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<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2017/000623.html" target="_blank">R 3.4.3 has been released</a>, as announced by the R Core team today. As of this writing, only the source distribution (for those that build R themselves) is available, but binaries for Windows, Mac and Linux should appear on your local CRAN mirror within the next day or so.</p>
<p>This is primarily a bug-fix release. It fixes an issue with incorrect time zones on MacOS High Sierra, and some issues with handling Unicode characters. (Incidentally, representing international and special characters is something that R takes great care in handling properly. It's not an easy task: a 2003 essay by Joel Spolsky describes the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/" target="_blank">minefield that is character representation</a>, and not much has changed since then.) You can check out the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/" target="_blank">complete list of changes here</a>. Whatever your platform, R 3.4.3 should be backwards-compatible will other R versions in the R 3.4.x series, and so your scripts and packages should continue to function as they did before.</p>
<p>The codename for this release is &quot;Kite-Eating Tree&quot;, and as with all R codenames this is a references to a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1967/02/19" target="_blank"><em>classic Peanuts episode</em></a>. If you're interested in the source of other R release names, Lucy D'Agostino McGowan provides the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://livefreeordichotomize.com/2017/09/28/r-release-names/" target="_blank">Peanuts references for R release names</a> back to R 2.14.0.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://livefreeordichotomize.com/2017/09/28/r-release-names/" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Kite-eating-tree" title="Kite-eating-tree" src="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01b7c938cb54970b-800wi"></a></p>
<p>r-devel mailing list: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2017/000623.html" target="_blank">R 3.4.3 is released</a></p>
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