From mark.vanderloo at gmail.com  Mon Mar 23 14:44:51 2015
From: mark.vanderloo at gmail.com (Mark van der Loo)
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:44:51 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Possible values for R version status
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In the R installation and administration manual[*] I see at least mentioned

  The alpha, beta and RC versions of an upcoming x.y.0 release are
available [...]

so 'beta' seems to be an option unless it is only  used informally there.

Mark

[*] http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Using-Subversion-and-rsync


On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Richard Cotton <richierocks at gmail.com> 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"
>
> Are there any others that I've missed?
>
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[Rd] Possible values for R version status
Mark van der Loo