Plots which are known to use only black/white/transparent can

there is now slightly more advantage in doing so).

2.13.0 of uncalibrated RGB, which under some circumstances can be

rendered faster by a viewer, and the files will be smaller (by

of the sRGB colorspace in the output file for the colormodels

greyscale raster images (and not RGB) when

in the default sRGB colorspace outputs many

fewer changes of colorspace, which may speed up rendering in some

the capabilities of the current device.  The initial set of

capabilities are support for semi-transparent colours, rendering

and capturing raster images, the locator and for interactive

The way the type of user-defined options is determined has

changed.  Previously they were all regarded as logical: now the

type is determined by the value given at first use.

The allowed values of logical options are now precisely

The preferred location for vignette sources is now the

will now re-build vignettes in directory

(etc) files and the corresponding PDFs to

option to select the Sweave driver: the default is equivalent to

connection.  This is convenient for scripting using something like

R CMD Stangle --options='output="stdout"' foo.Rnw > foo2.R

whether PDF figures are generated using Flate compression (they

produce a PDF version of the processed Sweave document.

It is no longer allowed to have two vignettes with the

(Previously one vignette hid the other in the

a temporary filename to include a specified extension.

).  (Suggestion of Greg Snow.  Note that

as all packages are lazy-loaded, this is now only relevant at

installation (since all packages are now lazy-loaded).  This can

be controlled on a per-package basis by the optional field

time, so all packages will be installed with

namespaces.  A consequence of this is that

it will be run as the attach hook (unless the package is one of a

list of known exceptions, when it will be run as the load hook).

A warning is given if test-loading a package changes a

locked binding in a package other than itself.  It is likely that