From hpages at fhcrc.org  Sun Aug  5 03:49:49 2012
From: hpages at fhcrc.org (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9_Pag=E8s?=)
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:49:49 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Interaction between callNextMethod() and selectMethod()
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On 08/03/2012 11:44 PM, peter dalgaard wrote:
>
> On Aug 4, 2012, at 01:24 , Herv? Pag?s wrote:
>
>> BTW, it's funny that the VERSION file in the R source tree says:
>>
>>   hpages at latitude:~/src/R-2.16.r59963$ cat VERSION
>>   2.16.0 Under development (unstable)
>>   ^^^^^^
>
> What's funny about that? We no longer display the number on startup and at some point we may not even use it for an actual release, but there needs to be a number to test "R >= 2.14.0"-style dependencies and such.
>

What's funny is that even if we try to pretend that the version
number doesn't matter, it actually does matter. Not only for
"R >= 2.14.0"-style dependencies and such, but also for human communication:

- Can't install that package!
- Works for me. What version of R are you using?
- "Unsuffered Consequences"
- I'm using "Roasted Marshmallows", you should upgrade to
   that one.
- I'm confused I thought I was running the latest.
- No "Roasted Marshmallows" is the latest.
- Are you sure? How do you know?

etc, etc...

It reminds me of Mozilla plans to hide Firefox version:

   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678775

AFAIK they finally abandoned it :-)

H.

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Herv? Pag?s

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[Rd] Interaction between callNextMethod() and selectMethod()
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