From murdoch.duncan at gmail.com  Sun Jun 11 00:09:55 2017
From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 18:09:55 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Question about R developpment
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On 10/06/2017 2:38 PM, Morgan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a question that might not seem obvious to me.
>
> I was wondering why there was no patnership between microsoft the R core
> team and eventually other developpers to improve R in one unified version
> instead of having different teams developping their own version of R.

As far as I know, there's only one version of R currently being 
developed.  Microsoft doesn't offer anything different; they just offer 
a build of a slightly older version of base R, and a few packages that 
are not in the base version.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] Question about R developpment
Duncan Murdoch