Cross-building is one of those things that complicates the Windows R build process considerably and probably benefits a handful of people.

It has been pointed out that now we have build services such as Uwe's win-builder and RForge, there are easy ways to get a (checked) Windows binary of a finished R package, and it is nowadays more common to have things like a Windows Terminal Server to provide remote desktop access to a Windows mahine, or virtual machines running Windows as a guest OS.

If the need is only to cross-build packages, it would probably be easier to do so within the Unix package install system, effectively as another sub-architecture.

So this posting is an opportunity for users to make a _case_ (including offering resources) for continued support for cross-building either of R itself or of packages. Either on this list or to r-wind...@r-project.org (which goes only to the Windows' developers).

(Cross-building is currently broken in the development version of R.)

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Brian D. Ripley,                  rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
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