Dear R Community, I hope this message finds you well. I'm part of the IBM AIX Toolbox team. For the past eight years, we have been providing R support to our customers on IBM AIX as part of our toolbox offerings. R has been an invaluable tool for our users, and the demand for it continues to grow ? as you can see from the active discussions in our IBM AIX community forum<https://community.ibm.com/community/user/groups/community-home/digestviewer?CommunityKey=329e8662-cb5a-4e9e-80ee-47b1c3b5848c>. Over the years, we have identified a small set of trivial, non-intrusive patches that are necessary to build R on AIX. These patches do not alter R's behavior on any other platform ? they simply allow R to compile and run correctly in the AIX environment. We would love to contribute these patches back to the R project so that AIX support is maintained natively, reducing the burden on our team and making R more accessible to the broader AIX user community. We believe this aligns well with the spirit of open-source collaboration, and we are committed to working with the maintainers to ensure these changes meet the project's standards and guidelines. We would be grateful for your guidance on the best way to submit these patches ? whether through a pull request, a bug report, or any other preferred channel. Thank you so much for your time and for the incredible work you do maintaining R. We truly appreciate the community's efforts and look forward to contributing. Warm regards, Kushal Verma IBM AIX Toolbox Team
R on IBM AIX
2 messages · Kushal Verma, Duncan Murdoch
I haven't seen a response to this, so I'll give some general advice. You need to give more details before you'll get an answer. As far as I know, R Core doesn't have an AIX system to test your patches on, so the patches need to be obviously safe and trouble free. If they're not, then I think R Core would be very reluctant to accept them. They don't want something that will interfere with future changes, and they probably don't want something that will make it look like they're supporting AIX when they don't have the resources to do that. So the path forward that I'd suggest is that you should put together some of the simple patches and submit them to the bugs.r-project.org site. You may need to follow the instructions there to get write access first if you don't already have it. Duncan Murdoch
On 2026-03-09 1:42 p.m., Kushal Verma via R-devel wrote:
Dear R Community, I hope this message finds you well. I'm part of the IBM AIX Toolbox team. For the past eight years, we have been providing R support to our customers on IBM AIX as part of our toolbox offerings. R has been an invaluable tool for our users, and the demand for it continues to grow ? as you can see from the active discussions in our IBM AIX community forum<https://community.ibm.com/community/user/groups/community-home/digestviewer?CommunityKey=329e8662-cb5a-4e9e-80ee-47b1c3b5848c>. Over the years, we have identified a small set of trivial, non-intrusive patches that are necessary to build R on AIX. These patches do not alter R's behavior on any other platform ? they simply allow R to compile and run correctly in the AIX environment. We would love to contribute these patches back to the R project so that AIX support is maintained natively, reducing the burden on our team and making R more accessible to the broader AIX user community. We believe this aligns well with the spirit of open-source collaboration, and we are committed to working with the maintainers to ensure these changes meet the project's standards and guidelines. We would be grateful for your guidance on the best way to submit these patches ? whether through a pull request, a bug report, or any other preferred channel. Thank you so much for your time and for the incredible work you do maintaining R. We truly appreciate the community's efforts and look forward to contributing. Warm regards, Kushal Verma IBM AIX Toolbox Team [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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