[Rd] 32/64-bit Windows builds for R-devel

[Prof Brian Ripley]

We now have the integrated 32/64-bit installer for R-devel available from 
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html , and binary builds of 
almost all the CRAN packages from CRAN or CRAN extras (and BioC 2.7 has a 
fairly complete 32/64-bit repository).  There is also a win-builder service 
available for R-devel.

These are built with different toolchains from R 2.11.x, using gcc 4.5.0 for 
32-bit and 4.5.1 without leading underscores for 64-bit.

We intend now to stop work on 64-bit Windows builds for 2.11.x: automated 
updates to the repositories will still be done, but no more manual updates. 
People using 64-bit Windows builds of R are advised to migrate to an R-devel 
snapshot.

Because of the volunteers' vacations, there will be minimal support for 
Windows' binary packages for the next month and in particular package updates 
may be delayed.

Some packages still need updates (apart from those already updated on 
CRAN extras) for use on Windows with R-devel, notably

lossDev mvabund phylobase RInside Rserve xlsReadWrite

Brian Ripley

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