Version number of R-release — r

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

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This function is superseded by resolve():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()
#> # A data frame: 1 × 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…