[Rd] R-patched on CRAN is R-4.3.3

Tomas Kalibera
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 07:56:53 -0000

On 7/15/24 07:08, Peter Langfelder wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> apologies if I missed something here. Just downloaded and compiled
> R-patched from https://stat.ethz.ch/R/daily/ but it reports as R-4.3.3
> (2024-04-09 r86895) -- "Angel Food Cake". The last dated
R-patched is
> from 2024-04-09, about 3 months old. Are R-patched not updated
> anymore, am I looking at a wrong directory or even a wrong server? The
> current R Installation and Administration manual
>
(https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Getting-patched-and-development-versions)
> suggests that the current R-patched should be where I looked for it:
>
> A patched version of the current release, ?r-patched?, and the current
> development version, ?r-devel?, are available as daily tarballs and
> via access to the R Subversion repository. (For the two weeks prior to
> the release of a minor (4.x.0) version, ?r-patched? tarballs may refer
> to beta/release candidates of the upcoming release, the patched
> version of the current release being available via Subversion.)
>
> The tarballs are available from https://stat.ethz.ch/R/daily/.
> Download R-patched.tar.gz or R-devel.tar.gz (or the .tar.bz2 versions)
> and unpack as described in the previous section. They are built in
> exactly the same way as distributions of R releases.

Before this gets resolved, you can get the latest version of R-patched
from svn:

https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-4-4-branch

(and the current R release from
https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.4.1.tar.gz)

Tomas

>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
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