R announce - Sep 2008 - R 2.8.0 is scheduled for October 20

This is to announce that we plan to release R version 2.8.0 on Monday,
October 20, 2008.

Release procedures start Friday, September 19. 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 Monday, September 22.

    For the Core Team
    Peter Dalgaard

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  c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K
 (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen   Denmark      Ph:  (+45) 35327918
~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk)              FAX: (+45) 35327907

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There's already an announcement about R 2.8.0, and yet there are still
no R-2.7.2 binaries (rpms) for Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.  Can the
usual responsible party get on it?  Can the system be improved to get
more timely builds out on CRAN?

Thanks,
Scott Waichler
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory