Prof Ripley, r-devel: The Sparc hardware used for CRAN died during an unplanned power outage, and it seems unlikely it can be resurrected.

Jul 11, 2017 路 5:19 PM UTC

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Replying to @eddelbuettel
Hope still someone can donate a hardware piece....
Replying to @eddelbuettel
I think we dumped our old SparcStations under the floor of one of our labs... Does CRAN take donations? [inb4 "Questions about CRAN..."]
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Replying to @eddelbuettel
Thanks for the PSA! I was wondering why the usual 13 CRAN check flavors were not all showing.
Replying to @eddelbuettel
just when Uwe convinced people that it was good to have Solaris tests...
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