From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Oct  5 19:04:41 2011
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 18:04:41 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] R-devel (2.14 alpha) Windows binary
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An automated build (done on winbuilder) will take a few days: people 
are too busy this week.

For the time being, I have put a current Windows installer for R 
2.14.0 alpha at
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/R-2.14.0alpha-win.exe
I am unlikely to update it often (and I too am busy this week).

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>
>> I suspect that the Windows build system just hasn't caught on to the short 
>> time between 2.13.2 and the start of run-in for 2.14.0. I think the usual 
>> logic is that pre-releases of the next version replace the patch releases 
>> of the old one (by definition, there shouldn't be updates to 2.13.2 
>> anyway).
>
> Correct, but it also does not have a 'R 2.15.0 devel' (not that there is such 
> a thing: R-devel does not have a version number). In fact it has
>
> ncftp /pub/R/bin/windows/base > ls -l
> ...
> -rw-rw-r--    1 0        1001     40213201 Sep 30 19:18 R-2.13.2-win.exe
> -rw-rw-r--    1 0        1001     41018043 Oct  4 11:49 
> R-2.13.2patched-win.exe
> -rw-rw-r--    1 0        1001     47707488 Oct  2 10:45 R-2.14.0dev-win.exe
> ...
>
> so R-2.14.0dev-win.exe would be a pretty good surrogate for R 2.14.0 alpha 
> until that is available.
>
>> 
>> -pd
>> 
>> On Oct 5, 2011, at 00:46 , Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> This question popped up on the bioc-devel list, I'm forwarding it here.
>>> 
>>> I know that sources for R-2.14 alpha can be found here:
>>> 
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/
>>> 
>>> But the OP (below) is asking about Windows binaries.
>>> 
>>> Dan
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Stefan McKinnon H?j-Edwards <Stefan.Hoj-Edwards at agrsci.dk>
>>> Date: 2011/10/4
>>> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Bioc 2.9 New Package submissions. The
>>> October deadlines are fast approaching.
>>> To: "bioc-devel at r-project.org" <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> According to the BioC release plan, we should use R-2.14.0 devel-alpha
>>> to check our packages.
>>> But on cran, we can either choose R 2.13.2
>>> (http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/) or R 2.15.0 devel
>>> (http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html). Am I missing
>>> something? And will it again be possible to get the binaries for
>>> Windows of the 2.14.0 devel-alpha?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Kind regards
>>> Stefan McKinnon H?j-Edwards              Dept. of Molecular Biology and 
>>> Genetics
>>> Ph.D. Fellow                             Aarhus University
>>>                                         Blichers All? 20, Postboks 50
>>>                                         DK-8830 Tjele
>>> Tel.: +45 8715 7969                      Tel.: +45 8715 6000
>>> Email: Stefan.Hoj-Edwards at agrsci.dk      Web: www.agrsci.dk
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
>>> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:36:15 -0700
>>> From: Marc Carlson <mcarlson at fhcrc.org>
>>> To: bioc-devel at r-project.org
>>> Subject: [Bioc-devel] Bioc 2.9 New Package submissions. The October
>>>        deadlines are fast approaching.
>>> Message-ID: <4E8A46EF.3030007 at fhcrc.org>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>> 
>>> Dear Bioconductor developers,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This announcement is for package authors who are in the process of
>>> developing packages for inclusion in the upcoming 2.9 release of
>>> Bioconductor in October.
>>> 
>>> The deadline to make a submission for this release is going to be
>>> October 10th, 2011. Packages submitted after the deadline will probably
>>> not provide us with sufficient time for inclusion in this release.
>>> Earlier submissions are encouraged as it provides more time to correct
>>> issues raised during the review process and probably has an improved
>>> chance of making it into the release.
>>> 
>>> If you do not have your package ready in time for this deadline, your
>>> package will still be included in our development branch of Bioconductor
>>> and will be scheduled for inclusion in the subsequent release version of
>>> Bioconductor.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Other important deadlines to consider are listed on our Release
>>> schedule. If you have packages in the repository (and most of you do),
>>> it is probably a good idea to follow the following link and see the
>>> other deadlines that are approaching.
>>> 
>>> http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/release-schedule/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sincerely,
>>> 
>>>
>>>   The Biocore Team
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list
>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
>>> 
>>> ______________________________________________
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>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>> 
>> -- 
>> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
>> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
>> Phone: (+45)38153501
>> Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
>> 
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>> 
>
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
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[Rd] R-devel (2.14 alpha) Windows binary
Prof Brian Ripley