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Latest version(s) of R Studio Preview #334

Open ghost opened 7 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

During the September 20th class, Jenny reminded us to use the preview version of R Studio, and she noted that she always uses the latest preview version. I noticed that the past couple of days they released 2 new versions (1.0.22 came out Wednesday and 1.0.23 came out today). Yet R Studio didn't notice these new preview versions when I used the "Check for Updates" option.

Is it common for the preview versions to come out this frequently? How does one get a notification that there's a new preview version of R Studio - should we just check the download page on a daily basis?

jennybc commented 7 years ago

I think "Check for Updates" only consults official releases. So for those of use who run Preview, it's useless 😞.

But you're right, Preview versions are being changed constantly. And no I don't upgrade nearly that often. But I probably upgrade ... twice a month? The trigger is usually some cool thing I hear about on Twitter that reminds me to do it.

samhinshaw commented 7 years ago

There's a lot of good information on RStudio updates here! I didn't know this, but according to this:

[Check for Updates] is the most conservative method to look for updates; we post new versions to the web site frequently, but we don't advertise them to existing installations as often. (This implies that RStudio may say you're running the newest version when a newer version exists on the website!)

If you were so inclined, you could write a bash script to install the newest RStudio preview package (for example, http://www.rstudio.org/download/latest/preview/desktop/ubuntu64/rstudio-latest-amd64.deb) and throw it into a task scheduler to check every month/week.