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R 3.0.0 Released

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Release Notes - http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/src/base/NEWS.html

Thanks. I don't know why open source projects tend to make it so difficult to find out what the new features are in a major release.

I don't think that applies in this case does it? On the front page for all of the mirrors it says: "The latest release (2013-04-03, Masked Marvel): [R-3.0.0.tar.gz], read [what's new] in the latest version." With the [] as links to the release and release notes.

That's interesting: for me, the homepage just says "R version 3.0.0 (Masked Marvel) has been released on 2013-04-03." without any links. There's a What's New link in the sidebar, but it just takes me to mailing list archives.

While it initially looks like all that page, at the very bottom is a "Changes in R" section that has a link to the NEWS file.

You seem to be using http://cran.r-project.org (which is what's actually mirrored) and not the linked webpage.

Correct, hence "all of the mirrors" :)

But it is a good point that it's surprising not to have Project landing page.

There was a mailing list discussion on it a while back, can't remember what the maintainers said was their reason for this.

Interesting -- there is no such link in the page that I land on.

nothing for me too

Congrats, R is probably the most interesting language I tried in some time :)

And I really do dig the '95 retro chic of the site.

Here's source code for the release on GitHub: https://github.com/SurajGupta/r-source

The R team maintains an SVN repo, but I prefer browsing source on GitHub

Seems to compile ok (under my home drive) on Scientific Linux 5.9 using the instructions at

http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.h...

Passes all the supplied tests and my simple scripts run just as they did on 2.13.

I had to get the source tar from a US mirror as the UK ones have not sync'ed yet.

PDF manual did not build as the version of LaTeX on EL 5.9 is fairly ancient. ggplot2 installs fine though.

And I wished the R main website would get a face-lift as well :)

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