On 23 Mar 2015, at 14:36 , 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. Yep. The transition cycle on the SVN release branch goes alpha -> beta -> RC -> "" -> Patched and the SVN trunk is permanently "Under development (unstable)" Notice that the empty string is used for _official releases_. I wouldn't know in what sense "Stable" would apply to those, but they are typically the ones that 3rd party developers like Linux distributions would pick up and ship. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
