[External] Re: Update on rtools4 and ucrt support

On Aug 24, 2021, at 10:03 AM, Avraham Adler <avraham.adler at gmail.com> wrote:


Thank you, Simon. That was valuable. Skimming that quickly, I get a bit concerned. I?ve been building from source and then using OpenBLAS in my R source for many, many years now, and it looks like its support is tenuous in the experimental chain. Similarly with packages like nloptr, where I build NLOPT 2.6+ and have adjusted Jelmer?s code for it to work in R for Windows. I maintain packages with Fortran/OpenMP and Rcpp(Parallel). I hope that should the decision be made to switch, it will be done when the build process is more streamlined, especially for some fundamental packages. 

That being said, I must take the opportunity again to thank R-core, Tomas, Jeroen, Duncan among many others who have built an infrastructure that allows amateur programmers to contribute to the statistical infrastructure. 

Thanks again,

Avi