Message-ID: <4DAE303C-21C9-4A76-9335-7B0D149B0A07@gmail.com>
Date: 2015-03-23T14:39:57Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Possible values for R version status
In-Reply-To: <551016FA.2090906@gmail.com>
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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