(NULL) now returns an "ordered" object.
+
+    o	--debugger .. now gives a warning if other command line args are used
+
+    o	pt(t, df, ncp) now also works for bigger ncp's
+
+    o	apply(a,d, fun) now passes vectors (rank 1 arrays) to fun.
+
+    o	model.frame() with subset and only one column fixed
+
+    o	boxplot(<data.frame>) now works again.
+
+    o	dyn.load(..) failing gives more informative error message.
+
+    o	Ops.factor:  not error, but a warning + NAs
+
+    o	bug.report() keeps report file if can't be e-mailed
+
+    o	Ops.data.frame :  things like  d.fr < a	  now return a matrix
+
+    o	data.frame():  duplicated row.names now give a warning when dropped.
+
+    o	boxplot(.., ylim=..) or (.., axes=..)  gave erronous warning
+
+    o	glm had wrong init code for models with offsets. Also fixed
+	so that linear predictor includes offset, also when predicting.
+
+    o	predict.glm didn't work with se=T
+
+    o	backsolve(), qr.solve... now return a vector when x (or y) is a vector.
+
+    o	string tags now converted to symbols and strange symbolic
+	tags print as strings, cf. e<-quote(c(F=2, "tail area" = .5)), etc.
+
+    o	row.names(.) <- val  doesn't allow duplicated values anymore.
+
+    o	library(mva)'s dist() now works with both "euclidean" & "euclidian"
+
+    o	revised curve function to avoid using grep patterns that caused
+	problems under Solaris 2.6
+
+    o	coplot() now has 'number' and 'overlap' arguments, and should work
+	in more situations. [by John Maindonald and MM].
+
+    o	save(..ascii=TRUE) now uses "full precision" for numerics.
+
+    o	as.array() preserves names()
+
+    o	outer() works for general array args and preserves (dim)names.
+
+    o	print.factor and print.ordered now return their args invisibly.
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.63.2
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	sink() has new `append' argument.
+
+    o	new function rle().
+
+    o	plot(.) and  curve(.) also accept a function as first argument.
+	new `plot.function'.
+
+    o	new function loglin().
+
+    o	pretty() has new arguments and now better "obeys" its `n' arg.
+	Internal GPretty() [implicitly used by	axis(.., at = NULL,..)
+	now uses pretty.
+
+    o	new generic function aggregate() with methods for data frames
+	and time series.
+
+    o	data set `euro' with Euro conversion rates.
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	model.frame(,subset=) no longer loses contrasts
+
+    o	`make install' copied the R shell script a second time without
+	getting RHOME right (thus also breaking R CMD check).  Fixed.
+
+    o	help() after help.start() did not work if topic was not equal
+	to filename (e.g. rnorm is found in Normal.html)
+
+    o	fix the 0.63.1 fix for abbreviate(.);  improved doc.
+
+    o	predict.mlm(.) couldn't have worked with `newdata'.
+
+    o	model.frame/na.omit bug for matrices and Surv objects.
+
+    o	mean( <data.frame> ) now doesn't return sum(.) anymore.
+
+    o	str(.) doesn't give extraneous "..." in rare cases anymore.
+
+    o	Added documentation for group methods ("Math", "Ops","Summary").
+
+    o	R_PAPERSIZE is used for Rd2dvi and at configure time for the
+	`make dvi' parts.
+
+    o	hist(i) now also works for e.g., i = -1, 0, or 1.
+
+    o	range() now works on dataframes (uses c(..., recursive=T))
+
+    o	pretty(.) does not loop infinitely anymore in very extreme cases.
+
+    o	math functions should work better on dataframes now
+
+    o	plot(.., type = 'h', log = 'y')	 now works ...
+
+    o	plot.factor(x, y, ...) of two factors now makes
+	barplot(table(y,x), ...)
+
+    o	use object$prior.weights in add1.glm, drop1.glm (Brian Ripley)
+
+    o	rnorm(1,mean=m,sd=0) returns m, not NaN (Ben Bolker)
+
+    o	runif(n, a,a) now returns  rep(a,n) instead of NaNs.
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.63.1
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	new function mosaicplot().
+
+    o	xy.coords(.) has a  "recycle = FALSE" argument,	 used in text().
+
+    o	RNGtype() allows to choose different Random Number Generators.
+		__EXPERIMENTAL__
+
+    o	print.default(.) now also works with a `right = TRUE' argument.
+	{{ print.matrix(.) is bound to become deprecated... }}
+
+    o	new help page `Memory' on the usage of command line options
+	--vsize and --nsize. Error message if R runs out of memory
+	points to help(Memory).
+
+    o	rowsum() and improved na.omit() added from survival4
+
+    o	backsolve(.) has new arguments "upper.tri = TRUE, transpose = FALSE"
+
+    o	hist() has new "right = TRUE" argument;
+	"right = FALSE" gives  [a,b) intervals
+
+    o	help() has "htmlhelp" argument, allowing to suppress htmlhelp after
+	help.start().  This is desired for ESS.
+
+    o	quantile(.) has an "names = TRUE" argument for speed.
+	It is much better documented now.
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	build-help --dosnames should now also work for text help,
+	latex and examples.
+
+    o	seq() should work better now (fuzz-factor 1e-7 inserted)
+
+    o	multiple arguments to return caused value to be a pairlist
+
+    o	data.frame choked on long names from deparse()
+
+    o	data.edit now works (dataedit doesn't need pairlist()s anymore)
+
+    o	as.pairlist(NULL) is ok
+
+    o	ts(1:5, start=2, end=4) now work.  Further plot(ts(..), ts(..))
+
+    o	eigen() returns $vectors in any case [S compat].
