R help - Oct 2004 - R-2.0: roadmap? release statements? plans?

Hi all,

I took a look at last 2 months post in R-help maillist
and surfed through the R-project.org . Unfortunately,
I can't find some page with roadmap/statements about
major changes coming in R-2.0 in comparison to R-1.9

Could anyone point me to the right URL?

Thank you in advance.
--
Valery

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Khamenia, Valery wrote:
> I took a look at last 2 months post in R-help maillist
Well, R-devel is about developments in R, and R-help is about help for end 
users.
> and surfed through the R-project.org . Unfortunately,
> I can't find some page with roadmap/statements about
> major changes coming in R-2.0 in comparison to R-1.9
Note, neither exist: it is 2.0.0 vs 1.9.1.
> Could anyone point me to the right URL?
http://developer.r-project.org

The NEWS file in the alpha/beta releases that have been made available, 
and announced on R-devel, have details of the changes, major and minor.

Or just wait for the release on Monday October 4th.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

Just to keep Valery from thinking that that web page can not be easily
found:  Go to www.r-project.org and click on `Developer Page' under the
heading `R Project'.  

A suggestion (for CRAN masters?):  On CRAN there is a link to the NEWS file
for the released version.  Maybe it's a good idea to provide one for
alpha/beta version (when available) as well?  The Windows-specific NEWS is
provided for the alpha/beta.

Cheers,
Andy
> From: Prof Brian Ripley
> 
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Khamenia, Valery wrote:
> 
> > I took a look at last 2 months post in R-help maillist
> 
> Well, R-devel is about developments in R, and R-help is about 
> help for end 
> users.
> 
> > and surfed through the R-project.org . Unfortunately,
> > I can't find some page with roadmap/statements about
> > major changes coming in R-2.0 in comparison to R-1.9
> 
> Note, neither exist: it is 2.0.0 vs 1.9.1.
> 
> > Could anyone point me to the right URL?
> 
http://developer.r-project.org

The NEWS file in the alpha/beta releases that have been made available, 
and announced on R-devel, have details of the changes, major and minor.

Or just wait for the release on Monday October 4th.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

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Well, you could download the latest beta-release and look in the NEWS
file there.

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Bj??rn-Helge Mevik

"Khamenia, Valery" <V.Khamenia at biovision-discovery.de>
writes:
> Hi all,
> 
> I took a look at last 2 months post in R-help maillist
> and surfed through the R-project.org . Unfortunately,
> I can't find some page with roadmap/statements about
> major changes coming in R-2.0 in comparison to R-1.9
> 
> Could anyone point me to the right URL?
You actually got one from me the first time you asked....!

https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/NEWS

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(Moved from r-help to r-devel)

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:00:05 -0400, "Liaw, Andy"
<andy_liaw@merck.com>
wrote :
>Just to keep Valery from thinking that that web page can not be easily
>found:  Go to www.r-project.org and click on `Developer Page' under the
>heading `R Project'.  
>
>A suggestion (for CRAN masters?):  On CRAN there is a link to the NEWS file
>for the released version.  Maybe it's a good idea to provide one for
>alpha/beta version (when available) as well?  The Windows-specific NEWS is
>provided for the alpha/beta.
Both the general NEWS file and the windows-specific CHANGES file are
online at <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html>.
The main problem with that file is that it is the version that was
current at the time of the Windows binary build, not necessarily the
same as the current source file.

To get the very most current one, you want to go to the Subversion
archive,

https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/NEWS  (For major release changes,
e.g. 2.0.0 for now, 2.1.0 after Monday, etc.)

https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-1-9-patches/NEWS (For the
current patches; change to "-2-0-" on Monday.)

I think the reason these links aren't given on the developer page is
that the Subversion archive is relatively new, and we weren't sure
that it could handle the load of being a public resource.  Could that
change now?

Duncan Murdoch