Re: [Rd] r-release, r-oldrel

2014-11-20 Thread Gábor Csárdi
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 6:09 AM, peter dalgaard wrote: [...] > Now you got me curious... this seems to do the job of finding the last > release of all major.minor series: > > tb <- read.table(text=system("svn ls -v http://svn.r-project.org/R/tags";, > intern=TRUE)) > names(tb) <- c("rev","au","m"

Re: [Rd] r-release, r-oldrel

2014-11-07 Thread peter dalgaard
On 06 Nov 2014, at 23:45 , Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > On 06.11.2014 23:41, Gábor Csárdi wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Uwe Ligges >> wrote: >> [...] quick question. How does one know which R versions r-release >>> >>> >>> The latest official release, i.e. currently R-3.1.2. >>

Re: [Rd] r-release, r-oldrel

2014-11-06 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 06.11.2014 23:41, Gábor Csárdi wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: [...] quick question. How does one know which R versions r-release The latest official release, i.e. currently R-3.1.2. Thanks! How does one know what is the latest official release? Is parsing th

Re: [Rd] r-release, r-oldrel

2014-11-06 Thread Gábor Csárdi
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: [...] >> quick question. How does one know which R versions r-release > > > The latest official release, i.e. currently R-3.1.2. Thanks! How does one know what is the latest official release? Is parsing the R homepage the best way to determine it

Re: [Rd] r-release, r-oldrel

2014-11-06 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 05.11.2014 02:44, Gábor Csárdi wrote: Hi All, quick question. How does one know which R versions r-release The latest official release, i.e. currently R-3.1.2. and r-oldrel If R-x.y.z is recent, then r-oldrel corresponds to the latest "y-1" version, i.e. currently R-3.0.3. Best, Uw

[Rd] r-release, r-oldrel

2014-11-04 Thread Gábor Csárdi
Hi All, quick question. How does one know which R versions r-release and r-oldrel correspond to? Is there a prefered way to determine this programmatically? So far I could only find messy ways, like parsing the HTML of the homepage, or (for r-release) checking the latest R-x-x-x tag in the SVN. T