Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Philippe Grosjean wrote:
I am making changes to some of my packages that are exposed in CRAN. Some changes make them incompatible with previous R versions [and I use Depends: R (>= 2.1.0)]. I suspect that, as soon as I will upload this new version to CRAN, it will replace the old one _everywhere_?
No. It would not be offered as an update to systems running R < 2.1.0.
However, the previous version of these packages remains perfectly usable with R 1.9.X or 2.0.X. So, will this break the binaries in /windows/contrib/1.9|2.0, or will the latest valid binaries of my packages remain there, not updated? To put it another way, for
We do not update binary versions for obselete versions of R. Just look at the dates on the directories: 2.0 was last updated on April 19. And even if we did (the 1.9 directory was AFAIR updated for a bit after 2.0.0 came out) the version depending on R >= 2.1.0 would not build and
Yes, you are perfectly right.
There is also documentation that is even more specific in CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/1.9/ReadMe which tells us:
*********************************************************** This collection is for rw1090/1 only. It is no longer being updated: please update to rw2001. Last update: 15.12.2004. ***********************************************************
I planned to update R-2.0.x also for a while. In fact, too many packages had versions out that depended on R>=2.1.0 very quickly (even if not mentioned in the DESCRIPTION file), and it's a whole mess to let the autobuilder decide which package to update, which not, and which to mark to be erroneous. So I decided not to update anything in order not to disarrange the whole repository.
so the last good version would be left.
Yes, and accordingly CRAN/bin/windows/contrib/ReadMe tells us:
./1.9 Binaries for R-1.9.x - no longer updated ./2.0 Binaries for R-2.0.x - no longer updated ./2.1 Binaries for R-2.1.x - release (AKA r-release)
Uwe
______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