+
+    o	apply(cbind(1,1:9, 2, quantile) doesn't drop quantile names anymore
+
+    o	array(1, dim=(1:3)[c(F,F,F)]) is now valid == array(1,NULL) == c(1);
+	the same for array(a,d, list())
+
+    o	fix problem with step() and offsets
+
+    o	drop attributes on matrix subsetting
+
+    o	kappa(.) now works [dtrco now in load table (ROUTINES)].
+
+    o	pmin() and pmax() now preserve attributes.
+
+    o	handle null models arising in drop1(), step, etc.
+
+    o	partial matching problem with $ indexing
+
+    o	matplot(.) works with lwd (vectors)
+
+    o	par("cex.axis") now has the desired effect...
+
+    o	which(.) now omits NAs in its argument.
+
+    o	rbind.data.frame caused character-to-factor coercion a bit too often
+
+    o	couple of messups in dotplot
+
+    o	z[[1]] <- ~x probl fixed as suggested by J.Lindsey
+
+    o	do_modelframe could lose contrast attributes
+
+    o	"make check" needed standardisation of locale
+
+    o	unlist(...,recursive=F) got names wrong
+
+    o	abbreviate(.) does not anymore return random garbage in some
+	cases [by Guido M.]
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.63
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	library(... , warn.conflicts = TRUE)
+	now prints all conflicts arising from attaching the given package.
+
+    o	new  .Platform	variable  for better modularizing
+	platform dependence. __This_is_"beta"_and_bound_to_be_changed___
+
+    o	new arguments to colnames(..) and
+	rownames(x, do.NULL = TRUE, prefix = "row").
+			   _
+    o	par(bty = "]") for _| box(.) in plots.
+
+    o	New standard package `modreg' (smoothing and local MODern
+	REGression methods) contributed by B.D. Ripley.
+
+    o	par() has a `no.readonly = FALSE' argument which allows more
+	sensible  op <- par(no.readonly = TRUE);  on.exit(par(op)).
+
+    o	Real Bessel functions of 1st to 3rd kind, of arbitrary order:
+	besselI(), besselK(), besselJ(), besselY() are the I(), K(),
+	J(), and Y() Bessel functions.
+
+    o	New conflicts() function from B.D. Ripley
+
+    o	uniroot has a new `maxiter' argument and returns #{iter} and
+	precision.
+
+    o	New option `show.coef.Pvalue' (default: TRUE).	If FALSE,
+	print.summary.[g]lm does not print P values.
+
+    o	New `R --vanilla' is equivalent to
+	  R --no-save --no-restore --no-site-file --no-init-file
+
+    o	gc() has now a `verbose' argument and returns a matrix with free
+	and total n- and v-cells(heap).
+
+    o	New example(<foo>) function runs the \emph{Examples} R code of
+	<foo>.	example() calls source() which now has a `verbose'
+	instead of `debug' argument.
+
+    o	experimental functions [as.|is.|]pairlist() for the few old-style
+	dotted pair lists [undocumented].
+
+    o	options(check.bounds = TRUE) makes sub-assignments which
+	"stretch" a vector give a warning [dropped undocumented
+	check.bounds() function].
+
+    o	Makefiles should now conform (mostly) with the GNU Coding
+	Standards.  In particular, `make install', `make uninstall'
+	and `make install-strip' now work.
+	Also, it is now possible to build R in a non-source directory.
+
+    o	which() preserves names and has a new `arr.ind' argument
+	allowing for array indices.
+
+    o	New functions {d,p,q,r}signrank for the Wilcoxon signed rank
+	distribution, and {d,p,q,r}wilcox for the Wilcoxon (rank sum)
+	distribution.
+
+    o	Command line options GNUified a bit further.
+	New command line option `--verbose' for printing more
+	information about progress.
+	Command line options `--vsize' and `--hsize' as replacements
+	for `-v' and `-n' which are now deprecated.
+	Added `--silent' as synonym for `--quiet'.
+	Short-style option `-V' obsolete.
+
+    o	Added bug.report() to generate & send bug reports from
+	within R.
+
+    o	The PostScript device driver now uses the ISO Latin1 font
+	encoding.  This should allow Western Europeans to render
+	their languages correctly.  It is likely that additional
+	encodings will be added (e.g. Latin2) when we figure out
+	how to set the correct font encoding in printers.
+
+    o	The mathematical annotation code has been reworked.  Italic
+	correction works better.  Additional functionality will be
+	added.
+
+    o	"sample" now has an optional "prob" argument which gives the
+	probabilities of sampling each element in the vector being
+	sampled.  The present implementation is based on some code
+	from E. S. Venkatraman <venkat@biosta.mskcc.org>.
+
+    o	The internal data structure used to represent lists has
+	changed from being based on dotted pairs to generic vectors.
+	Users should see no changes as a result (with the exception
+	of some efficiency gains in list operations).
+
+    o	Subscripting matches that of S more closely.  It is now
+	possible to use subscripting beyond that the end of vectors
+	and lists.
+
+    o	Element labelling in "c" and "unlist" should match that of
+	of S.
+
+    o	Added split.screen etc functions for manipulating multiple
+	screens on a single device
+
+    o	After help.start() the HTML help system is used for all help()
+	requests. The name of the browser is now controlled by
+	options("browser").
+
+    o	Added kmeans to package mva (donated by B. Ripley)
+
+    o	New persp function added.  It is NOT compatible with S (yet)
+	and is subject to internal and interface changes.
+
+    o	gctorture() for torturing the garbage collector to reveal
+	memory protection bugs. (Call GC on every memory allocation).
+
+    o	B. Ripley's aov code (and more) has been added. This includes:
+
+	- aov() now handles models with Error terms, multiple
+	  responses.
+
+	- proj(), model.tables(), se.contrast(), replications(),
+	  eff.aovlist() are implemented for aov fits, and where
+	  appropriate for lm fits.
