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List:       r-devel
Subject:    Re: [Rd] Unsigned binary
From:       Martin Maechler <maechler () stat ! math ! ethz ! ch>
Date:       2022-06-20 13:45:40
Message-ID: 25264.31236.650358.678527 () stat ! math ! ethz ! ch
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>>>>> Jeroen Ooms 
>>>>>     on Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:45:36 +0200 writes:

    > On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 2:46 PM Scott McAllister <scott@patchmypc.com>
    > wrote:

    >> Thank you for your update on this
    >> 
    >> If you can keep me updated on when version 4.2.1 is rereleased with the
    >> interim code signing certificate, that would be fantastic

    > Signed (unofficial) builds are also available from
    > https://github.com/r-windows/r-base/releases

Hmm, sorry to be blunt,  but I think these should really *NOT*
be used anymore (for R versions >= 4.2.0)
as they are not based on the official R sources for Windows, 
AFAIK, and *also* this unofficial version is still building
packages the old way instead of the new one which is documented in e.g.

     https://blog.r-project.org/

viz.

     https://blog.r-project.org/2021/12/07/upcoming-changes-in-r-4.2-on-windows/
and  https://blog.r-project.org/2022/06/16/upcoming-changes-in-r-4.2.1-on-windows/

Martin Maechler
(R core team; co-author of the first blog above)

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