I think that even though some Microsoft employees may have good intentions
Microsoft as a company can not be trusted. There will be always a danger that
they will try to create their own version of R which works only on Windows and
that will become increasingly divergent from "other" R. We witnessed such
(cursed in my opinion) attempts with their treatment of Java and Internet
Explorer. So I think that if we want to keep R as one language it is very
important that the person(s) responsible for R on Windows will have no
association with Microsoft.
Best regards,Moshe.
On Friday, 29 September 2017, 1:47:36 am GMT+10, David Smith via R-devel
<r-devel@r-project.org> wrote:
Likewise, a hearty THANK YOU from me and the rest of the team at Microsoft for
all the work you, Duncan, have put into making R available for Windows users
around the world over the past 15 years. I know it wasn't easy (Windows is not
without its quirks), but R users everywhere, ourselves included, are deeply
appreciative and have benefited greatly.
The Microsoft R team is willing and able to produce builds for R on Windows
going forward. As Duncan noted, we've been doing this already for some time for
MRAN. I'd love to hear thoughts from this community on what that might mean,
and Duncan I'll also reach out to you directly off-list.
Cheers,
# David
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Subject: [Rd] Duncan's retirement: who's taking over Rtools?
Dear dev team,
I was sorry to see the announcement of Duncan about his retirement from
maintaining the R Windows build and Rtools. Duncan, thank you incredibly much
for your 15 years of devotion and your impressive contribution to the R
community as a whole.
Thinking about the future, I wondered whether there were plans for the
succession of Duncan. Is it the intention to continue providing Rtools and a
Windows build, or are these tasks left open for anyone (possibly Microsoft
itself) to take them over? And if so, how will the decision be made on that?
Cheers
Joris
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