The daily snapshots of R (http://www.R-project.org/) *DEVELOPMENT* sources are provided by automated jobs, run daily. Do use CRAN (mirrors!) http://CRAN.R-project.org/ to download *released* versions of R, and for all binary (or "executable", "ready to use", ...) versions of R. Note that the date on the files is the date of the last SVN revision of that development branch. Particularly, for R-patched, this can well be more than a day earlier than the creation date of the file. Please e-mail me directly if you detect problems with these files (but maybe double check if there really *is* a problem :-). Martin Maechler @ ETH Zurich [google my address if needed]