Sorry if my earlier remarks were unfair to City but their request reminded me of some problems that I had with using R, similar software and the obstacles placed in my way by an IT Department many years ago. If it is of any help I have R installed on a Desktop and two laptops (running 64-bit Windows 10) and one very modest Tablet (running 32-bit Windows 10). Perhaps I have been lucky as I have not encountered any problems.
Rstudio clearly supports Windows 10 (See supported packages on https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download2/). Microsoft have "Microsoft R Open" (formerly Revolution R) available at https://mran.revolutionanalytics.com/. These are based on a fixed CRAN repository date. The version available there is said to be compatible with Windows 7.0 (SP1), 8.1, 10 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 (SP1), 2012 (64-bit versions only). John C Frain 3 Aranleigh Park Rathfarnham Dublin 14 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:fra...@tcd.ie mailto:fra...@gmail.com On 27 July 2016 at 17:09, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > Hi, > > With the caveat that I speak for myself only, a few comments: > > 1. Given that Citi appears to have been running R on Windows 7 for some > period of time, I am not sure that they are looking for reasons to deny > users access to R. They are simply looking for some indication that R will > run on Windows 10. > > 2. There is nothing presently in the relevant R for Windows FAQ: > > > https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#Does-R-run-under-Windows-Vista_003f > > that explicitly indicates that R will run on Windows 10. At some point, > presumably, that would be updated to reflect more recent experience by R > Core. > > 3. Besides Robert's comment below on his experience (n of 1), there are > other comments that I see via a Google search that would suggest that his > experience is not unique (e.g. https://rpubs.com/kartykr/rrproject) and > there are threads in the R-Help archives from last September: > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2015-September/431809.html > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2015-September/431825.html > > that also support the notion that R will run on Windows 10. > > 4. If Citi, wants to pursue a more "commercial-like" approach to paid > support for R, there are commercial versions of R available, which I shall > not mention here, but a quick Google search would avail them of more > details. > > 5. Lastly and perhaps most importantly, R is not Freeware. R (as made > available by the R Foundation) is free open source software (FOSS) and is > distributed under relevant open source licenses. The label "Freeware", > which typically refers to proprietary software, only means that the binary > application itself is free of charge. It does not mean that the source code > for the application is also available. There is a very large functional and > philosophical difference between FOSS and Freeware. > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz > > > > On Jul 27, 2016, at 9:47 AM, John C Frain <fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > When I first graduated some 50 years ago I worked in the Department of > > Finance. On small piece of my work involved getting CPI data from the CSO > > and doing some calculations. A specific person in the CSO (Central > > Statistics Office) usually supplied this information and this fact was > > always recorded on the file. On one occasion I could not contact that > > person and I visited the department library and extracted the information > > myself. When my boss saw that I had not contacted the CSO I was > instructed > > to contact them and repeat the calculation. It was explained to me that > if > > I contacted the CSO we could blame someone outside the Department of > > Finance if they supplied the information. > > > > It appears that Citi Architecture & Technology Engineering are behaving > in > > a similar way. Are they trying to find some excuse to deny their users > > access to R on the grounds that it is not "properly" supported. This does > > happen in large organisations. > > > > If any one knows of some organisation that is willing to provide support > to > > Citi (for a respectable fee) there might be a bit of money to be made. > > > > John C Frain > > 3 Aranleigh Park > > Rathfarnham > > Dublin 14 > > Ireland > > www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html > > mailto:fra...@tcd.ie > > mailto:fra...@gmail.com > > > > On 26 July 2016 at 23:49, Robert Baer <rb...@atsu.edu> wrote: > > > >> Runs fine on Windows 10 for me. > >> > >> > >> On 7/25/2016 7:18 AM, Ramar, Rohini wrote: > >> > >>> Hello Team, > >>> > >>> We are, Citi Application Readiness Team, need your assistance in order > to > >>> gather info about below application compatibility and support for Win > 10 as > >>> part of Window 10 Readiness initiative. CITI Bank has been using below > >>> "FreeWare R Statistical Environment v3.2.2" software products > currently on > >>> Win 7 operating system. > >>> > >>> We would like to know whether the below listed application is > compatible > >>> and supported even for Win 10 (64 Bit) or is there any other higher > version > >>> of application which would be compatible for Win10. If you have not > tested > >>> for Win 10, could you please provide us with a tentative date by when > we > >>> can reach you. > >>> > >>> Application Name : FreeWare R Statistical Environment v3.2.2 > >>> > >>> > >>> Note: Kindly re-direct this email to appropriate team if we reached you > >>> wrongly. > >>> > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Rohini R > >>> Citi Architecture & Technology Engineering > >>> Client Computing > >>> Direct Phone #:+91 22 3346 1497 > >>> Email ID: rohini.ra...@citi.com<mailto:rohini.ra...@citi.com> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
