[R-SIG-Mac] Problems with Rmpi

[Ken Beath]

> On 22 Jan 2026, at 7:25 pm, Prof Brian Ripley <ripleybd using icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> On 22/01/2026 06:55, Ken Beath wrote:
>> I’ve received an e-mail from Kurt Hornik, that they are going to remove the doRNG package because of build problems.
> 
> That is not what his message says -- the biggest issue is that it is unmaintained (except for multiple patches by CRAN) and the message asked for a volunteer maintainer.
> 

He said two things, that it would be better with an other maintainer and that it needs to have issues fixed. I was obviously referring to the second issue, which is caused by failure of Rmpi to build.

Ken