On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 10:52 +0200, Uwe Ligges wrote: > > On 25.10.2017 10:48, "Jens Oehlschlägel" wrote: > > Good morning, > > > > Duncan has announced that he steps back from the maintenance of Rtools. > > Where will I find the new Rtools toolchain that complements Microsofts > > R-version? > > Just take the Rtools. Microsoft uses our toolchain as far as I know. > Also note that we will probably continue to build Windows binaries (and > have never stopped doing so).
Jeroen Ooms is taking over the binary Windows builds of R from Duncan. From a strategic viewpoint, we will need to update the toolchain at some point, but this is not currently scheduled. Martyn > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > > > > Kind regards > > > > Jens > > > > > > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. September 2017 um 12:27 Uhr > > > Von: "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> > > > An: r-annou...@r-project.org > > > Betreff: Re: [R] R 3.4.2 is released > > > > > > I've just finished the Windows build of R 3.4.2. It will make it to > > > CRAN and its mirrors over the next few hours. > > > > > > This is the last binary release that I will be producing. I've been > > > building them for about 15 years, and it's time to retire. Builds using > > > different tools and scripts are available from > > > https://mran.microsoft.com/download/. I'll be putting my own scripts on > > > CRAN soon in case anyone wants to duplicate them. > > > > > > Nightly builds of R-patched and R-devel will continue to run on > > > autopilot for the time being, without maintenance. > > > > > > I will also be retiring from maintenance of the Rtools collection. > > > > > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > r-annou...@r-project.org mailing list > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-announce > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
