Status of R 2.4.0 in svn repository and R-Admin manual
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 15:03 +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk> writes:
Dear list, I have been using and testing the alpha/betas of R 2.4.0, sources for which I got from svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-4-branch, and which I compiled on my Fedora Core 5 machine. No problems there. I have just updated the source tree today and re-compiled - which also works just fine. When run, this gives: R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-03 r39576) So I assume from that, that I am using the latest version of the R 2.4 branch? This is a little at odds with the R-Admin manual, which in section 1.2.1 states that you get R-patched from https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-x-y-patches/ . But there is no R-2-4-patches/ on svn.r-project.org/R/branches/. Is the documentation in this manual incorrect for R >= 2.4.0, and will svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-2-4-branch continue to be R 2.4.0 patched? Or will a R-x-y-branches branch be created for this release?
This is just an oversight. Thing is that we decided to create the branch already at "Grand-Feature Freeze", which simplifies the release phase procedures quite a bit and reduces the risk of last-minute surprises. It also opens up the "trunk" for new development a bit earlier. So 2.4.x alpha/beta/RC/<final>/Patched releases are now all cut from the same branch. A side effect was that the branch name "x-y-patches" would be a misnomer, so it got changed.
Hi Peter,
Thanks for clearing that up for me. If this is the way things are going
to be done in future, here is a patch to the R-admin.texi sources (also
attached)
All the best,
G
## Patch to R-admin.texi - I hope I did this right, first time and all?
Index: doc/manual/R-admin.texi
===================================================================
--- doc/manual/R-admin.texi (revision 39576)
+++ doc/manual/R-admin.texi (working copy)
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
@url{http://subversion.tigris.org/, @code{subversion.tigris.org}}), you
can check out and update the current r-devel from
@url{https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/} and the current r-patched from
- at samp{https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R- at var{x}- at var{y}-patches/}
+ at samp{https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R- at var{x}- at var{y}-branch/}
(where @var{x} and @var{y} are the major and minor number of the current
released version of R). E.g., use
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