{"id":1535,"date":"2008-02-24T21:35:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T21:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/24\/r-262-is-released\/"},"modified":"2008-02-24T21:35:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T21:35:46","slug":"r-262-is-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/r-262-is-released\/","title":{"rendered":"R 2.6.2 is released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a big deal &#8230; it is mainly a bug-busting maintenance release with a few new features (listed below). I mention it, however, to remind you that R exists.R is in my view the most versatile and powerful statistical system available.  Many people say it has a steep learning curve, but I think this is because it does not have a commonly used graphical user interface.  In fact, if you are doing serious statistics, R is not harder to learn than any other professional system.<!--more-->New Features in this release include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;data.frame&#8221; and &#8220;factor&#8221; methods for [[ now support the &#8216;exact&#8217; argument introduced in 2.6.0.<\/li>\n<li>plot.lm() gains a new argument &#8216;cex.caption&#8217; to allow the size of the captions to be controlled.<\/li>\n<li>A series of changes make the CHARSXP cache introduced in 2.6.0 faster (and in some cases many times faster) in sessions with a large number (e.g. a million) of unique character strings, and also if there are many empty strings.<\/li>\n<li>embedFonts(), bitmap() and dev2bitmap() explicitly turn off auto-rotation in Ghostscript when generating PDF.<\/li>\n<li>The canonical architecture is no longer checked when loading packages using a non-empty sub-architecture, since it is possible to (e.g.) build packages for i386-pc-linux-gnu on both that architecture and on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.<\/li>\n<li>Deparsing will (if option warnIncomplete is set) warn on strings longer than the parser limit (8192 bytes).<\/li>\n<li>url() now uses the UserAgent header in http transactions in the same way as download.file() (making use of option &#8220;HTTPUserAgent&#8221;). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All the details, including bug fixes are <a href=\"http:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/src\/base\/NEWS\">here.<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/index.html\">And the The R Project for Statistical Computing site is here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a big deal &#8230; it is mainly a bug-busting maintenance release with a few new features (listed below). I mention it, however, to remind you that R exists.R is in my view the most versatile and powerful statistical system available. Many people say it has a steep learning curve, but I think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/r-262-is-released\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">R 2.6.2 is released<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[164,67,130,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-oL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}