From ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de  Thu Nov  6 23:45:46 2014
From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 23:45:46 +0100
Subject: [Rd] r-release, r-oldrel
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On 06.11.2014 23:41, G?bor Cs?rdi wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Uwe Ligges
> <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> [...]
>>> quick question. How does one know which R versions r-release
>>
>>
>> The latest official release, i.e. currently R-3.1.2.
>
> Thanks!
>
> How does one know what is the latest official release? Is parsing the
> R homepage the best way to determine it?

I'd say yes.

> Or the latest tarball? Or can
> I use the latest R-x-y-z tag from the SVN repository?

I assume that works.

>
>>> and r-oldrel
>>
>>
>> If R-x.y.z is recent, then r-oldrel corresponds to the latest "y-1" version,
>> i.e. currently R-3.0.3.
>
> So this also means that when (say) R-3.0.2 was r-release, 2.15.3 was r-oldrel?

Right.

Best,
Uwe

> Thanks again,
> Gabor
>
>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges



[Rd] r-release, r-oldrel
Uwe Ligges