[Rd] translateChar in NewName in bind.c

2017-06-10 Thread Suharto Anggono Suharto Anggono via R-devel
In function 'NewName' in bind.c (https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/main/bind.c), in else if (*CHAR(base)) , 'translateChar' is used. Should it be 'translateCharUTF8' instead? The end result is marked as UTF-8: mkCharCE(cbuf, CE_UTF8) Other cases already use 'translateCharUTF8'. _

[Rd] Question about R developpment

2017-06-10 Thread Morgan
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. Is it because they don'

Re: [Rd] Question about R developpment

2017-06-10 Thread Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal
https://www.r-consortium.org -Roy > On Jun 10, 2017, at 11:38 AM, Morgan <2005.mor...@gmail.com> 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 improv

Re: [Rd] Question about R developpment

2017-06-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
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

Re: [Rd] Question about R developpment

2017-06-10 Thread Martyn Plummer
I would describe MRO as a distribution of R, in the same way that Fedora, Debian, SUSE etc are distributions of Linux. It is not fundamentally different from the version of R that you can download from CRAN but the binary builds offer some specific features: 1) The binary build is linked to the

Re: [Rd] Question about R developpment

2017-06-10 Thread Andrie de Vries
Martyn and Duncan are both correct. I am on the Microsoft team that creates and distributes Microsoft R Open (MRO). We make absolutely no changes to R at all, just some enchancements in the distribution. As already pointed out: * We add the Intel MKL to replace the built-in BLAS. This is simila

Re: [Rd] Question about R developpment

2017-06-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/06/2017 6:09 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: 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 o