MRO-3.2.3+1

This re-release of Microsoft R Open 3.2.3 is based on R-3.2.3 and adds the performance enhancements from the Intel MKL, an optional additional install.

Release Highlights

• Based on the R-3.2.3 engine
• Revolution R Open is now known as Microsoft R Open.
• Adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 and Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11)
• Uses the 2016-01-01 static MRAN snapshot as the CRAN mirror

Change History Rollup

• v3.2.2...v3.2.3+1

Fixed Issues

• RGui crashes when typing characters beyond width of resized window with MRO 3.2.3 on Windows
• No shell R executable is being created on OS X 10.11
• tcltk support missing from MRO 3.2.3 on openSUSE
• tcltk and others missing during build from CentOS/RHEL 7 (fixed in v3.2.3)

Known Issues

• devtools::install_github may fail with the error "error in running command" on Ubuntu and SUSE. To work around this issue, set options(unzip = 'internal') before calling install_github. (See #37 and r-lib/devtools#406 )
• For Microsoft R Open on openSUSE: in order to install packages on this platform, you must manually install the package gcc-c++ if not already installed. See installation instructions for more details.

Binary Downloads

• Visit http://mran.microsoft.com/ to download the binary distribution for this release.