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4.5.1

2 months ago
CHANGES IN R 4.5.1:

NEW FEATURES:

  • The internal method of unzip() now follows unzip 6.00 in how it
    handles extracted file paths which contain "../". With thanks to
    Ivan Krylov.

INSTALLATION:

  • Standalone nmath can be built with early-2025 versions of
    clang-based compilers such as LLVM clang 20, Apple clang 17 and
    Intel icx 2025.0.

  • Tcl/Tk 9 can be used to build package tcltk: this has become the
    default in some Linux distributions. N.B. several third-party
    packages currently require Tcl/Tk 8 or even 8.6 without declaring
    so.

BUG FIXES:

  • Java detection in javareconf could not detect libjvm.* in the
    zero variant of the JDK (PR#18884). All valid variants as of JDK
    24u are now supported.

  • factanal(.., rotation=*) now correctly updates rotmat, fixing
    PR#18886.

  • dnbinom(<large>, <muchlarger>, ..) now is 0 correctly, instead of
    NaN or Inf sometimes.

  • dbinom(<large>, n=Inf, ..) is 0 now correctly, instead of NaN
    which also fixes many dnbinom() cases, notably those mentioned in
    PR#16727 comment wch#5.

  • Fixing C level “binomial deviance” bd0() for extreme arguments
    (preventing under-/overflow) solves more PR#16727 cases and also
    prevents some full accuracy loss in such cases for dbinom(),
    dnbinom(), and via dbinom_raw() potentially dgeom(), dhyper(),
    dbeta(), and df().

  • signif(1.**e308, digits) no longer truncates unnecessarily (but
    still to prevent overflow to Inf), fixing PR#18889.

  • prettyNum(*, zero.print={>=1-char}, replace.zero=TRUE) now works
    as documented, thanks to Marttila Mikko and Ivan Krylov's
    messages on R-devel.

  • pbeta(x, a,b, ..) for very large a,b no longer returns NaN but
    the correct values (0 or 1, or their logs for log.p = TRUE).
    This improves Mathlib's C level bratio() and hence also
    pnbinom(), etc..

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