R-oldrel is the latest version of the previous minor version. We extract version numbers from the R SVN repository tags.
r_oldrel(dots = TRUE)A one row data frame, with columns ‘version’, ‘date’ and ‘nickname’.
This function is superseded by resolve():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~r_oldrel()
#> # A data frame: 1 × 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…