Latest release for which a source tarball is available for download

r_release() works based on the SVN tags in the main R source code repository. However, an SVN tag does not mean that the same version is available for download. r_release_tarball returns the latest version for which a source tarball is available.

r_release_tarball()

Value

A one row data frame, with columns ‘version’, ‘date’, ‘URL’ and ‘nickname’.

See also

Other R downloads: r_release_macos(), r_release_win()

Examples

r_release()
#>     version                date          nickname
#> 140   4.5.1 2025-06-13 07:12:01 Great Square Root
r_release_tarball()
#>     version                date
#> 140   4.5.1 2025-06-13 07:12:01
#>                                                        URL          nickname
#> 140 https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.5.1.tar.gz Great Square Root