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.dun...@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 -- Regards, Richie Learning R 4dpiecharts.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel