[R-pkg-devel] Future location of Rtools?

["Jens Oehlschlägel"]

Good morning, 

Duncan has announced that he steps back from the maintenance of Rtools. 
Where will I find the new Rtools toolchain that complements Microsofts R-version?

Kind regards

Jens


> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. September 2017 um 12:27 Uhr
> Von: "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> An: r-announce at r-project.org
> Betreff: Re: [R] R 3.4.2 is released
>
> I've just finished the Windows build of R 3.4.2.  It will make it to 
> CRAN and its mirrors over the next few hours.
> 
> This is the last binary release that I will be producing.  I've been 
> building them for about 15 years, and it's time to retire.  Builds using 
> different tools and scripts are available from 
> https://mran.microsoft.com/download/.  I'll be putting my own scripts on 
> CRAN soon in case anyone wants to duplicate them.
> 
> Nightly builds of R-patched and R-devel will continue to run on 
> autopilot for the time being, without maintenance.
> 
> I will also be retiring from maintenance of the Rtools collection.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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