How R gets built on Windows

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I wasn't at the Use of R in Official Statistics (uRos2018) conference in the Netherlands last month, but I'm thankful to Jeroen Ooms for sharing the slides from his keynote presentation. In addition to being a postdoc staffer at ROpenSci, Jeroen maintains the official repository for the daily R builds on Windows — you might recognize his name from the verification certificate that pops up when installing R on Windows. His uRos2018 talk provides a fascinating glimpse into the complex systems, dependencies, and processes that come together to make installing R as easy as as double-click. On thing I found...

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