From murdoch.duncan at gmail.com  Mon Mar 23 14:36:58 2015
From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 09:36:58 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Possible values for R version status
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On 23/03/2015 9:17 AM, Richard Cotton wrote:
> Is there a complete list somewhere of the possible values for R's
> status, as returned by version$status?
>
> I know about these values:
> Stable: ""
> Devel: "Under development (unstable)"
> Patched: "Patched"
> Release candidate: "RC"
> Alpha: "Alpha"

I don't think we use "Alpha", I think it's lowercase.  There is also 
"beta".  You can see the list at 
http://developer.r-project.org/release-checklist.html, in the lines that 
describe the version being set.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] Possible values for R version status
Duncan Murdoch