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R overview
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.
R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity.
One of R's strengths is the ease with which well-designed publication-quality plots can be produced, including mathematical symbols and formulae where needed. Great care has been taken over the defaults for the minor design choices in graphics, but the user retains full control.
What's new in version 4.6.0
Significant User-Visible Changes
- The R citation now provides a DOI (10.32614/R.manuals): please update your bibliographies accordingly.
- The default C++ standard has been changed to C++20 where available (which it is on all known platforms from 2021 on): if not C++17 is used if available otherwise C++ is not supported (as before). (GCC 16 has also switched to C++20 as its default.) Packages can request C++17 if essential.
- The Sweave driver Rtangle no longer puts empty lines at the end of tangled scripts.
New Features
- The default AIC and BIC methods now check whether the methods namespace is loaded rather than stats4. They still use stats4::logLik (and stats4::nobs), but packages no longer need to load stats4 explicitly.
- confint.default() now also works on S4 objects, as long as suitable coef() and vcov() methods exist.
- binomial(identity) and quasibinomial(identity) now work without having to quote the argument.
- str() now shows more via format() for external pointers.
- terms(
, specials = *) now treats non-syntactic specials more gracefully, thanks to Mikael Jagan's PR#18568. - help.start() gets a lib.loc option and its default for make.packages.html() is enhanced to allow, e.g., fast access to .Library when that contains only base and recommended packages.
- In *.Rd help files, the \linkS4class macro now also works for links to other packages via \linkS4class[
]{ }, much nicer than the "workaround"
Full list of changes available here
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Version 4.6.0
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Jun 2, 2023
Version: 4.2.3
4.3.0 is out
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html
Apr 25, 2020
Version: 3.6.3
Version 4.0.0 released today. Release notes here
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2020/000653.html
