From e896626b6fc816d29d729066d7c851880be3e561 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ripley Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:23:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] tweaks git-svn-id: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk@84753 00db46b3-68df-0310-9c12-caf00c1e9a41 --- doc/NEWS.Rd | 27 +++++++++++++-------------- doc/manual/R-exts.texi | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/NEWS.Rd b/doc/NEWS.Rd index 02f80567f92..dbeba07d5a6 100644 --- a/doc/NEWS.Rd +++ b/doc/NEWS.Rd @@ -17,18 +17,17 @@ } } - \subsection{NEW FEATURES}{ \itemize{ - + \subsection{NEW FEATURES}{ + \itemize{ \item The \code{confint()} methods for \code{"glm"} and - \code{"nls"} objects are now in the \pkg{stats} - package. Previously, they were stubs that called versions in - \pkg{MASS}. The original versions are still in \pkg{MASS} and can - be called using an explicit namespace qualifier, but the \pkg{MASS} - namespace is no longer autoloaded if you invoke (say) - \code{confint(glmfit)}. Similarly, \code{profile.glm()}, - \code{plot.profile()}, and \code{pairs.profile()} are now in - \pkg{stats}. (\code{profile.nls()} and \code{plot.profile.nls()} - were in \code{stats} already.) + \code{"nls"} objects have been copied to the \pkg{stats} + package. Previously, they were stubs which called versions in + package \pkg{MASS}. The \pkg{MASS} namespace is no longer loaded + if you invoke (say) \code{confint(glmfit)}. Further, the + \code{"glm"} method for \code{profile()} and the \code{plot()} + and \code{pairs()} mesthods for class \code{"profile"} have been + copied from \pkg{MASS} to \pkg{stats}. (\code{profile.nls()} and + \code{plot.profile.nls()} were already in \code{stats}.) \item The \code{confint()} and \code{profile} methods for \code{"glm"} objects have gained a possibility to do profiling @@ -59,7 +58,7 @@ restrict to smaller values). \item \R on Windows (since Windows 10 2004) now uses the new Segment - Heap allocator. This may improve performance of some memory intensive + Heap allocator. This may improve performance of some memory-intensive applications. \item When \R packages are built, typically by \command{R CMD build }, @@ -93,7 +92,7 @@ \item There is some support for building with Intel's LLVM-based compilers on \samp{x86_64} Linux, such as (C) \command{icx}, (C++) - \command{ipcx} and (Fortran) \command{ifx} from oneAPI 2023.1.0. + \command{ipcx} and (Fortran) \command{ifx} from oneAPI 2023.x.0. } } @@ -163,7 +162,7 @@ GraphApp has been fixed (\PR{13870}). \item \code{density()} more consistently computes grid values for the - FFT based convolution, following Robert Schlicht's analysis and + FFT-based convolution, following Robert Schlicht's analysis and proposal in \PR{18337}, correcting density values typically by a factor of about 0.999. Optional \code{old.coords=TRUE} provides back compatibility. diff --git a/doc/manual/R-exts.texi b/doc/manual/R-exts.texi index b82a4e051e1..f6a0a3e536e 100644 --- a/doc/manual/R-exts.texi +++ b/doc/manual/R-exts.texi @@ -5348,9 +5348,9 @@ does not mention any options, and what calling it without options does is platform-dependent. Stripping a @file{.so} file could even prevent it being dynamically loaded into @R{} on an untested platform. -@command{ld -S} invokes @command{strip --strip-debug} on GNU -@command{ld} but is not portable: in particular on Solaris it did -something completely different and took an argument. +@command{ld -S} invokes @command{strip --strip-debug} for GNU +@command{ld} (and similarly on macOS) but is not portable: in particular +on Solaris it did something completely different and took an argument. @item Some people have a need to set a locale. Locale names are not portable,