-----Original Message----- From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley Sent: March-18-11 2:22 PM To: R-devel at r-project.org Subject: [Rd] Testing window for R 2.13.0 We are now starting testing R 2.13.0/alpha/beta/RC and testing and feedback would be appreciated (whereas reports on problems immediately after release will try our patience).
Thank you for another release and all of your hard work. Hopefully your degree of impatience with reports immediately after release is inversely proportional to the number of reports before release. Given some good pre-release feedback it would be a shame to discourage reports immediately after release :) I'll install and start testing now... Having worked for a commercial software company, I am continuously amazed at how quickly bugs are fixed, feature requests are implemented, and patched versions released by this open source group (this includes Bioconductor and many of the package maintainers). No commercial vendor that I know of can or will match this response. Steven McKinney Statistician Molecular Oncology and Breast Cancer Program British Columbia Cancer Research Centre
Sources are available at http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/ Windows binaries at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rtest.html and Mac binaries at http://r.research.att.com/, specifically http://r.research.att.com/R-2.13-branch-leopard.pkg (and it is best to use the CRAN master rather than mirrors which will lag behind). Please report (success as well as failure except on the most common platforms) here, R-windows at r-project.org or R-sig-mac at r-project.org. We probably have good coverage of Debian/Fedora i686/x86_64 Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris and x86_64 FreeBSD 8.2: reports on other platforms would be particularly welcome. There have been a number of confused postings about 64-bit R on Solaris: the R-admin manual in this version contains detailed instructions on what works for us (Solaris Studio 12.2 and 12u1, and gcc4 on Sparc) and what doesn't (gcc on amd64) and why. Package maintainers should review the results for their packages at http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html and submit updates if needed as soon as possible and definitely well before April 13. That page is in the process of migration to R-prerel: for now the most useful columns are r-devel (Fedora), r-devel (Windows, really R-prerel) and the Solaris x86 column. Brian Ripley (for the R-core team) -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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