R devel - Nov 2014 - r-release, r-oldrel

Hi All,

quick question. How does one know which R versions r-release and
r-oldrel correspond to? Is there a prefered way to determine this
programmatically?

So far I could only find messy ways, like parsing the HTML of the
homepage, or (for r-release) checking the latest R-x-x-x tag in the
SVN. The SVN is actually not bad, but how about r-oldrel? Is that
always the previous release? Or the previous minor?

Thanks, Best,
Gabor

On 05.11.2014 02:44, G?bor Cs?rdi wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> quick question. How does one know which R versions r-release
The latest official release, i.e. currently R-3.1.2.
> and r-oldrel
If R-x.y.z is recent, then r-oldrel corresponds to the latest "y-1" 
version, i.e. currently R-3.0.3.

Best,
Uwe Ligges




> correspond to? Is there a prefered way to determine this
> programmatically?
>
> So far I could only find messy ways, like parsing the HTML of the
> homepage, or (for r-release) checking the latest R-x-x-x tag in the
> SVN. The SVN is actually not bad, but how about r-oldrel? Is that
> always the previous release? Or the previous minor?
>
> Thanks, Best,
> Gabor
>
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