From ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de  Fri May  3 20:04:46 2013
From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 20:04:46 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Package update for old version of R
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On 03.05.2013 16:47, peter dalgaard wrote:
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> On May 3, 2013, at 14:55 , Eilidh Troup wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Is is possible to create a release of a package against an older version of R? I would like to release a new version of the package I maintain, but have some errors when I test it against R 3.0.0. Would CRAN accept a new release that works with R 2.15.3 but not R 3.0.0?
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> I strongly doubt it. By the CRAN logic, it would move immediately to the Archived folder, which is a fairly obscure place to have your users go look...

Right.
You could try a version that works both under R-oldrelease and 
R-release/R-devel which would be accepted, of course.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

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> They're usually helpful in getting you to fix the errors, though.
>
> -p
>



[Rd] Package update for old version of R
Uwe Ligges