[Rd] Has the changelog for R-devel and R-patched moved?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 19:54:29 CEST 2015


On 01/09/2015 11:05 AM, Avraham Adler wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:57 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 01 Sep 2015, at 16:21 , Avraham Adler <avraham.adler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> There used to be changelog of sorts for R-devel [1] and R-release [2].
>>> Neither have been updated since 2015-07-24. Have these moved
>>> elsewhere, or are they no longer being updated?
>>
>> Presumably, something that used to happen daily on the hosting machine (or elsewhere) isn't happening any more....
>>
>> If the functionality is easily restored, it will probably be restored soon; if not, probably somewhat later.
>>
>> Meanwhile, the link to the latest NEWS file (one line above!) appears to be up-to-yesterday's date.
>>
>> -pd
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Avi
>>>
>>> [1] <http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS>
>>> [2] <http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-3-2-branch/NEWS>
>>>
>>> ______________________________________________
>>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>>
>> --
>> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
>> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
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>>
> 
> Yes, understood. The reason the changlog is prefereable is that the
> NEWS is cumulative, and does not indicate changes between
> R-patched_2015-08-26 and R-patched_2015-08-27. Whereas more
> information can be gleaned from the changelog entries.
> 
> 
> Obviously, this is of very low priority, and if the server refuses to
> acknowledge Dr. Murdoch's well-placed steel-toe reminders, getting it
> restarted should be deferred as long as is necessary. 8-)

Nobody ignores my steel-toe boots ;-). It's going again.

Duncan Murdoch



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