[Fedora-r-devel-list] R2spec and version number

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 06/03/2009 12:50 PM, Martyn Plummer wrote:

> For R, there is no difference between "-" and "." in package version
> numbers. Here is what the R Extension manual says:
> 
> "The version is a sequence of at least two (and usually three)
> non-negative integers separated by single ‘.’ or ‘-’ characters. The
> canonical form is as shown in the example [0.5-1 - Martyn], and a
> version such as ‘0.01’ or ‘0.01.0’ will be handled as if it were
> ‘0.1-0’."
> 
> So you should just replace dashes with dots.

Based on that, I'd say we should be embedding the whole version (with
dot, not dash). Pretty much every R package is going to need to be fixed
for this, include the core R.

~spot