I concur with Moshe. David and his team have done great thing
for R, but a lion will not become a vegetarian. I think that any
reasonable reading of Microsoft's history will supports that
perspective. However, this is a fairly well documented phenomenon far
beyond Microsoft. Jean Tiro
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 witne
David,
I think ideally we want to appoint a single person to take primary
responsibility for the Windows builds. We are currently discussing this
within R Core.
We also recognize that Microsoft is a stakeholder in R for Windows. The
same is true of other members of the R Consortium. Going forward
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:47 AM, David Smith via R-devel
wrote:
> 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 migh
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Joris Meys wrote:
> 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
>
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 includ
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
> Lukas Stadler
> on Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:36:15 +0200 writes:
> Hi,
> there was a change concerning logical operations about a year ago:
>
https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/9e19d3e3dd5f657b5cfefe562bdd7ede2e2b8786
> It's related to a discussion on this list:
>
