I agree with Moshe.
It is important to maintain the independence of R as a programming language
by itselft, even if it could benefit from Microsoft work (C++ Base Code,
etc.), it is better in my opinion to keep it independent.
Also, Duncan work and know-how shall be transferred to the next future
If no 'type' is specified, download.packages("pkgname") will download source
packages (.tar.gz files), even on Windows. However, the help says
type character string, indicate which type of packages: see
install.packages.
and on Windows, install.packages defaults to downloading binary pack
Hello,
The help pages for download.packages and install.packages say
'type = getOption("pkgType")'.
And on Windows I get
getOption("pkgType")
[1] "both"
which means in ?getOptions
pkgType:
The default type of packages to be downloaded and installed – see
install.packages. Possible values
On 29/09/2017 12:44 PM, Rui Barradas wrote:
Hello,
The help pages for download.packages and install.packages say
'type = getOption("pkgType")'.
And on Windows I get
getOption("pkgType")
[1] "both"
which means in ?getOptions
pkgType:
The default type of packages to be downloaded and ins
The Apache Foundation has a whole article stating that open source projects
shall be managed and used independently of any commercial interest:
https://community.apache.org/projectIndependence.html
So Microsoft could donate, if interested, money or other resources for such
specific role, but alwa
