"M. Edward Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net> writes: [Cc-ing r-devel, hope you won't mind]
1. Should we download the "devel" or the "patched" tarballs?
The beta tarballs. Follow the link from the front page on CRAN. It wasn't in place when I wrote the note, but now points to http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease The snapshot directory at ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/ should also have them once a minor configuration wrinkle has been ironed out. At that point we might want to get rid of the base-prerelease directory.
2. Is there a Windows build of the "devel" or "patched" release available?
There might be, but Duncan Murdoch is master of that domain.
3. The only two "unusual" platforms I have access to are Athlon T-Bird and Athlon XP. I have a P3 as well, but that seems vanilla. All are running Gentoo Linux and the XP is also running Windows. On the Linux side, I run with Atlas 3.6.0. I also have a P4 at work, running Windows XP and Gentoo Linux. And if I beg the right folks, I can get a Tru64 4.0f system, although that will need to be done off-hours, since there aren't any "living" projects tied to it.
"Usual" platforms break too, but of course there's a limit to how
often you want to exercise basically equivalent features of
essentially the same systems.
-pd
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