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Directory:  Accuracy

* PR# 751 *
Subject: BUG: polyroot()
From: "Li Dongfeng" <mavip1@inet.polyu.edu.hk>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:24:33 +0800
--Numerical instability. We may want a better algorithm!

Directory:  Add-ons

* PR# 812 *
Subject: segmentation fault in integrate
From: Achim Zeileis <zeileis@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:49:59 +0100
* PR# 781 *
Subject: syskern fails Rcmd check on Windows, gives incorrect information
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:12:47 +0000 (GMT)
--Partially fixed by dse_2000.12, but still uses "ls" and gives
--incorrect information
* PR# 496 *
From: bonneau@epi.roazhon.inra.fr (en148)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:57:13 +0100 (MET)
--base R has no est.variogram function.
--This appears to be a bug report on sgeostat.

Directory:  Analyses

* PR# 653 *
Subject: bug in spline()?
From: Ian White <imsw@holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:29:26 +0100 (BST)
--bug in spline: replace by interSpline in package spline?
--address problems are fixed

Directory:  Documentation

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Directory:  Graphics

* PR# 823 *
Subject: adjustment of expressions with mtext(..., las=2)
From: Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:12:43 +0100
* PR# 660 *
Subject: identify.default ignores any setting of cex.
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:23:39 +0100 (BST)
* PR# 202 *
Subject: persp box occlusion bug
From: wsi@gcal.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 15:02:03 +0200 (MET DST)
--The persp algorithm does not apply the occlusion rules to the frame, 
--which is always plotted first. 
--A bug, but not very simple to fix.
* PR# 750 *
Subject: abline() does not obey "xpd" (clipping rules)
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:27:11 +0100
* PR# 726 *
Subject: par(las=.)  gives wrong "adj" for mtext()
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:03:58 +0100
* PR# 791 *
Subject:  par(lab= *) / axis(*) bug 
From: maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:59:26 +0100
* PR# 776 *
Subject: strwidth does not take font into account
From: Martyn Plummer <plummer@iarc.fr>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:56:01 +0100 (CET)
* PR# 820 *
Subject: interaction.plot
From: "Mark M. Span" <span@psy.uva.nl>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:47:39 +0100
* PR# 816 *
Subject: dotplot: character size of labels
From: RINNER Heinrich <H.RINNER@TIROL.GV.AT>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:54:32 +0100
--Suggested fix will work (and spaces for labels will be fine), but there is a
--deeper problem:  mtext() ignores par(cex=.5) in general.  
--To see the problem try:  par(cex=.5); mtext("hi")
--I think the right fix is to change the argument list for mtext so that
--cex=par(cex) by default rather than cex=NA by default (plus corresponding
--internal changes to  do_mtext in plot.c).
--This needs to be done very carefully because (i) the change suggested above may
--have side-effects in many other pieces of interpreted code (ii) do_mtext ignores
--
--dd->gp.cexbase unlike, for example, do_plot_xy and anything to do with cexbase
--needs extreme care.

Directory:  In-Out

* PR# 814 *
Subject: Memory problem ?
From: Zoltan Barta <Z.Barta@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:54:16 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
--scan crashes R on Linux: a memory allocation problem, probably
--Uses n= or nlines= in scan will use less memory, and read.table does.

Directory:  Installation

* PR# 806 *
Subject: configure error on alpha
From: Richard Beare <Richard.Beare@cmis.CSIRO.AU>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:52:58 +1100

Directory:  Language

* PR# 813 *
Subject: match.call problem
From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 12 Jan 2001 17:46:15 +0100
* PR# 669 *
Subject: Bug(s) w/ rbind.data.frame(); fix also read.table(*, as.is = TRUE) ?
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:17:15 +0200
--status of AsIs columns
* PR# 412 *
Subject: anomalies with call objects
From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 06 Feb 2000 01:18:50 +0100
* PR# 408 *
Subject: convolution bug
From: wsimpson@gcal.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:17:36 +0100 (MET)

Directory:  Low-level

* PR# 505 *
Subject: interrupted save 
From: Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 12:16:50 -0800 (PST)

Directory:  Misc

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Directory:  Models

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Directory:  Startup

* PR# 486 *
Subject: Re: autoload error in profile {was anova-bug in R-version  1.0.0?}
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:32:43 +0100 (MET)
--workaround to the origin problem in 1.0.1
--New report: try does not work from the profile.

Directory:  System-specific

* PR# 822 *
Subject: Re: Sys.time dumps core at start-up
From: Peter Kleiweg <kleiweg@let.rug.nl>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:56:32 +0100 (CET)
--part of 821
* PR# 821 *
Subject: Sys.time dumps core at start-up
From: Peter Kleiweg <kleiweg@let.rug.nl>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:44:28 +0100 (CET)
--See also 822, which shows the segfault is in strftime.c.
--From other correspondence, this is on RH5.0: we can't
--reproduce it on RH6.2 or anywhere else.
* PR# 808 *
Subject: Time zone
From: Herve Morin <morin@mat.ulaval.ca>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 07:24:07 -0500
--This appears to be a complaint about a warning on a beta Mac version
--(but Macs are never mentioned!).  That version is incomplete.

Directory:  TooMuchAtOnce

* PR# 811 *
Subject: problem with strptime example (and mention of bug.report)
From: Stephen Eglen <stephen@anc.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:18:39 GMT
--1) On OSF4, strptime is deficient. Nothing we can do.
--
--2) On Windows NT, the strptime problems are (i) German locale, English dates,
--(ii) Windows system errors with unknown DST (it move times to DST).
--(i) now has another warning in the help file (there already was one).
--(ii) was already worked around for 1.2.1.
--
--3) bug.report() uses a mailer option that does not exist on OSF4.

Directory:  Windows

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Directory:  incoming

* PR# 824 *
Subject: trouble with netCDF 
From: jasont@indigoindustrial.co.nz
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:00:39 +1300