[Rd] R-devel (2.14 alpha) Windows binary

Dan Tenenbaum dtenenba at fhcrc.org
Wed Oct 5 19:06:51 CEST 2011


On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> An automated build (done on winbuilder) will take a few days: people are too
> busy this week.
>
> For the time being, I have put a current Windows installer for R 2.14.0
> alpha at
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/R-2.14.0alpha-win.exe
> I am unlikely to update it often (and I too am busy this week).

It looks like R 2.14.0 alpha is available on CRAN:

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html

Thanks,
Dan

>
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>>
>>> I suspect that the Windows build system just hasn't caught on to the
>>> short time between 2.13.2 and the start of run-in for 2.14.0. I think the
>>> usual logic is that pre-releases of the next version replace the patch
>>> releases of the old one (by definition, there shouldn't be updates to 2.13.2
>>> anyway).
>>
>> Correct, but it also does not have a 'R 2.15.0 devel' (not that there is
>> such a thing: R-devel does not have a version number). In fact it has
>>
>> ncftp /pub/R/bin/windows/base > ls -l
>> ...
>> -rw-rw-r--    1 0        1001     40213201 Sep 30 19:18 R-2.13.2-win.exe
>> -rw-rw-r--    1 0        1001     41018043 Oct  4 11:49
>> R-2.13.2patched-win.exe
>> -rw-rw-r--    1 0        1001     47707488 Oct  2 10:45
>> R-2.14.0dev-win.exe
>> ...
>>
>> so R-2.14.0dev-win.exe would be a pretty good surrogate for R 2.14.0 alpha
>> until that is available.
>>
>>>
>>> -pd
>>>
>>> On Oct 5, 2011, at 00:46 , Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> This question popped up on the bioc-devel list, I'm forwarding it here.
>>>>
>>>> I know that sources for R-2.14 alpha can be found here:
>>>>
>>>> http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/
>>>>
>>>> But the OP (below) is asking about Windows binaries.
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Stefan McKinnon Høj-Edwards <Stefan.Hoj-Edwards at agrsci.dk>
>>>> Date: 2011/10/4
>>>> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Bioc 2.9 New Package submissions. The
>>>> October deadlines are fast approaching.
>>>> To: "bioc-devel at r-project.org" <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> According to the BioC release plan, we should use R-2.14.0 devel-alpha
>>>> to check our packages.
>>>> But on cran, we can either choose R 2.13.2
>>>> (http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/) or R 2.15.0 devel
>>>> (http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html). Am I missing
>>>> something? And will it again be possible to get the binaries for
>>>> Windows of the 2.14.0 devel-alpha?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards
>>>> Stefan McKinnon Høj-Edwards              Dept. of Molecular Biology and
>>>> Genetics
>>>> Ph.D. Fellow                             Aarhus University
>>>>                                        Blichers Allé 20, Postboks 50
>>>>                                        DK-8830 Tjele
>>>> Tel.: +45 8715 7969                      Tel.: +45 8715 6000
>>>> Email: Stefan.Hoj-Edwards at agrsci.dk      Web: www.agrsci.dk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
>>>> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:36:15 -0700
>>>> From: Marc Carlson <mcarlson at fhcrc.org>
>>>> To: bioc-devel at r-project.org
>>>> Subject: [Bioc-devel] Bioc 2.9 New Package submissions. The October
>>>>       deadlines are fast approaching.
>>>> Message-ID: <4E8A46EF.3030007 at fhcrc.org>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>>>
>>>> Dear Bioconductor developers,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This announcement is for package authors who are in the process of
>>>> developing packages for inclusion in the upcoming 2.9 release of
>>>> Bioconductor in October.
>>>>
>>>> The deadline to make a submission for this release is going to be
>>>> October 10th, 2011. Packages submitted after the deadline will probably
>>>> not provide us with sufficient time for inclusion in this release.
>>>> Earlier submissions are encouraged as it provides more time to correct
>>>> issues raised during the review process and probably has an improved
>>>> chance of making it into the release.
>>>>
>>>> If you do not have your package ready in time for this deadline, your
>>>> package will still be included in our development branch of Bioconductor
>>>> and will be scheduled for inclusion in the subsequent release version of
>>>> Bioconductor.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Other important deadlines to consider are listed on our Release
>>>> schedule. If you have packages in the repository (and most of you do),
>>>> it is probably a good idea to follow the following link and see the
>>>> other deadlines that are approaching.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/release-schedule/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  The Biocore Team
>>>>
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>
> --
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595



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