New version of =dev-lang/R-4.4.0 was announced recently. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2024/000701.html Reproducible: Always
Please do keep in mind https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Zero-day_bump_requests for future.
Sorry, I was aware of the zero day request policy. I regularly request version bumps of R and typically wait, but given https://bugs.gentoo.org/930936 the security vulnerability and that I was going away for a few days broke the rule. Will respect it in future.