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The table in the Milestones section show R version with format x.y, e.g. R 3.6. However, except for some of the historical releases, the formal version format is x.y.z, e.g. R 3.6.0. The dates associated with each entry appears to point to when the x.y.0 release was done. Should the 'Release' version be updated to use x.y.0 format?

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Yeah 86.2.214.41 (talk) 05:33, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

footnote numbering

The first footnote I see is #6. What happened to #1-#5? Socialresearch (talk) 15:10, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Socialresearch: They're in the infobox. – Joe (talk) 16:05, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, okay, thanks. Socialresearch (talk) 22:06, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

useR! conference list

I had just done some work to try to improve the useR! section but I am not sure if the conference needs so much space, especially with the list of previous venues. The initial addition of the useR! section did not include the list[1] and when it was added, it was shorter only listing conferences up until 2012.[2] Since the article does not highlight specific useR! conferences, it might be best to remove the list entirely. What do you all think? Moon motif (talk) 10:43, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Separating out Milestones section content?

Should the content of the Milestones section be separated out? I feel like parts of it are more suited to the History section like R becoming part of the official GNU project in release 0.60 or the Features section like the pipe operator |> and anonymous function shortcut syntax in release 4.1.0. This is even more opinion-based but some of the included milestones don't seem like actual milestones? I really don't mean to offend anyone but including release 3.3.3's deprecation of Windows XP support or 2.11's 64-bit Windows support does not seem historic? (I had not heard of R then so I do not know for sure but it seems normal to deprecate old operating systems that have been succeeded and support new architectures) Considering how much real estate the Milestones section takes up, I'm unsure of how to navigate this. Also, I don't feel comfortable being single judge to decide what releases to or not to keep. Moon motif (talk) 07:58, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I support trimming it and moving it to the history section. The selection of things to include seems like blatant original research right now. We should be basing it on what changes are covered in sources beyond the R changelog. – Joe (talk) 08:27, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Add .rhistory

.rhistory is another filetype that stores the history of the code executed in a R session. I want to add it to the file types list but I am new to Wikipedia and I don't know how. AHWikipedian (talk) 11:55, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]