Has a final decision been made on the version of R to be used for the upcoming Bioconductor 3.1 release? It looks like it's on track to be R-3.2 but since that is slated for mid-April release, I wondered if it might end up being R-3.1.3 if any unexpected delays came up in the R-3.2 release schedule.
This A: Is Bioconductor 3.0 compatible with R 3.1.2? says that Bioconductor 3.0 will be compatible with "any future version of R-3.1.x" which made me think that the choice for 3.1 would be R-3.2, but then I realized that's not exactly a statement about Bioconductor 3.1.
Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere; I looked around and couldn't find anything more definite. The release schedule page still refers to Bioconductor 3.0 (though I realize it's still early days when it comes to this release).
Whenever a new minor (as in, the middle digit changes) version of R comes out, Bioconductor will be released immediately afterward and use that version.
So Bioconductor version 3.1 will use R-3.2.0. R's release schedule is online now and Bioconductor's will be available soon (within a week I'd say).
The confusing thing is that while a Bioconductor release always follows an R release, there are also Bioconductor releases that do not follow an R release. This is because both R and Bioconductor used to do releases twice a year and R switched to a yearly schedule but Bioconductor maintained its twice-yearly schedule. So the next Bioconductor release, after the upcoming one in April, will be Bioconductor 3.2 which will use R 3.2.z (the same version as used by Bioconductor 3.1).
The current release version of Bioconductor (3.0) will work with the upcoming R-3.1.3 and will be built against it, after it is available on March 9.
