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R-0.99.0 bugfixes available

1 message · Peter Dalgaard

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A couple of bugs turned up immediately after the release, one of them
causing nasty memory corruption when strsplit() was used.

Therefore, a set of patches has been supplied on

ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/R/src/base/R-0.99.0-fixes.gz  

and the rest of CRAN should soon follow. The recipe for patching is
(GNU patch assumed)

gunzip -dc R-0.99.0-fixes.gz | patch -p 1

For those with broken patch programs or fast connections, there is
also a patched distribution in

ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/R/src/base/R-0.99.0a.tgz


Files patched:

uncmin.c --> demo(nlm) bug
character.c --> strsplit/devPS memory corruption
printutils.c --> va_list trouble
devGTK.c --> gnome/plotmath fix 
edit.R --> couldn't edit character vectors