RStudio v0.94 — Release Notes

0.94.110 — October 3rd, 2011

Installation

• Fix Ubuntu 64-bit packaging issue that was introduced in 0.94.109

0.94.110 — October 3rd, 2011

Source Editor

• Fix Ubuntu 64-bit packaging issue that was introduced in 0.94.109

0.94.109 — October 3rd, 2011

Source Editor

• Fix intermittent problems with autoindent

0.94.106 — September 22nd, 2011

R 2.14

• Temporarily disable support for dev.hold / dev.flush (need to buffer flushes to reduce http round trips)

0.94.105 — September 12th, 2011

R 2.14

• Support for Graphics Engine v9 (dev.hold, dev.flush, and dev.capabilities)
• Parallel package compatibility (corrected problem with child process signal handling)
• Eliminate readLines warning (for incomplete last line) from startup and after source of active document

0.94.102 — August 22nd, 2011

Miscellaneous

• Enforce editor file size limits (1MB warning, 5MB absolute limit) in desktop mode
• Improved track-pad responsiveness for scrolling on OSX Lion
• Use short file name variant for R.home() on Windows
• Use privileged mode for PAM authentication on Ubuntu
• Correct escaping of apostrophes in settings files
• Enable select none button in package update dialog

0.94.92 — July 11th, 2011

Source Editor and Console

• Added Source with Echo command (Ctrl-Shift-Enter)
• Editor toolbar menu for specifying default source echo behavior
• Sourcing of saved files uses file's path rather than temporary file
• Change Run All shortcut to Ctrl-Shift+R and remove from toolbar
• All commands from multiline input are recalled by up-arrow
• Correctly handle spacing for ampersands within quotes
• Fix for misalignment of text with embedded tabs
• Correct indentation behavior when in hard tab mode

Sweave

• Improved detection of TeX installation on OS X
• Prevent activation of external console window on Windows

Miscellaneous

• Correct state for dev.interactive even when graphics device not yet loaded
• Delegate to shell for unknown file types in desktop mode
• Eliminate warning messages resulting from display of bquote assignments in workspace
• Skip reading of .DS_Store files in source database directory
• Prevent crash when timestamp is called from .Rprofile on Windows

0.94.82 — June 15th, 2011

Source Editor and Console

• Run code:
  • Run all lines in source file
  • Run to current line
  • Run from current line
  • Redefine current function
  • Re-run previous region
  • Code is now run line-by-line in the console
• Brace, paren, and quote matching
• Improved cursor placement after newlines
• Support for regex find and replace
• Optional syntax highlighting for console input
• Press F1 for help on current selection
• Function navigation / jump to function
• Column and line number display
• Manually set/switch document type
• New themes: Solarized and Solarized Dark

Plots

• Improved image export:
  • Formats: PNG, JPEG, TIFF, SVG, BMP, Metafile, and Postscript
  • Dynamic resize with preview
  • Option to maintain aspect ratio when resizing
  • Copy to clipboard as bitmap or metafile
• Improved PDF export:
  • Specify custom sizes
  • Preview before exporting
• Remove individual plots from history
• Resizable plot zoom window

History

• History tab synced to loaded .Rhistory file
• New commands:
  • Load and save history
  • Remove individual items from history
  • Clear all history
• New options:
  • Load history from working directory or global history file
  • Save history always or only when saving .RData
  • Remove duplicate entries in history
• Shortcut keys for inserting into console or source

Packages

• Check for package updates
• Filter displayed packages
• Install multiple packages
• Remove packages
• New options:
  • Install from repository or local archive file
  • Target library
  • Install dependencies

Miscellaneous

• Find text within help topic
• Sort file listing by name, type, size, or modified
• Set working directory based on source file, files pane, or browsed for directory.
• Console titlebar button to view current working directory in files pane
• Source file menu command
• Replace space and dash with dot (.) in import dataset generated variable names
• Add decimal separator preference for import dataset
• Added .tar.gz (Linux) and .zip (Windows) distributions for non-admin installs
• Read /etc/paths.d on OS X to ensure RStudio has the same path as terminal sessions do
• Added manifest to rsession.exe to prevent unwanted program files and registry virtualization

Server

• Break PAM auth into its own binary for improved compatibility with 3rd party PAM authorization modules.
• Ensure that AppArmor profile is enforced even after reboot
• Ability to add custom LD library path for all sessions
• Improved R discovery:
  • Use which R then fallback to scanning for R script
  • Run R discovery unconfined then switch into restricted profile
• Default to uncompressed save.image output if the administrator or user hasn't specified their own options (improved suspend/resume performance)
• Ensure all running sessions are automatically updated during server version upgrade
• Added verify-installation command to rstudio-server utility for easily capturing configuration and startup related errors

Bug Fixes

• Undo to unedited state clears now dirty bit
• Extract function now captures free variables used on lhs
• Selected variable highlight now visible in all themes
• Syncing to source file updates made outside of RStudio now happens immediately at startup and does not cause a scroll to the bottom of the document.
• Fixed various issues related to copying and pasting into word processors
• Fixed incorrect syntax highlighting issues in .Rd files
• Make sure font size for printed source files matches current editor setting
• Eliminate conflict with Ctrl+F shortcut key on OS X
• Zoomed Google Chrome browser no longer causes cursor position to be off
• Don't prevent opening of unknown file types in the editor

• Fixed sporadic missing underscores (and other bottom clipping of text) in console
• Make sure console history is never displayed offscreen
• Page Up and Page Down now work properly in the console
• Substantially improved console performance for both rapid output and large quantities of output

• Install successfully on Windows with special characters in home directory name
• make install more tolerant of configurations where it can't write into /usr/share
• Eliminate spurious stderr output in forked children of multicore package
• Ensure that file modified times always update in the files pane after a save
• Always default to installing packages into first writeable path of .libPaths()
• Ensure that LaTeX log files are always preserved after compilePdf
• Fix conflicts with zap function from epicalc package
• Eliminate shortcut key conflicts with Ubuntu desktop workspace switching shortcuts
• Always prompt when attempting to save files of the same name
• Maximized main window now properly restored when reopening RStudio
• PAM authorization works correctly even if account has password expiration warning
• Correct display of manipulate panel when Plots pane is on the left

Previous Release Notes

• RStudio v0.93 — April 11th, 2011