| Title: | Query 'R' Versions, Including 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel' |
| Version: | 2.1.2 |
| Description: | Query the main 'R' 'SVN' repository to find the versions 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel' refer to, and also all previous 'R' versions and their release dates. |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://github.com/r-hub/rversions, https://r-hub.github.io/rversions/ |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/r-hub/rversions/issues |
| Imports: | curl, utils, xml2 (≥ 1.0.0) |
| Suggests: | covr, mockery, testthat |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| RoxygenNote: | 7.2.1.9000 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2022-08-31 09:59:51 UTC; gaborcsardi |
| Author: | Gábor Csárdi [aut, cre], Jeroen Ooms [ctb], R Consortium [fnd] |
| Maintainer: | Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor@gmail.com> |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2022-08-31 10:30:02 UTC |
rversions: Query 'R' Versions, Including 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel'
Description
Query the main 'R' 'SVN' repository to find the versions 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel' refer to, and also all previous 'R' versions and their release dates.
Details
The R version numbers and dates are extracted from the main R SVN repository at https://svn.r-project.org/R/.
Author(s)
Maintainer: Gábor Csárdi csardi.gabor@gmail.com
Other contributors:
Jeroen Ooms jeroen.ooms@stat.ucla.edu [contributor]
R Consortium [funder]
See Also
Useful links:
Report bugs at https://github.com/r-hub/rversions/issues
Version number of R-oldrel
Description
R-oldrel is the latest version of the previous minor version. We extract version numbers from the R SVN repository tags.
Usage
r_oldrel(dots = TRUE)
Arguments
dots |
Whether to use dots instead of dashes in the version number. |
Value
A one row data frame, with columns ‘version’, ‘date’ and ‘nickname’.
Examples
r_oldrel()
Version number of R-release
Description
The latest tag in the SVN repository (in terms of version numbers, not dates).
Usage
r_release(dots = TRUE)
Arguments
dots |
Whether to use dots instead of dashes in the version number. |
Value
A one row data frame, with columns ‘version’, ‘date’ and ‘nickname’.
Examples
r_release()
Latest R release with a macOS installer available for download
Description
r_release() works based on the SVN tags in the main R source code
repository. However, an SVN tag does not mean that the same version
is available for download. r_release_macos returns the latest
version for which a macOS installer is available.
Usage
r_release_macos()
Value
A one row data frame, with columns ‘version’, ‘date’, ‘URL’ and ‘nickname’.
See Also
Other R downloads:
r_release_tarball(),
r_release_win()
Examples
r_release()
r_release_macos()
Latest release for which a source tarball is available for download
Description
r_release() works based on the SVN tags in the main R source code
repository. However, an SVN tag does not mean that the same version
is available for download. r_release_tarball returns the latest
version for which a source tarball is available.
Usage
r_release_tarball()
Value
A one row data frame, with columns ‘version’, ‘date’, ‘URL’ and ‘nickname’.
See Also
Other R downloads:
r_release_macos(),
r_release_win()
Examples
r_release()
r_release_tarball()
Latest R release with a Windows installer available for download
Description
r_release() works based on the SVN tags in the main R source code
repository. However, an SVN tag does not mean that the same version
is available for download. r_release_win returns the latest
version for which a Windows installer is available.
Usage
r_release_win()
Value
A one row data frame, with columns ‘version’, ‘date’, ‘URL’ and ‘nickname’.
See Also
Other R downloads:
r_release_macos(),
r_release_tarball()
Examples
r_release()
r_release_win()
Query R's past and present versions
Description
R version numbers consist of three numbers (since version 1.4.1): major, minor and patch.
Usage
r_versions(dots = TRUE)
Arguments
dots |
Whether to use dots instead of dashes in the version number. |
Details
We extract the version numbers from the tags in the SVN repository.
Value
A data frame with three columns: ‘version’, ‘date’ and ‘nickname’.
Examples
r_versions()