signals (since the numeric values are OS-dependent).

fields if needed, and to auto-generate package

matched or non-matched substrings from match data obtained by

help(package = "pkg_name", help_type = "HTML")

gives HTML help on the package rather than text help.  (This gives

direct access to the HTML version of the package manual shown

allow approximate regular expression matching, and a

argument to specify possibly different integer match costs for

argument to indicate fields where whitespace

exist.  (Patch submitted by Seth Schommer.)

matches as well as all substrings corresponding to parenthesized

subexpressions of the given regular expression.

confusion from the misuse of the matrix method (such as

now displays reference class objects and their

fields, rather than treating them as classical S4 classes.

finding the positions of approximate string matches as well as all

substrings corresponding to parenthesized subexpressions of the

additional command-line options to the non-default methods using

perhaps a matrix or data frame) writes its temporary file with

so editors which select their mode based on

the extension will select a suitable mode.

device makes use of Flate compression: this

is controlled by the new logical argument

Analogous changes have been made on Windows, so all built-in

There are several new built-in font mappings for

updates the screen less frequently: see its help page.

distinguish its states.  The normal cursor is an arrow (rather

than a crosshair); the crosshair is used when the locator is in

use, and a watch cursor is shown when plotting computations are

being done.  (These are the standard names for X11 cursors: how

they are actually displayed depends on the window manager.)

use with graphics devices with buffering.  These are used for most

of the high-level graphics functions such as

that the plot is only displayed when the page is complete.

with buffering (which are the default on-screen devices).

snapshots of image-based devices (a superset of the functionality

it no longer switches to and from the gray