> On Sep 19, 2020, at 1:44 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 18/09/2020 1:39 p.m., Shapira, Leeor via R-help wrote: >> Can you please let me know the End of Life and End of Vendor Support dates >> for CRAN R for Windows 3.6.3? Thank you. > > R doesn't have either of those. There is no vendor support ever. It is free > software; it is up to its users to support it. On the other hand, it is free > software, so you can use it forever. > > In practice, there is de facto support from its authors in that they are very > responsive to bug reports. That ends with the next release, so 3.6.3 support > ended in April, 2020 when R 4.0.0 was released. > > Another way to think of support and end of life equivalents is to ask how > long CRAN will provide the source code to packages for it. There are no time > limits on that, though it can be some work to find a set and tools to build > them if you are using older releases. > > And finally, you might want to know how long CRAN will keep updating binary > packages for R 3.6.3. I think that should continue until the release of R > 4.1.0, sometime around April 2021. > > Duncan Murdoch
Hi, Just to add on to Duncan's comments, you may want to read the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) document here: https://www.r-project.org/certification.html That will give you insights into R's development, release and maintenance timelines. Regards, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
