Title: Query 'R' Versions, Including 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel'
Version: 3.0.0
Description: Query the main 'R' 'SVN' repository to find the versions 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel' refer to, and also all previous 'R' versions and their release dates.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/r-hub/rversions, https://r-hub.github.io/rversions/
BugReports: https://github.com/r-hub/rversions/issues
Imports: curl
Suggests: pillar, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), webfakes, withr
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Config/testthat/edition: 3
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2025-10-09 13:47:01 UTC; gaborcsardi
Author: Gábor Csárdi [aut, cre], Jeroen Ooms [ctb], R Consortium [fnd], Posit Software, PBC ROR ID [cph, fnd]
Maintainer: Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor@gmail.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2025-10-09 14:10:02 UTC

rversions: Query 'R' Versions, Including 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel'

Description

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Query the main 'R' 'SVN' repository to find the versions 'r-release' and 'r-oldrel' refer to, and also all previous 'R' versions and their release dates.

Details

The R version numbers and dates are extracted from the main R SVN repository at https://svn.r-project.org/R/.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Gábor Csárdi csardi.gabor@gmail.com

Other contributors:

See Also

Useful links:

Available R Builds

Description

Available R Builds

Usage

available(platform = current_r_platform())

Arguments

platform

Operating system version. Defaults to current_r_platform(). Possible values are:

  • windows: x86_64 Windows.

  • windows-x86_64: the same.

  • windows-aarch64: aarch64 Windows.

  • macos: arm64 macOS.

  • macos-arm64: the same.

  • macos-x86_64: x86_64 macOS.

  • ⁠linux-<distro>-<release>⁠: x86_64 Linux on the given distribution and release, e.g. linux-ubuntu-22.04.

  • A target triplet of the form cpu-vendor-os-abi. On Linux it should also include the distribution name and release. See current_r_platform() for examples.

Details

available() caches its results in the current R session. To clear the cache restart R or set the R_VERSION_CACHE_TIMEOUT environment variable to 0.

Value

A data frame with columns version, date, semver, type, and url.

Examples


available()
available("windows")
available("macos-arm64")
available("linux-gnu-ubuntu-24.04")
available("aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04")

Current R platform

Description

current_r_platform() detects the platform of the current R version.

Usage

current_r_platform()

Details

It returns a string of the form cpu-vendor-os-abi, a target triplet, see some examples below. On Linux it also includes the distribution name and version and part of the ABI.

Examples:

Examples

current_r_platform()

Return information about Posit's (and some other) R builds for Linux

Description

Return information about Posit's (and some other) R builds for Linux

Usage

linux_distros()

Details

linux_distros() caches its results in the current R session. To clear the cache restart R or set the R_VERSION_CACHE_TIMEOUT environment variable to 0.

Value

A data frame with the following columns:

Examples


linux_distros()

Version number of R-oldrel

Description

R-oldrel is the latest version of the previous minor version. We extract version numbers from the R SVN repository tags.

Usage

r_oldrel(dots = TRUE)

Arguments

dots

Whether to use dots instead of dashes in the version number.

Value

A one row data frame, with columns ‘version’, ‘date’ and ‘nickname’.

Note

This function is superseded by resolve(): 

r_oldrel()
#> # A data frame: 1 x 5
#>   version date                nickname    semver     URL                        
#>   <chr>   <dttm>              <chr>       <pckg_vrs> <chr>                      
#> 1 4.4.3   2025-02-28 08:08:59 Trophy Case 4.4.3      https://cran.rstudio.com/s~

resolve("oldrel", platform = NA)
#> # A data frame: 1 x 6
#>   version date                nickname    semver     url                   type 
#>   <chr>   <dttm>              <chr>       <pckg_vrs> <chr>                 <chr>
#> 1 4.4.3   2025-02-28 08:08:59 Trophy Case 4.4.3      https://cran.rstudio~ oldr~

Examples


r_oldrel()

Version number of R-release

Description

The latest tag in the SVN repository (in terms of version numbers, not dates).

Usage

r_release(dots = TRUE)

Arguments

dots

Whether to use dots instead of dashes in the version number.

Value

A one row data frame, with columns ‘version’, ‘date’ and ‘nickname’.

Note

This function is superseded by resolve(): 

r_release()
#> # A data frame: 1 x 6
#>   version date                nickname          semver     URL             type 
#>   <chr>   <dttm>              <chr>             <pckg_vrs> <chr>           <chr>
#> 1 4.5.1   2025-06-13 07:12:01 Great Square Root 4.5.1      https://cran.r~ rele~

resolve("release", platform = NA)
#> # A data frame: 1 x 6
#>   version date                nickname          semver     url             type 
#>   <chr>   <dttm>              <chr>             <pckg_vrs> <chr>           <chr>
#> 1 4.5.1   2025-06-13 07:12:01 Great Square Root 4.5.1      https://cran.r~ rele~

Examples


r_release()

Latest R release with a macOS installer available for download

Description

r_release() works based on the SVN tags in the main R source code repository. However, an SVN tag does not mean that the same version is available for download. r_release_macos returns the latest version for which a macOS installer is available.

Usage

r_release_macos(arch = c("x86_64", "arm64"))

Arguments

arch

The architecture, either ‘x86_64’ or ‘arm64’.

Value

A one row data frame, with columns ‘version’, ‘date’, ‘URL’ and ‘nickname’.

