Message-ID: <43A976F5.9040501@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2005-12-21T15:38:29Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: CRAN and R v2.2.1 for Windows
In-Reply-To: <43A97314.6060100@maths.lth.se>
On 12/21/2005 10:21 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> 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
Yes, we noticed that just after packaging; the patches will fix it.
> 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.
That should be fixed soon. The handling for betas and patch versions is
different, and sometimes there's a bit of a delay in the switchover as
things fail on one or two builds.
Duncan Murdoch