[Rd] r-release, r-oldrel

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Uwe Ligges
<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
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>> quick question. How does one know which R versions r-release
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> The latest official release, i.e. currently R-3.1.2.

Thanks!

How does one know what is the latest official release? Is parsing the
R homepage the best way to determine it? Or the latest tarball? Or can
I use the latest R-x-y-z tag from the SVN repository?

>> and r-oldrel
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> If R-x.y.z is recent, then r-oldrel corresponds to the latest "y-1" version,
> i.e. currently R-3.0.3.

So this also means that when (say) R-3.0.2 was r-release, 2.15.3 was r-oldrel?

Thanks again,
Gabor

> Best,
> Uwe Ligges