Thanks for this Nic. And just to clarify: the latest here is the latest _release_ of Apache Arrow with this new set up. Prior to this the build available on R-universe were effectively dev builds (commits to main), but with this new tag, R-universe will only have (or at least default to having) the latest release.
-Jon On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 2:18 PM Nic Crane <thisis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > The Arrow R package is distributed via a few different methods, one of > which is R-universe[1]. > > In order for r-universe to track the latest version of the R package, we > have started using the tag "r-universe-release" to indicate the commit > which represents the latest version of the R package (which is also > submitted to CRAN). > > I'm mentioning it here just to be transparent about this - it doesn't make > any changes to the current release process as it's still the version based > off the release candidate and this is just an additional step for the R > package which follows a successful main project release. > > Hope this all sounds OK - if not, happy to take feedback for changes etc on > this. > > Thanks, > > Nic > > > [1] https://r-universe.dev/ >
