[Rd] GCC update in Rtools?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 23/06/2015 10:36 AM, Avraham Adler wrote:
> Hello.
>
> There was a lot of discussion in March about the difficulties in
> having Rtools use a more recent version of GCC than 4.6.3. May we know
> if there has been any progress since then, or has dveleopment/testing
> been put on hold for the time being?

A volunteer has come forward to try to solve the outstanding issues 
(which were listed at 
https://rawgit.com/kevinushey/RToolsToolchainUpdate/master/mingwnotes.html). 
I haven't heard if any progress has been made.

Duncan Murdoch