From richierocks at gmail.com  Mon Mar 23 14:55:40 2015
From: richierocks at gmail.com (Richard Cotton)
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:55:40 +0300
Subject: [Rd] Possible values for R version status
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Thanks for this.  You are right that it's a lowercase "a"; the
documentation on the R.Version help page is incorrect.  That describes
status as 'the status of the version (e.g., "Alpha")'.

On 23 March 2015 at 16:36, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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



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[Rd] Possible values for R version status
Richard Cotton