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Possible values for R version status

5 messages · Richard Cotton, Duncan Murdoch, Mark van der Loo +1 more

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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"

Are there any others that I've missed?
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On 23/03/2015 9:17 AM, Richard Cotton wrote:
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.

Duncan Murdoch
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In the R installation and administration manual[*] I see at least mentioned

  The alpha, beta and RC versions of an upcoming x.y.0 release are
available [...]

so 'beta' seems to be an option unless it is only  used informally there.

Mark

[*] http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Using-Subversion-and-rsync
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Richard Cotton <richierocks at gmail.com> wrote:
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Thanks for this.  You are right that it's a lowercase "a"; the
documentation on the R.Version help page is incorrect.  That describes
status as 'the status of the version (e.g., "Alpha")'.
On 23 March 2015 at 16:36, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:

  
    
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On 23 Mar 2015, at 14:36 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:

            
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.