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is returned if the specified option is not set.  This simplifies

querying a value and checking whether it is

now warns if the requested encoding is not supported.

factors to be returned as character vectors rather than the

the variable to a factor (with a warning).

now returns a list containing the points that

consistency with other functions called by

optionally use continuity correction when not computing exact

p-values.  (The Kendall case is the wish of

now keeps track of line numbers during execution for code

reference is displayed by debugging functions such as

More functions now have an implicit (S4) generic definition.

documents what numeric-like properties its input need to have to

warning.  (Names are ignored in the default method, but could

have odd semantics for other methods, and do for the data.frame

zeros.  This change also renders levels construction in

documentation of S4 class slots, now does so in considerably more

cases.  The documentation of inherited slots (from superclasses)

now also checks S4 methods for code/documentation

always return NULL as their (invisible) value.  This change was

needed to address a reference counting bug without creating

performance penalties for some common use cases.

have been added to the tools package to provide support for

now returns a sparse Matrix, using package

which allows sparse matrices to be returned.

passes to the actual contrast function if that has a formal

ASCII code there because not all editors recognize BOMs.

now allows NAs to pass through (and be ignored).

is called on an S3 generic function then

the LHS and so preserves non-standard responses such as

by avoiding a copy if there are no names (following a

false, character strings with marked encodings are translated to

the current locale (as before) but if true they are written

used (by experts) to suppress the declaration of encodings.