R_devs_news

The ‘R_ObjectTable’ type definitions formally in ‘R_ext/Callbacks.h’ are now available in the new header file ‘R_ext/ObjectTable.h’. This new header file should be used in packages instead of ‘R_ext/Callbacks.h’.
https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2026/03/25

‘package.skeleton()’ now invisibly returns the path of the created directory, similar to ‘prompt()’ et al., and allows creating blank skeletons without any R objects.
https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2026/03/09

‘x %notin% table’ newly in ‘base’ is an idiom for ‘!(x %in% table)’ and provided almost entirely for convenience and code readability, from an R-devel suggestion, after many years of private definitions mostly hidden in packages, including in R's ‘tools’ package.
https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2025/12/05

‘R CMD check’ ‘NOTE’s on the use of these non-API entry points have been upgraded to ‘WARNING’s in preparation for removing declarations and, where possible, hiding these entry points: ‘R_nchar’, ‘VECTOR_PTR’, ‘R_tryWrap’, ‘Rf_NonNullStringMatch’, ‘Rf_isValidString’ ‘Rf_GetOption’, ‘SET_FRAME’, ‘SET_HASHTAB’, ‘SET_ENCLOS’, ‘STDVEC_DATAPTR’, ‘SET_S4_OBJECT’, ‘UNSET_S4_OBJECT’, ‘SET_NAMED’, ‘R_lsInternal’, ‘Rf_lazy_duplicate’, ‘EXTPTR_PROT’, ‘EXTPTR_PTR’, ‘EXTPTR_TAG’,...
https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2025/11/12

The deprecated macros ‘CHARACTER_DATA’ and ‘CHARACTER_POINTER’ now return ‘const’ pointers since using writable pointers in packages is not safe.
https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2025/11/12

CHANGES IN R-devel NEW FEATURES:
New datasets ‘penguins’ and ‘penguins_raw’ thanks to Ella Kaye, Heather Turner, and Kristen Gorman.
https://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2025/02/22