+
+	- dummy.coef(), with methods for lm and aovlist fits.
+
+	- add1(), drop1(), step() for stepwise fitting of statistical
+	  models, with default, lm and glm methods.
+
+	- summary() and deviance() -- mlm methods.
+
+	- kappa()  (for estimating condition numbers)
+
+	- labels() to find a suitable set of labels from an object
+
+	- C() for setting the contrasts of a factor
+
+	- anova(), plot(), summary() and deviance() methods for mlm fits
+
+    o	eval() semantics changed when envir= is a list. A 3rd argument is
+	now allowed, specifying the enclosure (i.e. where R looks for
+	variables *not* found in envir=) it defaults to the calling
+	environment (was .GlobalEnv). Note that when used inside a function,
+	it is often desirable to set the enclosure to the parent
+	environment instead. [ eval(e, data, sys.frame(sys.parent())) ]
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	min(NULL); max(double())  now give warnings.  range() gives NA.
+
+    o	substring("", NULL) no longer segfaults.
+
+    o	formatC(.) now takes default "width = 1" when both width and digits
+	are unspecified.
+
+    o	several fixes in internal axis and tickmarks setup for
+	"extreme" ranges and values, especially for "log" scaling.
+
+    o	seq(a,a, by=b) now works properly.
+
+    o	print.data.frame(.) now calls print.matrix instead of print(.)
+	which finally enables the 'right = TRUE' argument.
+
+    o	R --help  gives more
+
+    o	postscript() now uses 'hyphen' instead of 'plusminus' for a minus.
+
+    o	source(..., echo=TRUE) now puts a `"' if necessary after truncation.
+
+    o	Changes to the PostScript device driver mean that the volume
+	of output has been reduced to about a third of what it was.
+
+    o	Fixes and restructuring to name generation in connection with
+	unlist() and c().
+
+    o	Many bugs found and fixed in the memory allocation / garbage
+	collection area. In particular, the parser was sometimes
+	UNPROTECT()ing the wrong pointers.
+
+    o	lm(y[g=="1"]~x[g=="1"]) caused memory corruption
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.62.4
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	plot.default(.) has now 'sub' argument which eliminates
+	"Warning: parameter "sub" couldn't be set in high-level plot() function"
+
+    o	formatC(numeric(0)) now works.
+
+    o	menu(.) works for empty imput
+
+    o	0i ^ 2	now gives  0+0i as it should.
+
+    o	ppoints() now behaves like S, and has additional argument 'a'
+
+    o	seq(1,6,by=3) and similar "by" calls now work okay
+
+    o	mahalanobis(.) now fixed; does *NOT* have default arguments for
+	center and cov anymore.
+
+    o	diag(.) doesn't return non-sensical dimnames anymore.
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.62.3
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	preserve factor levels and contrast settings in model objects
+
+    o	factor[...,drop=T] reduces level set
+
+    o	added dblepr, intpr
+
+    o	do_modelmatrix(model.c): Set rownames from data argument.
+
+    o	New generic function preplot().
+
+    o	A new R BATCH interface for non-interactive execution.
+
+    o	Added `offline' argument to help() for producing hardcopy via
+	latex and dvips.
+
+    o	glm.fit.null now calculates AIC and print.glm.null prints it
+
+    o	effects.lm implemented
+
+    o	new class "mlm" for multivariate "lm", predict.mlm to go with it
+
+    o	"Details" section added to .Rd format
+
+    o	R_PRINTCMD and R_PAPERSIZE can now be set via users' environment,
+	overriding setting in startup script.
+
+    o	enhanced identify()
+
+    o	new function print.coefmat()
+
+    o	added unix() as .Deprecated("system")
+
+    o	date() replacing system.date()
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	substitute would re-substitute after expanding ...
+
+    o	indexing modified object in some cases
+
+    o	sweep should work again on dataframes
+
+    o	minor changes in aov()
+
+    o	builds should now actually work on systems that do not add
+	underscores to Fortran symbols
+
+    o	biplot[.default]() was redundant in "base" package; now only in "mva".
+
+    o	unix(..) now helps the user to find  system(..) instead.
+
+    o	apropos("[") and methods("[") now both work (even though "[" is not
+	a valid regular expression).
+
+    o	row.names<-.default now exists. Converts object to data
+	frame and then adds row names
+
+    o	codes() now distinguishes between ordered and unordered factors
+
+    o	codes() had *opposite* semantics of Splus. Now it's the same.
+
+    o	replicating factors now yields factors (again)
+
+    o	print.summary.xxx  functions more consistent, using new function
+	print.coefmat().
+
+    o	Changed many `T' to `TRUE'  and	 `F' to `FALSE' in the base package.
+
+    o	binary operation on 1x1 matrix lost dimension
+
+    o	fix anova.glm for null model
+
+    o	glm.fit.null: ensure df.residual == df.null for a null model
+
+    o	summary.glm: correlations in saturated cases
+
+    o	stat.anova: use match.arg and labeled switch statement
+
+    o	Major cleanup of glm iteration code
+
+    o	Correct reordering of glm coefficients if pivoting
+
+    o	Rownames on contrast matrices
+
+    o	factor() and [.factor preserves class "ordered"
+
+    o	Code rearrangement in predict.lm (avoid unnecessary computation)
+	+ let rownames through on predictions
+
+    o	model.matrix.default: Initial code to define model frame
+	simplified considerably after defaulting data argument to
+	sys.frame(sys.parent()).  This also removes the problem where
+	data.frame mangles I(x^2) and similar names, so that the
+	"reorder" sanity check at the end fails.
+
+    o	The handling of extra FORTRAN libraries (f2c-related and BLAS)
+	should now be correct.	Via SHLIBLDFLAGS, add-ons will also be
+	linked against these libraries.
+
+    o	Modified makefiles so configure followed by "make distclean"
+	should restore the source tree to its original form.
+
+    o	a leftover "colours <- colors" caused trouble when collating
+	sequence changes caused files to go into the "base" file in a
+	different order
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.62.2
+
+(The new functions predict.glm, poly, aov, alias, biplot.default and
+biplot.princop, update.default and rug all come from Brian D. Ripley,
+who is also responsible for finding and/or fixing a lot of the bugs)
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	predict.glm() added.
+
+    o	text() is generic.
+
+    o	update.default() (replaces update.glm() and update.lm()).
+	(This will only work if you comment out update.lm and
+	update.glm in the sources, or disable them with
+	update.lm<-function(object,...)NextMethod(), etc.)
+
+    o	predict.lm() changed towards S-plus compatibility. Intervals are
+	still available via interval= argument.
+
+    o	zapsmall() function.
+
+    o	polygon() now handles NAs
+
+    o	options(show.signif.stars = TRUE).  If FALSE,
+	summary.lm and similar functions do *not* print significance stars
+	anymore.
+
+    o	poly() for [g]lm modelling.
+
+    o	aov()	for Analysis Of Variance [anova].
+
+    o	alias() for displaying ``aliased'' factor levels in (>=2)way anova.
+
+    o	mva: Now has  biplot and biplot.princomp
+
+    o	rug() plot.
+
+    o	new  src/library/profile/Common.R   for	 OS-independent intialization.
+
+    o	new date stamp mechanism (ensures that prerelease versions carry
+	correct date)
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	abbreviate() now always retains the first letter.
+
+    o	attr() partial matches for attribute name.
+
+    o	axis() accepts graphical parameters.
+
+    o	binomial() accepts factor responses.
+
+    o	cbind() works with data frames.
+
+    o	contrasts() gives simpler labels (like S) for factors with
+	two levels.
+
+    o	contrasts<-() now has a how.many= argument.
+
+    o	contour() and image() can accept a list to specify the matrix.
+
+    o	contr.poly() uses orthogonal polynomials (like S) not raw
+	polynomials.
+
+    o	data() could fail with a partial match to the dataset name.
+
+    o	density() works correctly if from= or to= are used.
+	    n= can now take any value, not just a large power of 2.
+
+    o	expand.grid() now accepts more than two arguments,
+	or a list of factors.
+
+    o	factor() and ordered() handle their levels argument better.
+
+    o	family.glm() now returns the correct family (including link etc).
+
+    o	legend() now knows about lwd.
+
+    o	match.args() works correctly for default arguments.
+
+    o	model.frame.lm() did not invoke `lm'.
+
+    o	model.matrix() calls model.frame() if needed.
+
+    o	model.response() now returns names, so glm() gives names to
+	residuals, fitted values, etc.
+
+    o	quasi() works in glm() (was missing aic component).
+
+    o	seq() sometimes omitted the final value due to rounding error.
+
+    o	terms.formula() and update.formula() now resolve `.' in formulae
+	and tidy up `(a + b) - b' etc.
+
+    o	... is now passed down correctly to functions inside functions.
+
+    o	save.image didn't work (Martyn Plummer)
+
+    o	abs() instead of fabs() in seq.c crashed R on Digital Unix
+
+    o	model.matrix() gagged on variables with complicated names
+
+    o	saturated models acting up in glm
+
+    o	various improvement of build procedures
+
+    o	rbind(NULL, matrix) core dump
+
+    o	density() default 'bw' now 0.9*(...) instead of 1.06*(...)
+				[=Silverman's rule of thumb].
+
+    o	detach(2) now works.
+
+    o	format() doesn't drop names anymore.
+
+    o	format.pval() works with NAs.
+
+    o	print.[summary.][g]lm() functions print numbers better formatted.
+
+    o	legend() now also works properly in  log coordinates.
+
+    o	backsolve() now working;  bakslv.c not depending on
+	Fortran_underscores.
+
+    o	Tick marks acting up on log axes in postscript (fix from Martyn
+	Plummer)
+
+    o	The Rd format has a new section \details{} (needed for proper
+	Sd2Rd translation). \R was not understood for nroff
+	conversions, longer dashes (-- and --- in latex syntax) are
+	now converted properly.
+
+    o	prompt.default() now carries "\details{}".
+
+    o	R [ SHLIB | COMPILE ] were broken on some Solaris systems
+	due to use of bash syntax. R [ INSTALL | COMPILE | SHLIB ]
+	now use a MAKE environment variable if present.
+	R INSTALL only rebuilds man pages if they are not already
+	up to date.
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.62.1
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	Accidentally shipped R-0.62 without the tests and  etc/Rdoc
+	directories.
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.62
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	Many more help(.) pages.
+
+    o	The top level Makefile now supports the usual
+	   ./configure; make; make install
+	procedure (new make targets `all' and `install').
+
+    o	The HTML help pages can now be searched for keywords.
+
+    o	Conversion of functions to and from lists. formals<- and body<-.
+	The alist() function makes it easier to construct argument lists,
+	etc. Added expression-->list coercion.
+
+    o	complex(.) now has optional 'argument' and 'modulus' arguments,
+	allowing ``polar coordinate'' specifications.
+
+    o	layout() documented and improved: starts default device if needed, and
+	returns number of figures.
+
+    o	New find() function [relying on apropos(..)].
+
+    o	objects(<integer>) now works, being equivalent to
+	objects(pos=<int.>).
+
+    o	storage.mode() and related functions now return
+	"double" instead of "real", for compatibility.
+	"real" is still allowed as synomym for "double".
+
+    o	A `tests' directory has been added (in the source), and "make
+	tests" has been modified to run more than all the examples from
+	the base package.  The exact `make tests' behavior is still
+	bound to change.
