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

2017-09-28 Thread David Smith via R-devel
Likewise, a hearty THANK YOU from me and the rest of the team at Microsoft for all the work you, Duncan, have put into making R available for Windows users around the world over the past 15 years. I know it wasn't easy (Windows is not without its quirks), but R users everywhere, ourselves includ

Re: [Rd] MKL Acceleration encouraging; need adjust package builds?

2015-11-23 Thread David Smith
into BLAS endpoints, so you won't see benefits in all cases. # David Smith -- David M Smith R Community Lead, Revolution Analytics (a Microsoft company)  Tel: +1 (312) 9205766 (Chicago IL, USA) Twitter: @revodavid | Blog:  http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com We are hiring engineers for R

Re: [Rd] download.file() on ftp URL fails in windows with default download method

2015-08-12 Thread David Smith
We were also able to reproduce the issue on Windows Server 2012. If there's anything we can do to help please let me know; Elliot Waingold (CC'd here) can provide access to the VM we used for testing if that's of any help. # David Smith -- David M Smith R Community Lead, Revol

Re: [Rd] Revolutions Blog: January 2014 roundup

2014-02-04 Thread David Smith
Apologies, r-devel -- I meant to send that message to r-help as I've done for the past five years. I'll resend it there now. Sorry about the duplication. # David Smith -- David M Smith VP of Marketing, Revolution Analytics http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com Tel: +1 (650) 646-9523 (

[Rd] Revolutions Blog: January 2014 roundup

2014-02-04 Thread David Smith
Revolution Analytics staff write about R every weekday at the Revolutions blog: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com and every month I post a summary of articles from the previous month of particular interest to readers of r-help. In case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from t

Re: [Rd] CRAN package 5000

2013-11-08 Thread David Smith
Congratulations, that's quite a milestone! Many thanks to you and the other CRAN volunteers for reviewing, responding to, and approving all of these contributions, and for maintaining the CRAN infrastructure itself. # David -- David M Smith VP of Marketing, Revolution Analytics http://blog.revo

Re: [Rd] Suggestions for R-devel / R-help digest format

2011-07-15 Thread David Smith
w details" on the From line of the email, and then click "Filter messages from this mailing list". Hope this helps, # David Smith On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Robert M. Flight wrote: > Hi Saravanan, > > You don't need a separate GMail account, as others suggeste