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All R version releases from 2.14.0 onward have [[Code name|codenames]] that make reference to [[Peanuts]] comics and films.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Monkman |first=Martin |url=https://bookdown.org/martin_monkman/DataScienceResources_book/r-release-names.html |title=Chapter 5 R Release Names {{!}} Data Science with R: A Resource Compendium}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=McGowan |first=Lucy D’Agostino |date=2017-09-28 |title=R release names |url=https://livefreeordichotomize.com/posts/2017-09-28-r-release-names/index.html |access-date=2024-04-07 |website=livefreeordichotomize.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=r-hub/rversions |date=2024-02-29 |url=https://github.com/r-hub/rversions |access-date=2024-04-07 |publisher=The R-hub project of the R Consortium}}</ref>

In 2018, core R developer [[Peter Dalgaard]] presented a history of R releases since 1997.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Dalgaard |first=Peter |date=2018-07-15 |title=What's in a name? 20 years of R release management |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1vTSdRolgI |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=[[YouTube]] |format=video}}</ref> Some notable early releases before the named releases include the following:

* Version 1.0.0, released on 29 February 2000 (2000-02-29), a [[Leap days|leap day]]

* Version 2.0.0, released on 4 October 2004 (2004-10-04), "which at least had a nice ring to it"<ref name=":2" />

The idea of naming R version releases was inspired by the naming system for [[Debian version history|Debian]] and [[Ubuntu version history|Ubuntu]] version naming systemversions. Dalgaard also noted thatan anotheradditional reason for the use of Peanuts references forin R codenamescodenames—the ishumorous because,observation that "everyone in statistics is a [[P-value|P-nut]]"."<ref name=":2" />

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