{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5809","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/travis-ci/travis-ci","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5809/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5809/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5809/events","html_url":"https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5809","id":142667594,"number":5809,"title":"R-devel in 4 weeks prior to new R release points to the future R-devel","user":{"login":"lcolladotor","id":2288213,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2288213?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor","html_url":"https://github.com/lcolladotor","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/travis-ci/travis-ci/labels/community:r","name":"community:r","color":"bfdadc"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":10,"created_at":"2016-03-22T14:31:26Z","updated_at":"2016-03-22T20:16:30Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hi,\r\n\r\nI was expecting that `r: devel` (using [`language: r`](https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/languages/r)) would point right now to R 3.3.0 instead of 3.4.0 given that it's the current R-devel and will be released in April this year as shown at https://developer.r-project.org/\r\n\r\n> The schedule for 3.3.0 is as follows\r\n> \r\n> Monday 2016-03-14: START\r\n> Thursday 2016-03-17: GRAND-FEATURE FREEZE (3.3.0 alpha)\r\n> Thursday 2016-03-31: FEATURE FREEZE (3.3.0 beta)\r\n> Thursday 2016-04-07: CODE FREEZE (3.3.0 RC)\r\n> Monday 2016-04-11: PRERELEASE\r\n> Thursday 2016-04-14: RELEASE (3.3.0)\r\n\r\nHowever, it also says `Prerelease source tarballs (and binaries for some platforms) are being made available during the 4 weeks until the release.` which means starting on the week of March 21st (so now). \r\n\r\nSo, my assumption was that `r: devel` would keep pointing to R 3.3.0 until April 14th. Is that the intended behavior? \r\n\r\nHowever with R 3.3.0 being pre-released 4 weeks in advance, I guess that the new R-devel (3.4.0) also starts to get distributed 4 weeks in advance. And that could be fine if the behavior of `r: devel` is to stay in line with the fine details of R release cycles. If this is the intended behavior, maybe adding a small note at https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/languages/r would be good.\r\n\r\nI'll switch to specifying the actual R version in my Travis builds for now.\r\n\r\nThanks,\r\nLeo\r\n\r\nPS I noticed this because https://travis-ci.org/leekgroup/derfinderPlot/builds/117500745 failed and @jimhester made [me realize](https://twitter.com/the_belal/status/712271855164465152) that the build was running on R 3.4.0. \r\n\r\nAs stated on the docs, also @craigcitro and @hadley."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/comments/200002192","html_url":"https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5809#issuecomment-200002192","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5809","id":200002192,"user":{"login":"lcolladotor","id":2288213,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2288213?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor","html_url":"https://github.com/lcolladotor","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lcolladotor/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-03-22T20:16:30Z","updated_at":"2016-03-22T20:16:30Z","body":"Actually, that might have been the cache packages working. I see that you fixed this issue with BiocInstaller version 1.21.4.\r\n\r\n![screen shot 2016-03-22 at 4 15 02 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2288213/13966538/4d5c7f1a-f049-11e5-9899-5b035f3b6b75.png)\r\nTaken from http://bioconductor.org/developers/svnlog/\r\n\r\nCurrently, https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/trunk/madman/Rpacks/BiocInstaller/DESCRIPTION reads:\r\n\r\n```\r\nPackage: BiocInstaller\r\nTitle: Install/Update Bioconductor, CRAN, and github Packages\r\nDescription: This package is used to install and update Bioconductor,\r\n    CRAN, and (some) github packages.\r\nVersion: 1.21.4\r\nAuthor: Dan Tenenbaum and Biocore Team\r\nMaintainer: Bioconductor Package Maintainer <maintainer@bioconductor.org>\r\nbiocViews: Infrastructure\r\nDepends: R (>= 3.3.0)\r\nSuggests: devtools, RUnit, BiocGenerics\r\nLicense: Artistic-2.0\r\n```"}}