R devel - Mar 2015 - Possible values for R version status

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?

On 23/03/2015 9:17 AM, Richard Cotton wrote:
> 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"
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

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:
> 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?
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

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:
> On 23/03/2015 9:17 AM, Richard Cotton wrote:
>>
>> 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"
>
>
> 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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On 23 Mar 2015, at 14:36 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 23/03/2015 9:17 AM, Richard Cotton wrote:
>> 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"
> 
> 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.
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.


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