[R] R 3.2.4-revised is released

[Peter Dalgaard]

CRAN turned out to have structural issues with version numbers that are not of the x.y.z variety (some script break). I'm trying to find time to build a 3.2.5 just to fix this up. Of course all standard procedures are broken as 3.3.0 is now in progress, so several things now need to be done manually, which is "tedious and error-prone" as the saying goes.

-pd

On 13 Apr 2016, at 09:49 , Patrick Connolly <p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:

> My CRAN mirror still says this:
> 
>  The latest release (Thursday 2016-03-10, Very Secure Dishes)
>  R-3.2.4.tar.gz, read what's new in the latest version.
> 
> Should that not be updated?  Anyone who has not seen that post won't
> know to look further.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 16-Mar-2016 at 08:39PM +0000, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> 
> |> The 3.2.4 release had two annoyances which we would rather not have
> |> in an "ultra-stable" release, designed to hang around for the
> |> duration of the 3.3 series. One was a relatively minor Makefile
> |> issue affecting system using R's bundled lzma library. The other,
> |> rather more serious, affected printing and formatting of POSIXlt
> |> objects, which would unpredictably get the Daylight Savings Time
> |> wrong.
> 
> 
> |> Accordingly a revised version has been created.
> |> 
> |> You can get the source code from
> |> 
> |> http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.2.4-revised.tar.gz
> |> 
> |> or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you.
> |> 
> |> Maintainers of binary versions are requested to rebuild their binaries using the revised sources.
> |> 
> |> 
> |> For the R Core Team,
> |> 
> |> Peter Dalgaard
> |> 
> |> New md5 sums are
> |> 
> |> MD5 (NEWS) = b0b43ac87a5b5858098da065966551af
> |> MD5 (R-3/R-3.2.4-revised.tar.gz) = 552b0c8088bab08ca4188797b919a58f
> |> 
> |> The relevant NEWS file entry is
> |> 
> |>   BUG FIXES:
> |> 
> |>     • format.POSIXlt() behaved wrongly, e.g.,
> |>       format(as.POSIXlt(paste0(1940:2000,"-01-01"), tz="CET"),
> |>       usetz=TRUE) ended in two "CEST" time formats.
> |> 
> |> -- 
> |> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
> |> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
> |> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
> |> Phone: (+45)38153501
> |> Office: A 4.23
> |> Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
> |> 
> |> _______________________________________________
> |> R-announce at r-project.org mailing list
> |> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-announce
> |> ______________________________________________
> |> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> |> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> |> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> |> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> 
> -- 
> ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.   
>   ___    Patrick Connolly   
> {~._.~}                   Great minds discuss ideas    
> _( Y )_  	         Average minds discuss events 
> (:_~*~_:)                  Small minds discuss people  
> (_)-(_)  	                      ..... Eleanor Roosevelt
> 	  
> ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.

-- 
Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
Office: A 4.23
Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com