+
+    o	An experimental directory `etc/Rdoc' has been added with a perl5
+	module to parse R documentation files.	Sample perl programs
+	to use this module are also included.
+
+    o	All internal mechanisms to support factors and data.frames have
+	been removed.  These are now entirely supported by interpreted
+	code!  `is.unordered' has been eliminated.  Thanks to John
+	Chambers for allowing the distribution of his StatLib code.
+
+    o	"pmatch" is now completely S compatible and is not just another
+	name for "charmatch".
+
+    o	There is now a function called ".Alias" which can be used to
+	provide multiple names for the same object.  Example:
+		lm2 <- .Alias(lm)
+	This is dangerous because it can be used to defeat the
+	call-by-value illusion.
+
+    o	Many functions changed from <primitive> to .Internal(..).
+	Currently, new .Internal(.)s in ..library/base/R/New-Internal.R
+	Primitive functions are now printed as ``.Primitive(..)''.
+
+    o	[dpqr]hyper(.) now also work with some 0 arguments.
+
+    o	C-code: Many "-Wall" fixes (MM & DB).
+
+    o	mva's dist() now takes arguments diag and upper which control
+	how the distance matrix is printed. plot.hclust() now takes a
+	labels argument.
+
+    o	Attributes are now propagated correctly in binary operations.
+	Changes from:
+	  Steve Oncley and Gordon Maclean
+	  National Center for Atmospheric Research
+	  Boulder, Colorado USA
+
+    o	configure now also checks for fort77.
+
+    o	Usage of R INSTALL now is
+	  R INSTALL [options] [-l lib] pkg_1 ... pkg_n
+	The +/- options were replaced by GNU-style `--no-docs' and
+	`--no-text', `--no-html', and `--no-latex'.
+
+    o	Usage of R REMOVE now is
+	  R REMOVE [options] [-l lib] pkg_1 ... pkg_n
+
+    o	Usage of R COMPILE now is R COMPILE [options] srcfiles, where
+	through options one can set e.g. CFLAGS or FFLAGS.
+
+    o	Usage of R SHLIB now is R SHLIB [-o libname] files, where the
+	file names can be that of source or object files.
+
+    o	A new R CMD interface allows invokation of executables in
+	$RHOME/{etc,cmd} without installing them or setting paths.
+
+    o	Data files are now also documented using the Rd format, all
+	data documentation in the base package has been converted
+	accordingly. Rd files for data have a \keyword{datasets} as
+	identifier.
+
+    o	new function mahalanobis() for Mahalanobis distance
+
+    o	quantile.default() now handles Inf's correctly.
+
+    o	New command line options `--enable-blas' and `--enable-readline'
+	to configure.
+
+    o	pretty(x) is more reasonable when max(x)-min(x) < 1e-10 max(|x|),
+	and has a new argument "shrink.sml" for that case.
+
+    o	formatC(.) supports a new "fg" format for flexible
+	non-exponential formatting.
+
+    o	etc/build-htmlpkglist has been integrated into etc/build-help
+	(option --htmllists)
+
+    o	family	gaussian(.) and inverse.gaussian(.) both accept several
+	link arguments [J.Lindsey].
+
+    o	The graphics function "tck" now produces effects just
+	like those in S (e.g. par(tck=1) now produces grid lines).
+	Since using "tck" produces nasty results in some circumstances
+	there is also an alternative parameter "tcl" which defines
+	the tick length in terms of lines of text.  The default
+	setting is par(tcl=-0.5).
+
+    o	menu() now takes additional arguments `graphics' (currently
+	unused) and `title'.
+
+    o	New function plot.formula().
+	plot.factor() now produces boxplots when given 2 arguments.
+
+    o	New function write.table().
+
+    o	signif() now has a `digits' default of 6.
+
+    o	Old-style long command line options (`-save' etc) changed to
+	GNU-style (`--save' etc).
+	Debugging options (`-ddd', `-gdb', `-xxgdb') unified into the
+	new `--debugger' (`-d').
+	New command line options `--version' (`-V') and `--help' (`-h')
+	which print useful information and exit.
+
+    o	The loading of profiles at startup now works as follows.
+	Unless the new `--no-site-file' was given, a site profile is
+	sought (as specified via the environment variable `RPROFILE',
+	or if this is unset defaulting to `${RHOME}/etc/Rprofile'.
+	Then, unless the new `--no-init-file' was given, the user
+	profiles (`.Rprofile' and `~/.Rprofile') are sought.
+
+    o	New functions subset() and transform() intended primarily to
+	make life with dataframes easier.
+
+    o	debian directory has been added so Debian GNU/Linux packages can be
+	created from raw source.
+
+    o	The graphics system has been through a major overhaul.
+	It is now possible to have multiple active device drivers
+	and to control them with full suite of dev.xxx() functions
+	available in S.	 Display lists are now kept for interactive
+	devices.  When an on-screen graphics window is resized,
+	the content of that window is redrawn at the new size.
+	At present only X11 and PostScript graphics device drivers
+	are available, but more are on the way.
+
+    o	On systems using IEEE arithmetic, the builtin Inf and NaN
+	values are now recognised and used.  NA and NaN should
+	propagate correctly in computations, with NA dominating
+	in computations involving both quantities.
+	E.g. NA+NaN is NA.
+
+    o	Some of the t, F, and chisq distribution/probability functions
+	now allow a noncentrality parameter `ncp'.
+
+    o	Functions ptukey() and qtukey() provide the distribution and
+	quantile functions for the maximum of several studentized
+	ranges.
+
+    o	system.file()  [now documented] returns all files matched by
+	wildcards.
