[R] Information about compatibility R

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Hi,

your question is nearly impossible to answer without actual testing of
your existing pipelines.  But from my soon 20-year usage of R, it's
clear to me that the R Core Team strives to keep things backward
compatible as far as they can.  The NEWS file:

  https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/NEWS.html

contains useful information on what's been updated in each release -
you can inspect that one from your own perspective.  There are also
12,000 packages on CRAN that are tested on old-release, current
release, and developers version of R.  Many of these packages rarely
gets updated, which indicates that these package work across a large
number of R versions (and platforms).

FYI, R 3.5.0 is being released on April 23, 2018.  You should aim to
install that version.   Also, on Linux it's not too hard to install
multiple R versions in parallel when you install from source.  Then
you can go back and forth between version whenever you'd like.

/Henrik



On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 8:31 AM, Marcos Fiorini <marcosfmaia using hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
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> I need an information about compatibility of R and Suse Linux. I have installed R 3.2.1 in Suse Linux 11 SP4 and I would like know if it’s compatible the upgrade for the new version 3.4.4 in my Suse release? This information’s about version R and linux version have in site or other place?
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> Thanks.
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> Marcos Fiorini
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