Note

This function is superseded by resolve(): 

r_release_macos()
#> # A data frame: 1 x 5
#>   version date                nickname          semver     URL                  
#>   <chr>   <dttm>              <chr>             <pckg_vrs> <chr>                
#> 1 4.5.1   2025-06-13 07:12:01 Great Square Root 4.5.1      https://cran.rstudio~

resolve("release", platform = "macos")
#> # A data frame: 1 x 6
#>   version date                nickname          semver     url             type 
#>   <chr>   <dttm>              <chr>             <pckg_vrs> <chr>           <chr>
#> 1 4.5.1   2025-06-13 07:12:01 Great Square Root 4.5.1      https://cran.r~ rele~

See Also

Other R downloads: r_release_tarball(), r_release_win()

Examples


r_release()
r_release_macos()
r_release_macos(arch = "arm64")

Latest release for which a source tarball is available for download

Description

r_release() works based on the SVN tags in the main R source code repository. However, an SVN tag does not mean that the same version is available for download. r_release_tarball returns the latest version for which a source tarball is available.

Usage

r_release_tarball()

Value

A one row data frame, with columns ‘version’, ‘date’, ‘URL’ and ‘nickname’.

Note

This function is superseded by resolve(): 

r_release_tarball()
#> # A data frame: 1 x 5
#>   version date                nickname          semver     URL                  
#>   <chr>   <dttm>              <chr>             <pckg_vrs> <chr>                
#> 1 4.5.1   2025-06-13 07:12:01 Great Square Root 4.5.1      https://cran.rstudio~

resolve("release", platform = NA)
#> # A data frame: 1 x 6
#>   version date                nickname          semver     url             type 
#>   <chr>   <dttm>              <chr>             <pckg_vrs> <chr>           <chr>
#> 1 4.5.1   2025-06-13 07:12:01 Great Square Root 4.5.1      https://cran.r~ rele~

See Also

Other R downloads: r_release_macos(), r_release_win()

Examples


r_release()
r_release_tarball()

Latest R release with a Windows installer available for download

Description

r_release() works based on the SVN tags in the main R source code repository. However, an SVN tag does not mean that the same version is available for download. r_release_win returns the latest version for which a Windows installer is available.

Usage

r_release_win()

Value

A one row data frame, with columns ‘version’, ‘date’, ‘URL’ and ‘nickname’.

Note

This function is superseded by resolve(): 

r_release_win()
#> # A data frame: 1 x 5
#>   version date                nickname          semver     URL                  
#>   <chr>   <dttm>              <chr>             <pckg_vrs> <chr>                
#> 1 4.5.1   2025-06-13 07:12:01 Great Square Root 4.5.1      https://cran.rstudio~

resolve("release", platform = "windows")
#> # A data frame: 1 x 7
#>   version date                nickname          semver    url   type  rtools_url
#>   <chr>   <dttm>              <chr>             <pckg_vr> <chr> <chr> <chr>     
#> 1 4.5.1   2025-06-13 07:12:01 Great Square Root 4.5.1     http~ rele~ https://g~

See Also

Other R downloads: r_release_macos(), r_release_tarball()

Examples


r_release()
r_release_win()

Query R's past and present versions

Description

R version numbers consist of three numbers (since version 1.4.1): major, minor and patch.

Usage

r_versions(dots = TRUE)

Arguments

dots

Whether to use dots instead of dashes in the version number.

Details

We extract the version numbers from the tags in the SVN repository.

Value

A data frame with three columns: ‘version’, ‘date’ and ‘nickname’.

Examples


r_versions()

Resolve an R version specification

Description

Resolve an R version specification

Usage

resolve(version = "release", platform = current_r_platform())

Arguments

version

Symbolic version name to resolve. Possible values are

  • release: the latest release version,

  • devel: Development version of R.

  • next: The next version of R. This is R-patched if there is no ongoing release process currently. Otherwise it may be R-alpha, R-beta, or R-rc or R-prerelease.

  • oldrel: The previous version of R, not counting patch versions.

  • ⁠oldrel/<n>⁠: The n-th previous version of R, not counting patch versions.

  • x.y.z: A specific R version, e.g. 4.5.1.

  • x.y: The last patch release from a minor R branch, e.g. 4.4.

platform

Operating system version. Defaults to current_r_platform(). Possible values are:

  • NA: to get information about platform-independent release archives.

  • windows: x86_64 Windows.

  • windows-x86_64: the same.

  • windows-aarch64: aarch64 Windows.

  • macos: arm64 macOS.

  • macos-arm64: the same.

  • macos-x86_64: x86_64 macOS.

  • ⁠linux-<distro>-<release>⁠: x86_64 Linux on the given distribution and release, e.g. linux-ubuntu-22.04.

  • A target triplet of the form cpu-vendor-os-abi. On Linux it should also include the distribution name and release. See current_r_platform() for examples.

Details

resolve() caches its results in the current R session. To clear the cache restart R or set the R_VERSION_CACHE_TIMEOUT environment variable to 0.

Value

A one row data frame, with columns version, date, nickname, semver, url, type, rtools_url (only for Windows).

Examples


resolve("release", "windows")
resolve("4.4", "windows-aarch64")
resolve("oldrel", "macos")
resolve("devel", "linux-gnu-ubuntu-24.04")
resolve("devel", "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-ubuntu-22.04")

List Rtools versions

Description

List Rtools versions

Usage

rtools_versions(arch = NULL)

Arguments

arch

Architecture. Possible values are:

  • x86_64: x86_64 Windows,

  • aarch64 or arm64: aarch64 Windows. Defaults tp the current architecture on Windows, and to x86_64 on other systems.

Value

A data frame with columns

Examples


rtools_versions()
rtools_versions("aarch64")