[R-pkg-devel] new version jumps in minor?

[Rolf Turner]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 16:33:40 -0500
Toby Hocking <tdhock5 using gmail.com> wrote:

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> Version jumps in minor (submitted: 2024.11.2, existing: 2024.1.24)

It looks to me that you are setting your version numbers in an
unorthodox manner, which could/will confuse the living Drambuie out of
people.

I conjecture that you are setting your version number to represent the
relevant date.  E.g. 2024.11.2  means 2 November, 2024 and 2024.1.24
means 24 January 2024.

In my understanding, the usual convention is for the version number to
be of the form l.m.n (or l.m-n) --- major.minor.patch (or
major.minor-patch).  The date should be specified in the *Date* field of
the DESCRIPTION file.

It probably does not matter a hell of a lot.  "Writing R Extensions"
just says that the version number should be "a sequence of at least two
(and usually three) non-negative integers separated by single ‘.’ or
‘-’ characters".

However you might save yourself some "NOTEs" by adhering to the
"l.m.n" convention and incrementing the components sequentially.

cheers,

Rolf Turner

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