On Aug 4, 2012, at 01:24 , Hervé Pagès wrote:

> BTW, it's funny that the VERSION file in the R source tree says:
> 
>  hpages@latitude:~/src/R-2.16.r59963$ cat VERSION
>  2.16.0 Under development (unstable)
>  ^^^^^^

What's funny about that? We no longer display the number on startup and at some 
point we may not even use it for an actual release, but there needs to be a 
number to test "R >= 2.14.0"-style dependencies and such. 

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