[Rd] Rtools and R 4.0.0?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 02/04/2020 05:35, Kevin Ushey wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Has a decision been made yet as to whether R 4.0.0 on Windows is going
> to be built using the new gcc8 toolchain (described at
> https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/testing/rtools40.html)?

Short answer: 'no'.

>>From the sidelines, I can see that the toolchain is being used to
> build and test packages on CRAN; if there are any remaining issues
> that I can help to try and run down (either in R or any CRAN packages)
> I'd be happy to try and help.

It is still under consideration, but resource constraints are biting 
hard as people's lives get more complicated.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley using stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford