From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Wed Oct 26 19:54:42 2005
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:54:42 -0400
Subject: [Rd] R patched for Windows missing
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Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>R patched for Windows seems to be missing. If one clicks on
>>R-2.2.0pat-win32.exe at, say,
>>
>>   http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html
>>
>>then an error occurs.  I tried it at several mirror sites with the same
>>result.  The web page in question says:
>>
>>This directory contains a Windows binary build of R including patches
>>up to 2005-10-24.
> 
> 
> Looks like an HTML issue. Almost all links on that page go to files in
> the server root, and likewise for r-devel. The .exe files themselves
> seem to be quite happily sitting alongside the release binary at e.g.
> 
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/R-2.2.0pat-win32.exe
> 
> 
> The source for the link table in r-patched.html is currently looking like this:

See the thread on this with subject "Re: [Rd] download problem: Windows 
binaries - patched/devel versions".  We know about it and are working on 
it.  It's caused by the mirroring software being a little too helpful.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> <TABLE WIDTH="90%" BORDER="0">
> <TBODY>
>   <TR>
>     <TD WIDTH="19%" VALIGN="top"><A HREF="../../../../../../../../../README.R-2.2.0pat">README.R-2.2.0pat</A></TD>
>     <TD WIDTH="81%">Installation and other instructions.</TD>
>   </TR>
>   <TR>
>     <TD WIDTH="19%" VALIGN="top"><A HREF="../../../../../../../../../CHANGES.R-2.2.0pat">CHANGES</A></TD>
> 
>     <TD WIDTH="81%">New features of this Windows version.</TD>
>   </TR>
>   <TR>
>     <TD WIDTH="19%" VALIGN="top"><A HREF="../../../../../../../../../NEWS.R-2.2.0pat">NEWS</A></TD>
>     <TD WIDTH="81%">New features of all versions.</TD>
>   </TR>
>   <TR>
> 
>     <TD WIDTH="19%" VALIGN="top"><A HREF="../../../../../../../../../R-2.2.0pat-win32.exe">R-2.2.0pat-win32.exe</A></TD>
>     <TD WIDTH="81%">Setup program (about 25 megabytes). Please download this
>     from a <A HREF="http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html">mirror near you</A>. <BR>
>     This corresponds to the file named <B>SetupR.exe</B> or
>     <B>rwXXXX.exe</B> in pre-2.2.0 releases.</TD>
> 
>   </TR>
> </TBODY>
> </TABLE>
> 
> <
>



[Rd] R patched for Windows missing
Duncan Murdoch