similar to: R-1.8.1 scheduled for November 21

OK folks, We're warming up to the release of R-2.0.0 on Oct. 4 (aka 2004-10-04). There will be two weeks of alpha releases followed by two weeks of beta releases, starting today. The releases are made available via CRAN in http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease and the first one is there already. In case of urgency or CRAN failure, the releases will also be found at

The release of R-1.9.1 is scheduled for Monday, June 21. Automatic generation of daily alpha releases should start Monday, June 7 and switch to beta status on Monday, June 14. It would be good if package maintainers could get any planned changes done as soon as possible, and test their packages carefully against the alpha/beta releases. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3

R-1.8.1 has now reached the beta stage with one week left before release. This just to remind you that this would be a good time to give the new version a spin and see whether your favourite bugs have been cleared out. -p -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark

This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.6.1 on Monday, November 26, 2007. The current experience is that beta releases receive very little end-user testing and that most bugs are not found until (shortly) after release. Accordingly, we have decided this time to skip the beta phase and go directly for one week of RC (Release Candidate) versions. The main bugs to get rid of are the

The release schedule has now been set with a release date on April 18. The detailed procedure can be found at http://developer.r-project.org/ (it is not quite there yet, but will appear after a short propagation delay.) The main point for non-developers is that we start making alpha tarballs on March 21 and beta tarballs on April 4. Only very simple and/or critical bugs are fixed in the last

We plan to put out R-1.4.1 on Wednesday. This is mainly to get the fixes that we have already made into an official version, and to clean up the problem with the Windows build. Several on the core team are under fairly heavy load at this time, so we'll probably be reluctant to fix further bugs unless they are clearly serious and/or trivial to fix. Those of you that have unusual platforms

The core team has decided to release R 1.5.0 on April 29th. Somewhat earlier than maybe expected, but we realized that we needed a phase-shift away from our usual cycle with main releases in June and December since it was placing feature freezes just when several members were in a creative phase due to end of teaching. The roadmap is as follows April 8 feature freeze on r-base April 15 code

As the subject says, the core team has decided to release R-1.5.1 next Monday, mainly to "officialize" the bug fixes in the current r-patched. It would be helpful that you check it out and report back if you find any bad problems, especially if you have an uncommon platform. (Or very minor nits. The intermediate ones are "out of bounds" at this stage.) -- O__ ---- Peter

We have now (actually a few days ago) declared a "Grand Feature Freeze" on the development sourcs, meaning that we might still add functionality and fix bugs, but we will not do any further major changes. It should be noted that there has been a couple of quite big changes compared to the 1.6.x series, notably namespaces and the methods package. Also, many more packages are now loaded

I've rolled up R-1.8.1.tgz a short while ago. This is a patch version mostly fixing a number of issues in 1.8.0, some of which were quite serious. As usual, a few new features have crept in as well. (See below for details.) You can get it from http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/R-1.8.1.tgz or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you. Binaries for various platforms will

I've rolled up R-1.8.1.tgz a short while ago. This is a patch version mostly fixing a number of issues in 1.8.0, some of which were quite serious. As usual, a few new features have crept in as well. (See below for details.) You can get it from http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/R-1.8.1.tgz or wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site nearer to you. Binaries for various platforms will

I do think keeping the default behavior is desirable for backwards compatibility; my suggestion is not to change default behavior but to add an optional argument that allows a different behavior. Although this can be implemented in a user-defined function, retaining empty matches facilitates programmatic use, and seems to be something that should be available in base R. It is available, for

The process leading up to the release of 1.9.0 is detailed below. Package maintainers may want to take notice of important dates and make sure that their packages still work with the alpha/beta releases or work on making a 1.9.x comaptible version. As usual, everybody is encouraged to try out the preliminary releases and report back so that we can get the last wrinkles ironed out before release.

R 1.6.1 has been scheduled for November 1. We're makin interim beta versions available via http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base (ftp://cran.us.r-project.org/pub/R/src/base used to work, but apparently FTP access has been disabled) The filename is R-1.6.1beta_*.tar.gz, where * is the creation date. If you want to help ensure that the final 1.6.1 works satisfactorily on *your* platform,

Dear Peter, Thank you very much for your kind and helpful reply. As I mentioned in a followup email to r-bugs, indeed, one aspect of this issue is a (user specified) shorter stack than that expected by R -- I had only allowed 1 MB of stack space a long long time ago, and forgotten about it. Due to a glitch with r-bugs@r-project.org, I ended up submitting this bug twice, and your original

This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.11.0 on Thursday, April 22, 2010. Those directly involved should review the generic schedule at http://developer.r-project.org/release-checklist.html The source tarballs will be made available daily (barring build troubles) via http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/ For the R Core Team Peter Dalgaard -- O__ ---- Peter

This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.11.0 on Thursday, April 22, 2010. Those directly involved should review the generic schedule at http://developer.r-project.org/release-checklist.html The source tarballs will be made available daily (barring build troubles) via http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/ For the R Core Team Peter Dalgaard -- O__ ---- Peter

This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.8.0 on Friday, April 17, 2009. Release procedures start Tuesday March 17. The detailed schedule can be found on http://developer.r-project.org The source tarballs will be made available daily (barring build troubles) and the tarballs can be picked up at http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/ a little later. Binary builds are

This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.8.0 on Friday, April 17, 2009. Release procedures start Tuesday March 17. The detailed schedule can be found on http://developer.r-project.org The source tarballs will be made available daily (barring build troubles) and the tarballs can be picked up at http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/ a little later. Binary builds are

(Resent, now with correct date in subject. Doh!) This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.7.1 on Monday, June 23, 2008. Release procedures start tomorrow, Friday June 13. The source tarballs will be made available daily (barring build troubles) by a cron job running at 4AM CET, and the tarballs can be picked up at http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/ a little later.