[R] R 2.8.1 is scheduled for December 22

[Peter Dalgaard]

This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.8.1 on Monday,
December 22, 2008.

Release procedures start Friday, December 12.

Those directly involved should review the generic schedule at 
http://developer.r-project.org/release-checklist.html

The source tarballs will be made available daily (barring build
troubles) and the tarballs can be picked up at

http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/

a little later.

Binary builds are expected to appear starting Monday 15 at the latest.

	For the Core Team
	Peter Dalgaard


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