R 3.0.0 Released(r-project.org)

131 pointsby surajguptavor 13 Jahren13 comments

http://www.r-project.org/

5 comments

jph98vor 13 Jahren

Release Notes - http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/src/base/NEWS.html

k2enemyvor 13 Jahren

Thanks. I don't know why open source projects tend to make it so difficult to find out what the new features are in a major release.

Hansivor 13 Jahren

I don't think that applies in this case does it? On the front page for all of the mirrors it says: "The latest release (2013-04-03, Masked Marvel): [R-3.0.0.tar.gz], read [what's new] in the latest version." With the [] as links to the release and release notes.

takluyvervor 13 Jahren

That's interesting: for me, the homepage just says "R version 3.0.0 (Masked Marvel) has been released on 2013-04-03." without any links. There's a What's New link in the sidebar, but it just takes me to mailing list archives.

LukeShuvor 13 Jahren

While it initially looks like all that page, at the very bottom is a "Changes in R" section that has a link to the NEWS file.

pseutvor 13 Jahren

You seem to be using http://cran.r-project.org (which is what's actually mirrored) and not the linked webpage.

Hansivor 13 Jahren

Correct, hence "all of the mirrors" :)

But it is a good point that it's surprising not to have Project landing page.

There was a mailing list discussion on it a while back, can't remember what the maintainers said was their reason for this.

k2enemyvor 13 Jahren

Interesting -- there is no such link in the page that I land on.

marcioaguiarvor 13 Jahren

nothing for me too

iSnowvor 13 Jahren

Congrats, R is probably the most interesting language I tried in some time :)

And I really do dig the '95 retro chic of the site.

surajguptavor 13 Jahren

Here's source code for the release on GitHub: https://github.com/SurajGupta/r-source

The R team maintains an SVN repo, but I prefer browsing source on GitHub

keithpetervor 13 Jahren

Seems to compile ok (under my home drive) on Scientific Linux 5.9 using the instructions at

http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.h...

Passes all the supplied tests and my simple scripts run just as they did on 2.13.

I had to get the source tar from a US mirror as the UK ones have not sync'ed yet.

PDF manual did not build as the version of LaTeX on EL 5.9 is fairly ancient. ggplot2 installs fine though.

georgegvor 13 Jahren

And I wished the R main website would get a face-lift as well :)