Re: [Rd] Rtools42 and included libraries

2021-12-20 Thread Tomas Kalibera
On 12/17/21 8:32 PM, Winston Chang wrote: Rtools42 includes the pre-compiled libraries needed to build most CRAN packages. From the blog ( https://developer.r-project.org/Blog/public/2021/12/07/upcoming-changes-in-r-4.2-on-windows/ ): Most of the required package changes were due to downloadi

[Rd] Status of '=>'

2021-12-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
R 4.1.0 brought the native pipe and the related ability to use '=>' if one opted into it by setting _R_USE_PIPEBIND_. I often forget about '=>' and sadly can never find anything in the docs either (particularly no 'see als' from '|>' docs) which is not all that heplful. Can we anticipate a chang

Re: [Rd] [External] Status of '=>'

2021-12-20 Thread luke-tierney
It's still work in progress. Probably => will be dropped in favor of limited use of _ for non-first-argument passing. Best, luke On Mon, 20 Dec 2021, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: R 4.1.0 brought the native pipe and the related ability to use '=>' if one opted into it by setting _R_USE_PIPEBIND_.

[Rd] R on Windows with UCRT and the system encoding

2021-12-20 Thread Hiroaki Yutani
Hi, I'm more than excited about the announcement about the upcoming UTF-8 R on Windows. Let me confirm my understanding. Is R 4.2 supposed to work on Windows with non-UTF-8 encoding as the system locale? I think this blog post indicates so (as this describes the older Windows than the UTF-8 era),