If you have production code written in R that make it expensive to
even consider upgrading to the latest R, it may be worth paying the
support fees of an organization like RStudio.
Otherwise, I think it make sense to upgrade to the latest version and
hope for the best. If you encounter problems, you can ask someplace on
StackExchange or one of the R email lists like this or a package
maintainer, as Duncan said.
Spencer
On 2020-09-19 12:44, Duncan Murdoch 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
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