Some easy way to find out what has changed would be desirable here. On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > > 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 >
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