[R] Status of "Official" Win Binaries for 1.4.0

[Magill, Brett]

Hello Everyone,
Just a note to inquire about the status of the "official" RWin release.  I
downloaded the binaries from CRAN using the link provided by Guido Masarotto
<http://sirio.stat.unipd.it/RWin> soon after they appeared on CRAN.
However, following R help, it seems that there are some problems with that
compilation, particularly related to GRID and Lattice.  Sure enough, I tried
and R crashed.
Now, I also know that Prof. Ripley made binaries available that appear to
work just fine <http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/>.  Of course, in the
post, Prof. Ripley also referred to the "Official Release", that which would
later be posted on CRAN, as it turns out, somewhat broken.  Is there any
reason that I should not simply download the working binaries.  Are there
differences (other than the fact that it works with GRID and lattice) in the
"official" release on CRAN and Prof. Ripley's distribution?  Not being in a
hurry, should I wait to download a fixed R distro from CRAN?
Thanks in advance,
Brett Magill
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