On 19 Nov 2015, at 10:05, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> Mikko Korpela <mikko.korp...@aalto.fi> >>>>>> on Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:35:14 +0200 writes: > >> The NEWS for R-devel has the following item: >>> The previously included versions of zlib, bzip2, xz and PCRE have >>> been removed, so suitable external (usually system) versions are >>> required (see the ‘R Installation and Administration’ manual). > >> Therefore I believe the following information in >> 'src/library/base/man/regex.Rd' is no longer valid: > >>> If PCRE support was compiled from the sources within R, the PCRE >>> version is 8.36 as described here. > > Not quite. It is still *valid* : every statement about the > elements of the empty set are true, in the same sense that > > if (FALSE) > "something or other" > > is never invalid, but of course, that information should still > be removed because indeed, it is empty. Help pages are not intended to be just about the current version of R but also recent versions, and most builds of 3.2.x will meet the condition. However, as from 3.2.0 a user can find the version of PCRE in use by extSoftVersion, and I have added a comment about that, including for 3.2.3. > > Thank you Mikko! > (and excuse the completely unnecessary pickyness ;-) > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel