now adds necessary escape characters so that

printing and re-parsing an Rd object should produce an

was incorrectly handling multiple backslashes in

code strings, converting 4n+3 backslashes to 2n+1 instead

possibly compressed.  This uses either an external

the amount of effort put into compression when writing.

-compressed files.  (This can also read files

looks at the file header and so can now also

compression (which will be slower, but can give substantially

can read such saves (but only as from this version of

tar archives.  Precisely how wide depends on the capabilities of

lazy-loading data.  New possibilities are

compression at the expense of slower installation times, and

on large datasets at the expense of much longer installation

times.  (The latter is used for the recommended packages: it is

will automagically detect compressed files (from

that compressed files can be specified by file name (rather than

can handle compressed text files with extensions

Bundles of packages are deprecated.  See

for the steps needed to unbundle a bundle.

a precise POSIX standard for them, but it is not what recent RE

engines implement, and it seems that in almost all cases package

cairo >= 1.2 is now required (1.2.0 was released in July 2006)

for cairo-based graphics devices (which remain optional).

C99 support for MBCS is now required, and configure option

detecting compressed archives is useful for

There is some makefile support for adding/updating translations

Assigning an extra 0-length column to a data frame by

s) or fails.  (It used to give a corrupt data

avoids an error during evaluation in the case

not usually work as other code attempted to ensure that non-zero

group and a residual group.  It now formats all columns except

group column-by-column).  The main effect will be see in the

that some embedded applications on Windows no longer crash on

failed to take the encoding of character

strings into account, so identical byte patterns are not

necessarily identical strings, and similarly Latin-1 and UTF-8

versions of the same string differ in byte pattern.