Microsoft R Open 3.3.0, the enhanced distribution of open source R, is now available for download for Windows, Mac and Linux systems. This release includes a significant updates to the R language engine from the R Core Group bundled with the multithreaded performance and CRAN package time-machine capabilities of Microsoft R Open.
The core performance of the R language engine is improved in this update, with faster sorting, data selection, function argument matching and various other speed-ups. There is also new support for C++11 for packages on Windows along with various bug-fixes.
There are many new contributed open-source packages available for use with Microsoft R Open 3.3.0. These include packages for simulating data, fitting multivariate covariance generalized linear models, creating waterfall charts, and the feather package for fast, interoperable data import/export. For reproducibility, these and other packages are from a snapshot taken on June 1, 2016; but as always to install more recent packages simply use the built-in checkpoint function.
Visit MRAN at the link below to download Microsoft R Open 3.3.0.
Anyone else having problems with RTools?
Could not build a package (req. RcppArmadillo) in Rstudio, had to roll back to 3.2.5 to get it working (Windows 10). Also able to build with R 3.3.1
Posted by: Pete Sherick | July 27, 2016 at 08:43
Hi, Pete--
Sorry about that--we used a non-standard RTools path in building MRO 3.3.0, resulting in a non-standard BINPREF setting in C:\Program Files\Microsoft\MRO\R-3.3.0\etc\x64\Makeconf. Edit the BINPREF line in that file to point to your RTools 3.3.0 mingw_64/bin, and all should be well.
Posted by: Rich Calaway | July 28, 2016 at 11:37
Thanks that did the trick.
Posted by: Pete Sherick | July 29, 2016 at 08:52