On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 16/09/2010 3:29 PM, Kevin Wright wrote: >> >> Revolution has given back in a number of ways: supporting the useR >> conference, assisting R core with getting R to build on 64-bit Windows >> systems, bug fixes, releasing some open source packages, a very fine blog >> from which I have learned some quite useful information, and helping R gain >> some needed credibility in the media and business worlds. Not to mention >> the stainless steel water bottle they handed out at useR. :-) > > Most of those I agree with, but I think it was more R core (in particular > Brian Ripley) who got R to build on 64-bit Windows systems. I helped > Revolution to understand what he had done.
Duncan's correct: Brian Ripley deserves a lot more credit than he often gets for making R build on many systems, including port of the engine to be 64-bit clean. Duncan provided invaluable pointers to the Revolution developers to get our 64-bit Windows distribution running. (Now that mingcw supports 64-bit R, and Brian's role in making that happen, things are a lot easier on our end too. Thanks, again.) I did want to add to Kevin's words also (thanks, Kevin): supporting and growing the R community is a big goal of ours. A lot of it happens behind the scenes, for example helping get local R user groups up and running (there are now more than 40, from just a couple of formal groups as little as a year ago), and sponsoring students doing R development. I hope our contributions in these other ways help to benefit the R community as a whole. # David Smith -- David M Smith <da...@revolutionanalytics.com> VP of Marketing, Revolution Analytics http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com Tel: +1 (650) 330-0553 x205 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
