Making R3.6.3 minimum version of R supported

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We are considering making R version 3.6.3 be the minimum version of R which is supported by DataSHIELD v6.0

What are peoples thoughts about this?

Stuart

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Hi,

R version 4.0.0 is due on 2020-04-24. So I think that requiring the latest 3.x version is reasonable.

Best Yannick

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We are considering making R version 3.6.3 be the minimum version of R which is supported by DataSHIELD v6.0

What are peoples thoughts about this?

I’m using Debian stable:

sessionInfo() R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) Running under: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)

I think maintaining backwards compatability with 3.5 would be good (and, in general, backwards compatability is good anyway).

Best wishes,

Andrei

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BTW @swheater, what requires to have the latest R version?

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Yannick,

I asked the question after Juan said he had to upgrade from R3.6.2 to R3.6.3 to get R6 working. But R6 does not seem to need R3.6.3. Still investigating…

Stuart

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We also run our Analysis clients on Debian like @asm. It would be nice if compatibility with version 3.5 would be maintained. Also a general + 1 in favor of backwards compatibility.

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We will endeavor to maintain R3.5.0 support with for DataSHIELD, and I haven’t found any explicit requirement of anything beyond R3.5.0 yet.

Stuart