[Rd] Testing before release (was: edit() doubles backslashes when keep.source=TRUE)

[Abby Spurdle]

This perhaps diverges from the intent of the thread, but...

I wanted to say I'm extremely grateful to the people who go the
through the bug reports.
It's an extremely important job (in the long run, particularly), but
perhaps not quite as "sexy"-sounding as other roles, and probably
under-valued.

So, thank you to the bug-fixers...

:)

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 2:54 AM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 15/05/2020 9:41 a.m., Martin Maechler wrote:
> [ deletions ]
> > <whining>
> >
> >      Why does nobody anymore  help R development by working with
> >      "R-devel", or at least then the alpha, beta and the "RC"
> >      (Release Candidate) versions that we release daily for about one
> >      month before the final release?
> >
> >      Notably a highly staffed enterprise such as Rstudio (viz the bug
> >      report 17800 above), but also others could really help by
> >      starting to use the "next version" of R on a routine basis ...
> >
> > <whining/
> I understand the whining, bugs that get released are embarrassing.  But
> when I read the NEWS, I can see that both the NEW FEATURES and BUG FIXES
> sections of x.y.0 releases tend to be much longer than the BUG FIXES
> sections in patch releases.  That seems to indicate that things are
> working reasonably well.
>
> For a really rough measure, just counting bullet points:
>
> R 4.0.0:  65 new features, 55 bug fixes
>
> R 3.6.3:  1 new feature, 7 bug fixes
>
> R 3.6.2:  2 new features, 21 bug fixes
>
> R 3.6.1:  0 new features, 16 bug fixes
>
> R 3.6.0:  72 new features, 62 bug fixes
>
> You can get these numbers programmatically:
>
> R4 <- news()
> table(R4$Category)
>
> R3 <- news(package = "R-3")
> table(R3$Version, R3$Category)
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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