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12 messages · Djossè Parfait, Martin Morgan, Marc Schwartz +5 more

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Good morning,

I would like to know how often per year is a new full version release of R.



Thanks
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New versions are released when they are ready. This is volunteer-driven software.
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On August 5, 2015 5:55:21 AM EDT, "Djoss? Parfait" <djosseparfait at gmail.com> wrote:
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On 08/05/2015 10:08 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
From https://developer.r-project.org/ :

The overall release schedule is to have annual x.y.0 releases in Spring, with 
patch releases happening on an as-needed basis. It is intended to have a final 
patch release of the previous version shortly before the next major release.

  
    
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In addition, there are documents here:

  https://www.r-project.org/certification.html

that cover R?s SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) that may be helpful.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz
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On 05.08.2015 19:08, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
Actually the plans are a bit more formal:

http://developer.r-project.org/

Best,
Uwe Ligges
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So 3.1.3 to 3.2.0 was a major release?
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On August 5, 2015 1:19:42 PM EDT, Martin Morgan <mtmorgan at fredhutch.org> wrote:
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On 05/08/2015 2:15 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
Yes.  We do have the oddity (see ?version) that 3 is the major version
number and 2.0 is the minor version number including 0 as the
patchlevel, but we still call it a major release when the number in the
middle changes (e.g. 1 changed to 2 in the 3.2.0 release).  It's a patch
release when only the patchlevel changes.

Duncan Murdoch
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Actually the wording on the developer site rather carefully avoids calling minor releases major... 

The dynamics of actual major releases, i.e. x.0.0, are less predictable than the x.y.0 ones; up till now there has been one in each of 2000, 2004, 2013. They usually signify some degree of accomplishment and possibly discontinuity in the API.

-pd

  
    
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On 05/08/2015 4:36 PM, peter dalgaard wrote:
Except when it doesn't:  "It is intended to have a final patch release
of the previous version shortly before the next major release."

Duncan
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A quick internet search for
     R version history
yielded this page
     https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/old/

Jean

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Djoss? Parfait <djosseparfait at gmail.com>
wrote:

  
  
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Argh. Needs fixing... :-p

-pd

  
    
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Done.

(Of course, by the canonical definition of "major", Macintosh hasn't had one for their OS since 2001, so it's all a bit silly.)

-p