Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > While trying my hand <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/20523> at porting > R 3.3.1 to Sage (needs_review, by the way), I found this in the > current R Installation and Administration manual > <https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Cygwin> : > >> C.8 Cygwin >> >> The 32-bit version has never worked well enough to pass R’s make > check, and residual support from >> earlier experiments was removed in R 3.3.0. >> >> The 64-bit version is completely unsupported. > > Maybe we should consider to have an interface to system's R rather than > our own version (and therefore make it an optional package)
+1 for making it an optional package. (It's by the way not what I'd call a small package, and also takes some time to build.) The Cygwin developers certainly have to say something regarding support as a standard package. (I don't think it would make sense to upgrade Sage's R version *and* keep it a standard package if it does no longer build on Cygwin. We could presumably still keep Rpy and let it use the system version of R, also on Windoze, if present and suited.) -leif > It would be more difficult (but not impossible) to offer the same kind > of access to an external R as to a tightly-knit R. I'm thinking > graphics, notebook(s) integration, etc... > > OTOH, the existence of a good R interface (Rpy2) could make things > easier. The largest problem that one can forecast is, of course, > backwards compatibility in existing programs. > > > On the third hand, what can be said if the future of a native Windows > port of Sage, which could do without Cygwin monkeying ? I understand > that a) it's not really easy and b) some significant advances have been > made recently... > > Ideas, suggestions, etc ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
