NEWS

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rversions 3.0.0.9000

rversions 3.0.0 (2025-10-09)

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 The r_oldrel(), r_release(), r_release_macos(), r_release_tarball(), and r_release_win() functions are now superseded by the new resolve() function, see their manual pages.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 2.1.2 (2022-08-31)

No user visible changes.

rversions 2.1.1 (2021-05-31)

No user visible changes.

rversions 2.1.0 (2021-05-24)

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

rversions 2.0.2 (2020-05-25)

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

rversions 2.0.1 (2019-12-03)

• 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 2.0.0 (2019-05-09)

Breaking change

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

rversions 1.1.0 (2019-04-11)

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

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

rversions 1.0.3 (2016-08-02)

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

rversions 1.0.2 (2015-07-13)

• Explicit import from base packages

rversions 1.0.1 (2015-06-06)

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

rversions 1.0.0 (2015-04-22)

First released version.