R 2.9.0 is scheduled for April 17

[Peter Dalgaard]

This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.8.0 on Friday,
April 17, 2009.

Release procedures start Tuesday March 17. The detailed schedule can
be found on http://developer.r-project.org

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 Friday, March 20.

    For the Core Team
    Peter Dalgaard


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