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Clarify versioning policy #701

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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 2022-11-15[^1]**
This policy applies to all packages that we support, i.e. as well as all packages in the tidyverse, it also applies the infrastructure packages that we maintain in [r-lib](https://github.com/r-lib).
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Over the past several years and moving forward (as described in the "Release plans" section of the [R Developer Page](https://developer.r-project.org/)), R version releases occur annually:

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[^1]: Add table with annual historic and projected R-version support.
[^1]: Note that we only update the required version on package release, so you may see older versions listed in published CRAN packages.
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[^2]: Note that older versions *may* be supported. For example, as of 2022, the [tidyverse package `Depends` field](https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyverse/blob/aeabcde8c6ae435f16b5173682d5667d292829fb/DESCRIPTION#LL17-L18) is R (\>= 3.3).
### Edit history

* 2022-11-15: Added table with annual historic and projected R-version support.
* 2024-07-03: Clarified that the policy also applies to r-lib.