Which versions of R do tidyverse packages support?
Though package-specific minimum versions of R are given in the Depends
fields of individual DESCRIPTION
files, our general policy is to support the current version, the devel version, and four previous versions of R.
Edit 2022-11-151
Over the past several years and moving forward (as described in the “Release plans” section of the R Developer Page), R version releases occur annually:
The overall release schedule is to have annual x.y.0 releases in Spring, with patch releases happening on an as-needed basis.
Thus, the official minimum supported versions of R for the tidyverse2 are as described in the table, below.
Year | Current R version | Minimum supported version |
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2019 | 3.6 | 3.2 |
2020 | 4.0 | 3.3 |
2021 | 4.1 | 3.4 |
2022 | 4.2 | 3.5 |
2023 | 4.3 | 3.6 |
2024 | 4.4 | 4.0 |
2025 | 4.5 | 4.1 |
2026 | 4.6 | 4.2 |
Tidyverse minimum R version support
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Add table with annual historic and projected R-version support. ↩︎
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Note that older versions may be supported. For example, as of 2022, the tidyverse package
Depends
field is R (>= 3.3). ↩︎