[Rd] Who will be assuming the lead for Rtools and other Windows-related development?

[Mossa Merhi Reimert]

The passing of Tomas Kalibera is indeed a shock and a loss to all of us, and the entirety of the R community, even further.  I used to read his blogposts on (now) https://blog.r-project.org/ and they were a gift.

On the concern you bring up, I do remember Jeroen Ooms being the maintainer of Rtools.
And from one day to another, this changed. I never saw an explanation of this decision,
or anything. Maybe R-Core could ask Jeroen Ooms to do this again?

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From: R-devel <r-devel-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Avraham Adler <avraham.adler using gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, 29 April 2026 at 20.45
To: R-devel <r-devel using r-project.org>
Cc: r-sig-windows using r-project.org <r-sig-windows using r-project.org>
Subject: [Rd] Who will be assuming the lead for Rtools and other Windows-related development?

Hello.

Tomas Kalibera's passing is tragic on many levels. He was
young�younger than most of us long-time members of this list, I
fear�leaving a family and children bereft. He leaves many friends;
some personal, some virtual. And practically, he leaves a hole in
R-core, especially when it comes to Windows-related development,
maintenance, and debugging.

I apologize if this is too soon, but with his tragic passing, has
R-core decided on who will be the point-person/lead maintainer for
Rtools and other Windows-related issues?

Thank you,

Avi

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