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

[Andrew Robbins]

Just to clarify because it appears that Microsoft Outlook mangled my 
outbound email address (yes, I know, I know), I can be reached at andrew 
at robbinsa dot me

Apologies for the double post,
-Andrew

On 2026-04-29 20:40, andrew--- via R-devel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm somewhat familiar with the MXE/rtools codebase myself (and 
> submitted a few patches a year or two back) and am happy to help out 
> with maintenance if desired. I've also been messing around with the 
> extremely-early-beta gcc WoA patches that are (allegedly) supposed to 
> hit with gcc 17 and am looking forward to being able to get aarch64-win 
> out of the perpetual-beta stage!
> 
> Feel free to reach out at any time.
> 
> -Andrew
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: R-devel <r-devel-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Mossa Merhi 
> Reimert via R-devel <r-devel using r-project.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 4:22 PM
> To: Avraham Adler <avraham.adler using gmail.com>; R-devel 
> <r-devel using r-project.org>
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> Subject: Re: [Rd] Who will be assuming the lead for Rtools and other 
> Windows-related development?
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from Outlook for Mac
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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
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> To: R-devel <r-devel using r-project.org>
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> Cc: r-sig-windows using r-project.org <r-sig-windows using r-project.org>
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> 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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