+
+    o	data() now supports more file formats: .RData for binary
+	files, .txt or .tab for data to be read by
+	`read.table(file, header=TRUE)' and .csv for data to be read
+	by `read.table(file, header=TRUE, sep=";")'
+
+    o	Rdconv: new tabular environment, new sections `\format' and
+	`\source', new output format `-type Sd' for S documentation
+
+    o	.First.lib() now implemented; called by library() after loading
+	a package.
+
+    o	print.summary.[g]lm() now give `significance stars' and a symbolic
+	correlation matrix.
+
+    o	new is.R() function.
+
+    o	glm() now also returns an AIC value [from JL].
+	print..glm methods indicate the options()$contrasts in some cases.
+	In summary.glm(..., correlation=..), the default has been changed to
+	corr. = FALSE  which is consistent with	 summary.lm().
+	predict() now works again for glm objects.
+
+    o	the `flag' argument in formatC(.) can now have more than one
+	character.
+
+    o	nlm() returns the number of iterations used [from J.Lindsey].
+
+    o	cut, diff, hist, mean, quantile, seq, trunc()  are now all generic.
+	cut() has an `include.lowest' argument as S.
+
+    o	save.image() as short-cut to save the current session in .RData.
+
+    o	new design of HTML help pages, including an index of all
+	functions from all installed packages.
+
+    o	new editor function pico()
+
+    o	matrices and arrays can have zero extents
+
+BUG FIXES (many of which resulted from the added features...)
+
+    o	atanh(.) now works
+
+    o	summary(glm) and summary(lm) now use compatible names.
+
+    o	[pq]tukey(.) now working.
+
+    o	title() now handles main=, sub=, xlab=, ylab= with embedded
+	newlines correctly.  This is partly a change in title and
+	partly a change in the underlying graphics code.
+
+    o	min(.), max(.), sum(.)	now return integer for integer arguments.
+
+    o	which(.) now returns integer.
+
+    o	Rd files: leading whitespace of lines in user-defined sections
+	was not correctly removed by Rdconv
+
+    o	sign(.) works again.
+
+    o	[.data.frame segfaulted if arg. wasn't a data frame
+
+    o	"R --no-readline" now again gives proper prompts.
+
+    o	demos/zero.R  dyn.load(.) now should be working more easily.
+
+    o	mode(.) now returns "(" for a "parentheses 'call'".
+
+    o	Bug fix in mva dist.c for method binary (gave "invalid
+	distance"). plot.hclust failed for data without row names.
+
+    o	R INSTALL should work (again) now when `pkg' is a relative file
+	name.
+
+    o	.not.yet.implemented() now takes an arbitrary number of args.
+
+    o	Plotting of dendrograms is working again.
+
+    o	data.frame(.) now uses "1:n" as default row.names.
+
+    o	image(.) and contour(.) now also work called as, e.g., ``image(z)''.
+
+    o	the first argument of axis(.) is now called `side' as in S.
+
+    o	format(NULL) now works.
+
+    o	minor fix in symnum.
+
+    o	hist() now is more compatible to S, has a new `labels' argument,
+	and should work ok for non-equidistant breaks.
+
+    o	plot(-1) now labels properly.
+
+    o	Many small code changes (eliminating extraneous variables, nested
+	comm.) in C code in order to satisfy `gcc -Wall' [Doug Bates].
+
+    o	model.extract() will now extract arbitrary model frame arguments.
+
+
+    o	list of currently loaded libraries (.Dyn.libs) not saved
+	from session to session (really, this time)
+
+    o	rhyper works with vectorisation, degenerate cases.
+
+    o	printing of objects in lists now dispatches methods correctly
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.61.2
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	pretty(999) resulted in an infinite loop due to integer overflow.
+	pretty(.) now sometimes returns different results than before.
+
+    o	pi:6  returned integer, instead of real.
+
+    o	[.data.frame caused segfault if called with non-dataframe argument
+
+    o	hist() now is more compatible to S, has a new `labels' argument,
+	and should work ok for non-equidistant breaks.
+
+    o	lgamma(-1e7) segfaulted.
+	gamma(.) and lgamma(.) now give proper results for negative integers.
+
+    o	formatC(pi,dig=20,wid=2) segfaulted.
+
+    o	quantile(..., pr = c(1,2,5)/1000)  gave all names as "0%".
+
+    o	In 0.61.1, model.matrix was fixed to pay attention to the names of
+	the names of its data arg, but the data arg was defaulting to an
+	unnamed list, so  model.matrix(~x)  failed...
+
+    o	Indexing with [[]] and a zero-length vector segfaulted.
+
+    o	Coercion of factors as in S-plus
+
+    o	dyn.load statement in demos/dynload/zero.R fixed
+
+    o	Factors could get allocated without the OBJECT bit, which
+	nearly drove Kurt mad trying to write plot.factor...
+
+    o	Fixed confidence limit problem in t.test
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.61.1
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	None (by definition, x.y.z releases are bugfix releases now)
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	Return statements of the form return(x,y) will now return
+	a list with named components.
+
+    o	Parsing of nested "if" statments was broken.  This is fixed now.
+	(Reported by Paul Gilbert).
+
+    o	Wrong declaration of ConsoleBufCnt in src/main/scan.c caused crash
+	in Irix (George White <gwhite@bodnext.bio.dfo.ca>)
+
+    o	if(nmatch = 0) bug in src/main/character.c fixed (Doug Bates)
+
+    o	R_alloc/S_alloc fixes. The former allocated 4 times more than
+	needed, the latter zeroed half of what it got, sizeof() mistakes
+	in both cases.
+
+    o	c(ordered factor) caused segfault (uninitalised pointer), now
+	fixed.
+
+    o	behaviour of as.numeric() on factors changed recently; now
+	documented.
+
+    o	model.matrix() now pays attention to the names on its dataframe
+	argument.
+
+    o	Fixes to group methods.
