I should clarify that `withdrawing support' does not mean that it will no longer work with Win95/98/ME, just that we will no longer attempt to ensure that it does.
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Simon Fear wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley writes: > > > > > If you insist on using a long-obselete OS, please help us continue ot > > support it by supplying patches and workarounds. I think we (like > > Microsoft) are going to have to think seriously about withdrawing > > support > > from non-NT-based versions of Windows fairly soon. > > > > Believe me, using Win98 is NOT my choice. I would only ever use > Unix/Linux. > Are there other statisticians similarly limited? > > I am already sticking my neck out quite a lot using R in an industry > obsessed > with SAS. If I tell IT I'm going to use a nonstandard shell, emacs, ess, > bash, and CygWin as well as R they'll probably revoke my username. > > Still, I for one can understand withdrawing support for old OSs and if I > have > to stick with 1.7.1 as being the last version to work with Win98 so be > it - > it as, after all, as is, the most amazing piece of software any > statistician > could have wished for. > > > Simon Fear > Senior Statistician > Syne qua non Ltd > Tel: +44 (0) 1379 644449 > Fax: +44 (0) 1379 644445 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http://www.synequanon.com > > Number of attachments included with this message: 0 > > This message (and any associated files) is confidential and > contains information which may be legally privileged. It is > intended for the stated addressee(s) only. Access to this > email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the > intended addressee, any action taken (or not taken) in > reliance on it, or any disclosure or copying of the contents of > it is unauthorised and unlawful. If you are not the addressee, > please inform the sender immediately and delete the email > from your system. > > This message and any associated attachments have been > checked for viruses using an internationally recognised virus > detection process. However, Internet communications cannot > be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could > be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or > incomplete. Therefore, we do not accept responsibility for any > errors or omissions that are present in this message, or any > attachment, that have arisen as a result of e-mail transmission. > If verification is required, please request a hard-copy version. > Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Syne qua non. > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help