Software update: R 4.0.5

R is a development environment and programming language for statistical and data analysis purposes. It was originally designed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman (hence the name R) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Programming in R is strongly object-oriented and the functionality can be extended via packages that are made available via cran, among others. The R-core team, which is in the business of further development today, has released version 4.0.5 with the title Shake and Throw. The changes in this release are as follows:

R 4.0.5 has been released

The build system rolled up R-4.0.5.tar.gz (codename “Shake and Throw”) this morning. This is a very minor update, mostly to fix the annoyance with East Asian character sets. The list below details the changes in this release.

You can get the source code from https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.0.5.tar.gz or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you . Binaries for various platforms will appear in due course.

For the R Core Team,
Peter Dalgaard

BUG FIXES:

• The change to the internal table in R 4.0.4 for iswprint has been reverted: it contained some errors in printability of ‘East Asian’ characters.
• For packages using LazyData, R CMD build ignored the –resave-data option and the BuildResaveData field of the DESCRIPTION file (in R versions 4.0.0 to 4.0.4).