Le Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 11:02:12AM -0800, Josiah Parry a écrit :
It would be really nice if the full semantic versioning spec was supported
in R. I can understand why only major.minor.patch would be supported for
CRAN. But for an R package in a development stage, it would be wonderful to
support pre-release and build metadata.
Use of `-` in semver to determine pre-release:
https://semver.org/#spec-item-9
In Debian we have long handled this use‑case by using a tilde (~) in
version strings—well before semver was formalized. If you like the
semantics of pre‑release identifiers but want to avoid changing the
meaning of - in existing R versioning, adopting ~ might be a practical
alternative.
Relevant documentation:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#version
Have a nice week-end,
Charles Plessy
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