[Rd] CRAN and R v2.2.1 for Windows

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12/21/2005 10:21 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> Thanks for the new updates in v2.2.1.
> 
> I just noticed a few "problems" on 
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/.
> 
> 1) The CHANGES and NEWS files for v2.2.1 does not include info on v2.2.1 
> but only details up until v2.2.0, cf. 
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/NEWS

Yes, we noticed that just after packaging; the patches will fix it.

> 2) The patched version is now denoted "beta" (files and installation 
> directory), which I believe is misleading since it is a patch of the 
> "stable" version.

That should be fixed soon.  The handling for betas and patch versions is 
different, and sometimes there's a bit of a delay in the switchover as 
things fail on one or two builds.

Duncan Murdoch