been restored: they can be overridden by the command-line options

On Windows, the device name for bitmap devices as reported

name.   This is for consistency with other platforms and was

still uses the file name: the exact form is

done at the beginning of the session if not already set.

a function that returns the breakpoints to be used (previously it

could only return the suggested number of breakpoints).

clarifications, especially as to which variants of

is intended and how to apply them to packages.

This section applies only to 64-bit platforms.

There is support for vectors longer than

elements.  This applies to raw, logical, integer, double,

complex and character vectors, as well as lists.  (Elements of

Most operations which can sensibly be done with long vectors

.  Most of these are because they explicitly work

) or because other limits (e.g., of character strings

or matrix dimensions) would be exceeded or the operations would be

replacement function with a double value.

Most aspects of indexing are available.  Generally

double-valued indices can be used to access elements beyond

There is some support for matrices and arrays with each

elements more than that.  Only some aspects of matrix algebra work

for such matrices, often taking a very long time.  In other cases

the underlying Fortran code has an unstated restriction (as was

can produce dissimilarity objects for more

to allow long vectors to be supported (now or in

the future).  Regrettably several packages had copied the non-API

inputs.  This is a precaution as it is very unlikely that existing

code will have been written to handle long vectors (and the

long vectors (slowly except for radix sorting).

can do uniform sampling from a long vector.

entry points, which is more efficient as the address is provided

by the loader once only when the package is loaded.

Since these entry points are always accessed by the

points they do not need to be in the load table which can be

substantially smaller and hence searched faster.  This does mean

may no longer work -- but they were never