+
+    o	autoload() caused infinite loop if function  wasn't found in
+	library on loading
+
+    o	The pager ate the rest of stdin in batch mode, now fixed. Also,
+	stdout was not flushed before call to system(). "make tests"
+	should work now.
+
+    o	Empty directories now created by configure (so that it doesn't
+	matter that "CVS export" doesn't do it)
+
+    o	as.name() made idempotent (i.e. if is.name(x) then as.name(x)==x)
+
+    o	3 problems with glm, 2 in glm.fit and a one in print.glm fixed
+	[Jim Lindsey]
+
+    o	binomial (family) now works when 'n=0'. [J.Lindsey]
+
+    o	split() now also works in split(1:10,1:2)
+
+    o	strsplit() now also works for strsplit(c,NULL)
+
+    o	A LANG='..' environment variable no longer affects  scan()ing of
+	numbers.
+
+    o	seq(.) doesn't segfault anymore in  gl(2,3):gl(1,6)
+
+    o	contour(.) now also works with integer arguments
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.61
+
+We try to make development more flexible by creating a "CVS branch". This
+should make it easier to produce patches for obvious bugs in the releases,
+without having to wait for changes in other areas to stabilize.
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	New functions "all.vars" and "all.names" added.
+
+    o	There has been a small change in the include file structure.
+	All include files now live in RHOME/src/include and are
+	copied to RHOME/include when needed.
+
+    o	The "noquote" functions are now documented.
+
+    o	A new `language' demo, "is.things", is provided.
+
+    o	symnum(.) function
+
+    o	The files in R/library/base/data have had a .R suffix added.
+
+BUG_FIXES
+
+    o	A nasty bug which showed when attempt was made to create
+	a zero length call has been fixed.
+
+    o	model.matrix(.) now allows a  contrasts argument.
+
+    o	barplot(.) now also works for barplot(table(rpois(100,3))).
+
+    o	make clean ; make    now should work;  ./Makefile.in eliminated
+
+    o	format(.) is now generic;  the default method has a `digits' argument.
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.60.1
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	"split" is now a generic function, with a method for data frames.
+	(contributed by Doug Bates).
+
+    o	S compatible functions "all.names" and "all.vars" added.
+
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	A file was closed multiple times if an error message occurred
+	after sourcing a file.	In some versions of Linux this caused
+	a core dump.
+
+    o	The inclusion <readline/history.h> was causing problems with
+	some versions of readline because the file did not exist.
+	This is now detected by configure.
+
+
+
+		CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.60
+
+R is about to become an official part of the GNU project.
+To quote RMS (Richard Stallman)
+
+		``I hereby dub R GNU software!''
+
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+    o	There has been a major change in directory structure
+	masterminded by Kurt Hornik.
+	library(.) now attaches ``package''s which are better
+	integrated, see "?library".  Packages may be available from outside
+	the RHOME path via the .lib.loc variable.
+
+    o	The documentation format (of files in src/library/<package>/man/ )
+	has changed to a more easily parsable LaTeX like format.
+	The doc files now all end in `.Rd'.
+	etc/Rman2Rd  can be used to translate old-style documentation to
+	the new one.
+	The translation to *roff, LaTeX and HTML is now done using
+	etc/Rdconv, written in Perl by Fritz Leisch.
+
+	The HTML online help produced has now links which work.
+	The manual (in doc/manual/) now includes a section on the
+	documentation format and on mathematical text in graphs.
+
+	etc/ further contains `Sd2Rd' for (partial) translation of S `.d'
+	documentation to Rd, and
+	`Rd2txt' and `Rd2dvi' for easy previewing of single Rd files.
+
+    o	The use of "names" on one dimensional arrays will now produce
+	sensible results.  This means that for most purposes,
+	one dimensional arrays can be treated like vectors.
+
+    o	We have a applied a patch from mward@wolf.hip.berkeley.edu
+	which should substantially improve the speed of (vector)
+	arithmetic.
+
+    o	The modeling formula handler has been expanded so that it
+	accepts y ~ 0 + x as a "through the origin" specification.
+	models with no parameters are now acceptable.
+
+    o	"cov", "cor" and "var" now produce a matrix result if either
+	of their x or y arguments is a matrix.	Dimnames are propagated
+	in a sensible fashion.
+
+    o	New chisq.test(.) and prop.test() from Kurt Hornik.
+
+    o	New read.fwf(.) for reading fixed width format (KH).
+
+    o	New str(.) [alternative to summary(.) for programmers] (MM).
+
+    o	New example data sets "esoph", "infert" and "anscombe" (TL),
+	"iris3" (KH) and "stackloss" (MM).
+
+    o	source(.) has several new arguments, notably ``echo = FALSE''.
+	This is applied in the new function  demo(.) which runs all the
+	code in demos/ (but dynload).
+
+    o	strheight(.) is new, accompanying strwidth(.).
+	Both now work for mathematical expressions (Paul Murrell).
+
+    o	The LaTeX version of the manual (-> doc/manual/) now has an index.
+
+    o	EVERY *.Rd file in src/library/base/man/ has now at least one \keyword
+
+    o	New package (`library(.)') "stepfun" for step functions, incl.
+	empirical distributions.
+
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+    o	Regular expression matching is now done with system versions
+	of the regexp library.	This should fix compilation problems
+	on some platforms.
+
+    o	"approx" and "approxfun", have had some minor adjustments.
+	which fix the interpretation of the rule= argument.  The
+	code for piecewise constant case is now internal C code
+	that than interpreted.	This should boost performance in
+	this case.
+
+    o	There has been a minor fixup of "model.frame" to ensure that
+	subsets, weights, etc are handled properly.
