From pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca  Tue Mar 30 00:19:03 2004
From: pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Tue Mar 30 00:19:24 2004
Subject: [Rd] Re:  How to purchase R on CD
In-Reply-To: <OF58A5FC51.33F12832-ON87256E66.005EDB5E-87256E66.00616B4B@blm.gov>
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Message-ID: <4068A0D7.5000602@bankofcanada.ca>

(moved from R to R-devel)

Other responses to this were along the lines of "how to buy a cheap 
CD,"   which may not be the way to think about what you are asking.   If 
the R Foundation were to sell an "as is" CD snapshot of some part of 
CRAN, how much would you be willing to pay for it?

Paul Gilbert

George_Heine@blm.gov wrote:

>
>
>My organization has a policy against "installing software downloaded from
>the Internet."  There is a waiver procedure, but it is difficult and
>lengthy.  It is much easier to get approval to purchase software, even if
>it is a CD copy of open-source.
>
>However, a search on r-project.org didn't seem to show any way of obtaining
>the distribution in this way.
>
>Any clues would be appreciated!
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[Rd] Re: How to purchase R on CD
Paul Gilbert