Upgrading R
Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> writes:
You have to distinguish official releases and patched versions. For official releases: Form the developer page: "The general schedule is to have major releases (x.y.0) biannually". During the last few years, each major release was followed by one minor (bug-fix) release after roughly one month.
Right, the daily builds are unreleased snapshots, and are not tested by me. If all goes well then whoever committed the latest changes tested them and didn't break anything, but things occasionally go wrong, which is why we have the alpha and beta test periods before a release.
In particular, daily snapshots are usually only tested on the machine of the last person to commit code to the repository. One of the main points of having the test periods before release, and the associated code freezes, is that this allows a reasonable chance that the released sources work across a range of platforms. (The other reason is that it prevents developers from rushing in changes.)
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