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 wrote:
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> Congratulations!
>
> > celebrate (beeR=TRUE, loud.music=FALSE,
> nbeeRs=2L,
> proportion.of.tech.talk=0.4)
>
> Why
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
wrote:
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> Full schedule is available on developer.r-project.org.
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, P