+
+    o	Model fitting of the form
+
+		 lm(y~., data=df)
+		glm(y~., data=df)
+
+	will now work.	The RHS of the model will consist of an
+	additive model containing all (non-response) variables in the
+	given data frame.
+
+    o	The following type of assignment to data frame subsets
+
+		z <- data.frame(x=rnorm(10),y=rnorm(10),z=rnorm(10))
+		z[,1:2] <- matrix(1:20,nc=2)
+
+	was producing incorrect results.  The solution was to wrap
+	an implicit "as.data.frame" around the RHS.
+
+    o	"[.data.frame" no longer has a default drop=TRUE argument.
+	This means that subsetting a data frame with "[" will always
+	yield a data frame.
+
+    o	There was a swap of coordinates internally in "mtext" which
+	meant that labels were coming out in the wrong place.  Fixed.
+
+    o	Syntax errors in parse(text="...") would cause R to terminate
+	with a segmentation violation.	This no longer happens, although
+	the result is still not perfect (the parse() returns).
+	This will be fixed by a future parse rewrite.
+
+    o	rainbow, topo.colors, etc., now also work with n in {1,2};
+	don't return duplicate neighbor colors anymore.
+
+    o	legend has new `text.width' argument and now also works with
+	mathematical expressions as text.
+
+    o	hist() now works better, has a `plot = TRUE' argument, and returns
+	something useful.
+
+    o	barplot() improved for `names', now returns vector of midpoints.
+
+    o	lm(), lm.fit, lm.wfit (was `lm.w.fit'):	 Made more compatible.
+	Dealing with (close to) collinear situations is still not flexible
+	enough.
+
+    o	internal postscript() improved (missing lines in boxplot(.)).
+
+    o	Improvement to many (even most ?) documentation (.Rd) files.
+
+    o	Numerous other fixes of minor things ...
+
+
+
+		  CHANGES IN R VERSION 0.50
+
+WARNING!!!
+
+ o  A change in the way that "expressions" are implemented means that
+    saved data images which contain expressions will probably not
+    restore properly.
+
+NEW FEATURES
+
+ o  The installation of documentation has now been streamlined.
+    Many manual entries have been revised.
+
+ o  "expressions" are now implemented as a basic type rather than as
+    a class of object.	This change was made as move toward compatibility
+    with S and also to implement mathematical annotation in graphs.
+    For some examples of the latter, see ?text and ?title.
+
+ o  "eigen" can now handle complex and non-symmetric matrices.
+
+ o  Libraries are now attached by loading their code into newly created
+    environment frames on the search path rather than in with the general
+    system code.  This means that libraries can be unloaded as well as
+    loaded.  They can also have .First.lib and .Last.lib functions.
+    The variable .Libraries has been replaced by .library() but should not
+    be needed much anymore.
+
+ o  There is now an experimental function called "delay" which creates
+    a promise to evaluate an expression.  This provides direct access
+    to the lazy evaluation mechanism used by R.
+
+ o  >>>>  'make tests'	 allows to test--run all the help() examples.
+
+ o  New functions   matplot / matpoints / matlines.
+
+ o  cut has 2 new arguments. 'right = TRUE' gives intervals closed on the
+	right, open to the left (as S); 'right = FALSE' allows to reverse
+	this. The code for default label construction has been enhanced,
+	and can be controlled by the new argument 'dig.lab'.
+
+ o  legend(.) has 2 new arguments 'cex' (obvious) and 'merge = FALSE'.
+	-> ?legend.
+ o  deparse  has a 2nd argument allowing for a kind of line width.
+ o  There is now print.density (method).
+
+ o  many help(.) pages have been updated with working examples,
+	and several new ones have been created.
+
+ o  influence.measures() and lm.influence now allow to get at the usual
+    regression diagnostics.
+
+BUG FIXES
+
+ o  The "is.object" function has been with drawn.
+
+ o  A bug which prevented the "pictex" graphics driver from working
+    has been fixed.
+
+ o  Regression diagnostics obtained with "lm.influence" now work when
+    there are weights.	This means they should work for glms.
+
+ o  There was a problem in parsing files from statements which were
+    separated from following statements by ";" (e.g. data(iris); iris).
+    This is fixed.
+
+ o  Comments are handled better in functions.  The rule is that they
+    are shifted to just before their statements.  Comments after the
+    last statement of a function are lost.
+
+ o  It is now possible to perform complicated mutations of expressions.
+    For example
+	e <- quote(f(x=1,y=2))
+	names(e)[[2]] <- "a"
+    will change the x= argument tag into a=.  In the past this produced
+    odd error messages.
+
+ o  The length function now tries to return a "sensible" value for all
+    the built-in types.	 For example, symbols now have length 1.
+
+ o  "update" should now work in both "lm" and "glm" models.
+
+ o  The functions Re, Im, Mod, Arg and Conj will now accept real-valued
+    arguments and return the obvious results.
+
+ o  Minor graphics cleanup.
+
+ o  A fix for convergence problems in glm from Thomas Lumley included.
+
+ o  A new version of qt() should not take infinitely long to get an
+    answer in the large degrees if freedom case.  The underlying code
+    (Hill 1970, CACM) appears to be much faster and more accurate than
+    Splus.
+
+ o  A final Newton step has been added to give a final "polish" to
+    the quantiles produced by pnorm().	These should be close to full
+    accuracy now.
+
+ o  A bug in qbeta found by Martin Maechler has been fixed.  This should
+    speed up quantile computation for the F and Beta distributions.
+    Further improvements in qbeta(.) by MM.  No infinite loops anymore.
+
+ o  rainbow(.) now allows "start > end" indexing the "color circle".
+    topo.colors(n), terrain.colors(n), heat.colors(n) now also work for n=1,2.
+
+ o  ?"+" now works.
+
+ o  tapply has been fixed as indicated by T. Lumley.