[Rd] R 3.5.3 is released

The build system rolled up R-3.5.3.tar.gz (codename "Great Truth") this morning. The list below details the changes in this release. This is the wrap-up release for the 3.5.x series, so actually, not much has happened. You can get the source code from http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.

[Rd] Discrepancy between is.list() and is(x, "list")

Hi R-devel, I have noticed a discrepancy between is.list() and is(x, “list”), which I previously believed to be synonymous. On R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20): data(iris) is.list(iris)# TRUE is(iris, “list”) # FALSE Is this discrepancy intentional? Kind regards, Shian Su

[Rd] Exit status of Rscript when setting options(error=utils::recover)

Hello, I've noticed that Rscript didn't exit with error code if I set options error = utils::recover in .Rprofile . for example Rscript -e "asdf" Error: object 'asdf' not found No suitable frames for recover() echo $? 0 if didn't set options in .Rprofile, Rscript exit with error code 1, is this