On Apr 30, 2010, at 4:20 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > We are planning to phase in some major changes to the R build process on > Windows shortly, so expect problems and temporary unavailability of binary > builds of R and of packages, and if you are building from sources, check out > the latest version of the R-admin manual (in the sources) for the current > state. >
To make sure no one has an excuse for not reading the current manuals - they are available (built nightly) at http://r.research.att.com/man/ Cheers, Simon > The planned changes are > > - to move the 32-bit builds to MinGW's recent release of gcc 4.5.0 (but with > static linking of the Fortran and C++ runtimes: dynamic linking of C++ in > packages crashes R). > > - to merge the 32-bit and 64-bit builds into a single installer and (for at > least 98% of CRAN) a single binary for each package. > > NB: R-devel is not due for release until ca October and changes such as this > are done early in the development cycle to allow plenty of time for them to > be bedded down. Please do take seriously the description as > > R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-04-29 r51864) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
