[R] When the "official" copy will be corrected?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, cjosephlu wrote:

> Since I just experienced another crash on R 1.4.0 for Windows
> (this time is on plot(x, y) after using gls() of package nlme) and
> am told (thanks Andy) that is might due to the "official" version
> of binary copy.
> I am also told that
> "The one provided by Prof. Ripley is known to work.
> This has been asked several times on the list."
>
> Then, I am wondering when the "official" copy will be corrected?

You'll have to ask the Windows maintainer, Guido Masarotto.  The binaries
are mirrored from his site.

> Are we supposed to "trust" the official version?

R says:

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

> This actually bothers me somehow since I instructed all students
> in my class to install the "official" copy when it came out 3 days
> later than Prof. Ripley's version.

That's not the correct time interval ... and it's not my version.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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