Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

rversions 3.0.02025-10-09

rversions now uses R-hub’s R version API. The r_oldrel(), r_release(), r_release_macos(), r_release_tarball(), and r_release_win() functions are now superseded by the new resolve() function, see their manual pages.

• New function resolve() to resolve an R version specification.

• New function available() to list available R builds for a platform.

• New function linux_distros() to list Linux distributions supported by Posit or R-hub.

• New function rtools_versions() to list Rtools versions.

• New utility function current_r_platform() to look up the current platform, including the distribution and release on Linux.

rversions 2.1.22022-08-31

No user visible changes.

rversions 2.1.12021-05-31

No user visible changes.

rversions 2.1.02021-05-24

• r_release_macos() is now correct again for R 4.1.0.

rversions 2.0.22020-05-25

• r_release_tarball() now has the correct URL for R 4.x.x.

rversions 2.0.12019-12-03

• The date columns of all data.frames is now POSIXt, POSIXct, not POSIXlt, so you can convert the data.frames with tibble::as_tibble() directly (#20, @espinielli).

rversions 2.0.02019-05-09

Breaking change

• r_versions() and all other functions now parse the date, so the date column is a POSIXt, not a character (#13).

rversions 1.1.02019-04-11

• All function outputs now also have a column with version nickname(s).

• R versions are now cached within each R session (@richfitz, #6).

rversions 1.0.32016-08-02

• Use xml2::xml_find_first instead of deprecated xml2::xml_find_one (Thanks to @jimhester)

rversions 1.0.22015-07-13

• Explicit import from base packages

rversions 1.0.12015-06-06

• Rewritten using xml2 and curl instead of XML and RCurl (Thanks to @jeroenooms)

rversions 1.0.02015-04-22

First released version.