On July 5, the R Core Group released the source code for the latest update to R, R 3.6.1, and binaries are now available to download for Windows, Linux and Mac from your local CRAN mirror.
R 3.6.1 is a minor update to R that fixes a few bugs. As usual with a minor release, this version is backwards-compatible with R 3.6.0 and remains compatible with your installed packages. Nonetheless, an upgrade is recommended to address issues including:
- A fix for "lock errors" when attempting to re-install packages on Windows
- Efficiency improvements and other fixes when using "quasi" links with Generalized Linear Models
- Fixed axis labels for boxplots
- writeClipboard on Windows now supports Unicode, so you can copy text with special characters from R for pasting
See the release notes for the complete list.
By long tradition the code name for this release, "Action of the Toes", is likely a reference to the Peanuts comic. If you know specifically which one, let us know in the comments!
R-announce mailing list: R 3.6.1 is released
March 22, 1971: https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1971/03/22 - Snoopy says that the difference between his second-day-of-spring dance and other dances is "all in the action of the toes".
Posted by: Michael Lugo | July 10, 2019 at 08:06
Looks like the Peanuts ref is March 22, 1971.
Very fitting for a minor update:
This is my "second day of Spring dance"
It differs slightly from my other dances..
The difference, of course, is very subtle...
It's all in the action of the toes...
Posted by: Nick | July 12, 2019 at 23:54