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 <spurdl...@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@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...) > > > > -- > > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > > Phone: (+45)38153501 > > Office: A 4.23 > > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
