CRAN and R v2.2.1 for Windows

Henrik Bengtsson <hb at maths.lth.se> writes:

Thanks for the new updates in v2.2.1.

I just noticed a few "problems" on 
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/.

1) The CHANGES and NEWS files for v2.2.1 does not include info on v2.2.1 
but only details up until v2.2.0, cf. 
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/NEWS

They have info for "R 2.2.0 patched" and 2.2.1 is just a frozen
version of that. I.e., the only problem is that we forgot to change
the heading (and that nobody bothered to check for this sort of thing
in the 2-week beta period!).

I noticed the issue just after building the release, but decided that
it wasn't worth messing with the SVN tags for something as small as
this.

2) The patched version is now denoted "beta" (files and installation 
directory), which I believe is misleading since it is a patch of the 
"stable" version.

"2.2.0 Patched" is changed to "2.2.1 beta" during the beta period. The
release script ends with

cd $SRCDIR
echo $REL "Patched"  > VERSION
svn commit -m "setup patch version"

so I believe this is a temporary situation and that r-patched will
become "2.2.1 Patched" next time around.

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