From avraham.adler at gmail.com  Thu Sep 28 17:57:22 2017
From: avraham.adler at gmail.com (Avraham Adler)
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:57:22 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Duncan's retirement: who's taking over Rtools?
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:47 AM, David Smith via R-devel
<r-devel at r-project.org> wrote:
> The Microsoft R team is willing and able to produce builds for R on Windows going forward. As Duncan noted, we've been doing this already for some time for MRAN. I'd love to hear thoughts from this community on what that might mean, and Duncan I'll also reach out to you directly off-list.

Hi, David.

If the Microsoft R team takes over that responsibility, will they also
take over the testing and maintenance of the scripts for building R
from source on Windows as Duncan has?

Thanks,

Avi



[Rd] Duncan's retirement: who's taking over Rtools?
Avraham Adler