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R 3.0.0 Released

131 points by surajgupta 14y ago

jph98 14y ago
Release Notes - http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/src/base/NEWS.html http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/src/base/NEWS.html
- k2enemy 14y ago
  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.
  - Hansi 14y ago
    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.
    - takluyver 14y ago
      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.
      - LukeShu 14y ago
        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.
    - k2enemy 14y ago
      Interesting -- there is no such link in the page that I land on.
    - marcioaguiar 14y ago
      nothing for me too
    - pseut 14y ago
      You seem to be using http://cran.r-project.org http://cran.r-project.org (which is what's actually mirrored) and not the linked webpage.
      - Hansi 14y ago
        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.
iSnow 14y ago
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.
surajgupta 14y ago
Here's source code for the release on GitHub: https://github.com/SurajGupta/r-source https://github.com/SurajGupta/r-source The R team maintains an SVN repo, but I prefer browsing source on GitHub
georgeg 14y ago
And I wished the R main website would get a face-lift as well :)
keithpeter 14y ago
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.html#Simple-compilation 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.

R 3.0.0 Released

131 points by surajgupta 14y ago

jph98 14y ago

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

k2enemy 14y ago
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.
- Hansi 14y ago
  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.
  - takluyver 14y ago
    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.
    - LukeShu 14y ago
      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.
  - k2enemy 14y ago
    Interesting -- there is no such link in the page that I land on.
  - marcioaguiar 14y ago
    nothing for me too
  - pseut 14y ago
    You seem to be using http://cran.r-project.org http://cran.r-project.org (which is what's actually mirrored) and not the linked webpage.
    - Hansi 14y ago
      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.

iSnow 14y ago

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.

surajgupta 14y ago

Here's source code for the release on GitHub: https://github.com/SurajGupta/r-source https://github.com/SurajGupta/r-source The R team maintains an SVN repo, but I prefer browsing source on GitHub

georgeg 14y ago

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

keithpeter 14y ago

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.html#Simple-compilation 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.