Martyn Plummer writes in r-announce:
 > A precompiled "RPM" binary of R-0.50.a1 is now available on CRAN
for
 > installation on Linux systems which use the RedHat Package
 > Manager
Before we get to may versions floating about ... 
I had intended that these "a1", "a2" ... releases be hacker
releases
which will be followed by a R-0.50.stable release when the (worst)
problems are sorted out.  Thats why I announced to "r-devel" rather
than "r-announce".
(Note this is information rather than any kind of policy statement,
you are of course free to do whatever you like with R)
	Ross
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