[Rd] R on IBM AIX

[Kushal Verma]

Dear R Community,
I hope this message finds you well.
I'm part of the IBM AIX Toolbox team. For the past eight years, we have been providing R support to our customers on IBM AIX as part of our toolbox offerings. R has been an invaluable tool for our users, and the demand for it continues to grow � as you can see from the active discussions in our IBM AIX community forum<https://community.ibm.com/community/user/groups/community-home/digestviewer?CommunityKey=329e8662-cb5a-4e9e-80ee-47b1c3b5848c>.
Over the years, we have identified a small set of trivial, non-intrusive patches that are necessary to build R on AIX. These patches do not alter R's behavior on any other platform � they simply allow R to compile and run correctly in the AIX environment.
We would love to contribute these patches back to the R project so that AIX support is maintained natively, reducing the burden on our team and making R more accessible to the broader AIX user community.
We believe this aligns well with the spirit of open-source collaboration, and we are committed to working with the maintainers to ensure these changes meet the project's standards and guidelines.
We would be grateful for your guidance on the best way to submit these patches � whether through a pull request, a bug report, or any other preferred channel.
Thank you so much for your time and for the incredible work you do maintaining R. We truly appreciate the community's efforts and look forward to contributing.
Warm regards,
Kushal Verma
IBM AIX Toolbox Team



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