Windows/UTF-8 Toolchain and CRAN Package Checks

[NewsBot]

A new R blog post/announcement has been posted!

A new, experimental, build of R for Windows is available, its main aim being to support the UTF-8 encoding and especially non-European languages. Check results for CRAN packages are now available on their CRAN results pages. Please help by reviewing these for your package(s) and if a Windows user by trying the new build, particularly if you use a language written in a non-Latin script.
The new build can be downloaded from [2] and instructions are at [1].

Get the full details here: https://developer.r-project.org/Blog/public/2021/03/12/windows/utf-8-toolchain-and-cran-package-checks/

[bot]

Corresponding tweet for this thread:

Devtalk (dev_talk)

Share link for this tweet.