Duncan's retirement: who's taking over Rtools?
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 always taking special care of company interest independence. Juan El 29/9/2017 2:23 p. m., "Juan Telleria" <jtelleriar at gmail.com> escribi?:
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 R Core Developer which will be in charge of Duncan's roles. And, if appropriate, transfer the scripts Duncan might use, the documentation, etc. Thank you, Juan