[ENH] Clarify rsync flavors (PR#2886)
ross@biostat.ucsf.edu writes:
The 1.7.0 (2003-04-16) "R Installation and Adminsistration" manual mentions various flavors of R available from rsync (section 1.2, p. 1). These are also referred to in various other sources on and offline (e.g., the FAQ). The meaning of r-release vs r-patched was not entirely clear to me. How is the patched version patched? Should it just have bug fixes, and so likely be more reliable than r-release? Or is it patched with a lot of development changes, so that it's quite like r-devel?
R-patched = original sources plus bug-fix patches R-devel = development sources that include bug-fix patches _and_ new capabilities We had rather hoped that our choice of names would make this distinction clear.