necessary for win32 systems. I got more interested when I started thinking
about Rpvm and all the spare win32 boxes sitting around - curently this
package only works for unix/linux systems. My guess is that an awful lot
more of the R project could be made non-platform-specific if this route is
followed.
FYI: Rpvm itself is fairly platform-independent. I had a quick glance at rpvm on Win32 quite recently. It compiled fine, the only serious problem I had was at link-time due to the fact that PVM itself has no shared library that could be easily used with MinGW (talking about the official binary version). Rpvm needed hardly any touchups. Presumably compiling PVM with MinGW should solve the issue and rpvm should work almost out of the box. Actually this shows that R makes it possible for developers to 'accidentally' produce packages that work on Windows even though they were developed for unix machines ;).
Cheers, Simon
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