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# R Release Names
The most-asked question about R? "Why do R releases have _unusual_ names?"
Answer: "All of the release names are references to Peanuts strips/films."
In this blog post, Lucy D'Agostino McGowan cataloged those that had been released to that point (2017-07-28, up to 3.5.1).
* ["R release names"](https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2017/09/28/r-release-names/)
Releases since 2017-07-28:
* R 4.0.5 "Shake and Throw" (original strip: [1978-07-30](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1978/07/30)) (R version release date: 2021-03-31)
- [HTTP response status code: 405 Method Not Allowed](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/405)
* R 4.0.4 "Lost Library Book" (original strip: [1959-03-02](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1959/03/02)) (R version release date: 2021-02-15)
- Charlie Brown's lost library book was a weekday series that ran for 11 strips, starting on [1959-03-02](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1959/03/02), running until [1959-03-13] (https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1959/03/13)
- The strips were rerun [2006-02-27](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2006/02/27) through [2006-03-10](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2006/03/10)
- [HTTP response status code: 404 Not Found](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/404)
- Peter Dalgaard via twitter pointed out the pun inherent in the name (and the naming of R 4.0.3):
* R 4.0.3 ["Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out"](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1972/10/23) (original strip: 1972-10-23) (R version release date: 2020-10-10)
- _The Six Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out_ is detailed at the [Bunny Wunny entry at the Peanuts Wiki](https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/Bunny_Wunny)
- [HTTP response status code: 403 Forbidden](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/403)
* R 4.0.2 ["Taking Off Again"](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1962/04/14) (original strip: 1962-04-14) (R version release date: 2020-06-22)—two weeks after R 4.0.1 was released, R 4.0.2 was released with a few bug fixes
* R 4.0.1 ["See Things Now"](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1962/02/06) (original strip: 1962-02-06) (R version release date: 2020-06-06)
* R 4.0.0 ["Arbor Day"](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1970/04/24) (original strip: 1970-04-24) (R version release date: 2020-04-24)
- The 1976 TV special [_It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown_](https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/It%27s_Arbor_Day,_Charlie_Brown?fbclid=IwAR1LPS3ksgWm-MZlWZ0YicwyOCzOJK94LDfvZFibaScVrtaLY4O6ZrWzEVE)
* R 3.6.3 ["Holding the Windsock"](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2000/02/29) (original strip: 2000-02-29—this date also saw the release of R 1.0.0!) (R version release date: 2020-02-29)
- Peter Dalgaard's [original announcement of the release of R-1.0.0 to stat.ethz.ch](https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2000/000127.html)
* R 3.6.2 ["Dark and Stormy Night"](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1965/07/12) (original strip: 1965-07-12) (R version release date: 2019-12-12)
- the first appearance was the beginning of a running storyline that ran for the five subsequent strips (through 1965-07-17)
- it is a recurring theme in Snoopy's writings; Lucy points this out in the strip from [1997-04-12](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1997/04/22)
- there are a few good puns to be made, such as [1983-05-02](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1983/05/02)
- a complete story was published in 1971 as _Snoopy and the Dark and Stormy Night_ (Holt, Rinehart & Winston); [summary here](http://curiouspages.blogspot.com/2010/02/snoopy-and-it-was-dark-and-stormy-night.html); [full text here](https://mikeconley.ca/blog/2010/02/13/it-was-a-dark-and-stormy-night/)
- an in-depth assessment of Snoopy's use of "It was a dark and stormy night" can be found at tvtropes, under ["It Was a Dark and Stormy Night"](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItWasADarkAndStormyNight); see the "Newspaper Comics" folder
- The literary cliche ["It was a dark and stormy night" has its own wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night)
* R 3.6.1 ["Action of the Toes"](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1971/03/22) (original strip: 1971-03-22) (R version release date: 2019-07-05)
* R 3.6.0 ["Planting of a Tree"](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1963/03/03) (original strip: 1963-03-03) (R version release date: 2019-04-26)
* R 3.5.3 ["Great Truth"](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1959/03/11) (original strip: 1959-03-11) (R version release date: 2019-03-11)
* R 3.5.2 ["Eggshell Igloos"](https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1960/01/25) (original strip: 1960-01-25) (R version release date: 2018-12-20)
(Another source for the strips is the [peanuts.fandom.com comics archive](https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Comic_strips))
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