Possible values for R version status
On 23 Mar 2015, at 14:36 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
On 23/03/2015 9:17 AM, Richard Cotton wrote:
Is there a complete list somewhere of the possible values for R's status, as returned by version$status? I know about these values: Stable: "" Devel: "Under development (unstable)" Patched: "Patched" Release candidate: "RC" Alpha: "Alpha"
I don't think we use "Alpha", I think it's lowercase. There is also "beta". You can see the list at http://developer.r-project.org/release-checklist.html, in the lines that describe the version being set.
Yep. The transition cycle on the SVN release branch goes alpha -> beta -> RC -> "" -> Patched and the SVN trunk is permanently "Under development (unstable)" Notice that the empty string is used for _official releases_. I wouldn't know in what sense "Stable" would apply to those, but they are typically the ones that 3rd party developers like Linux distributions would pick up and ship.
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