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

[Martyn Plummer]

On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 10:52 +0200, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
> On 25.10.2017 10:48, "Jens Oehlschlägel" wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Just take the Rtools. Microsoft uses our toolchain as far as I know.
> Also note that we will probably continue to build Windows binaries (and 
> have never stopped doing so).

Jeroen Ooms is taking over the binary Windows builds of R from Duncan.

From a strategic viewpoint, we will need to update the toolchain at
some point, but this is not currently scheduled.

Martyn

> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> > 
> > 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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> > > 
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