[Rd] R 3.6.3 scheduled for February 29

[Ben Bolker]

  Because it's the fifth recurrence of the date (29 February).
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance

On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 3:32 PM Abby Spurdle <spurdle.a using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Congratulations!
>
> > celebrate (beeR=TRUE, loud.music=FALSE,
>     nbeeRs=2L,
>     proportion.of.tech.talk=0.4)
>
> Why is it the 5th anniversary and the not the 20th anniversary?
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 4:58 AM Peter Dalgaard via R-devel
> <r-devel using r-project.org> wrote:
> >
> > Full schedule is available on developer.r-project.org.
> >
> > (The date is chosen to celebrate the 5th anniversary of R 1.0.0. Some irregularity may occur on the release day, since this happens to be a Saturday and the release manager is speaking at the CelebRation2020 event...)
> >
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