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\...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
