From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Fri Mar  7 14:59:17 2008
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:59:17 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Installing latest version under Windows (PR#10908)
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On 3/6/2008 9:35 PM, Royomopito at nchecr.unsw.edu.au wrote:
> Dear Debuggers,
> 
> =20
> 
> I'm trying to install R for the first time, however, the exe file
> referred to does not exist: Installation is via the installer
> R-2.6.2-win32.exe
> 
> =20
> 
> I've downloaded R several times and the file does not exist.

This statement doesn't make sense.  Either you downloaded it and it does 
exist, or it does not exist because you failed to download it.

What URL are you using?  I see that file at

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/R-2.6.2-win32.exe

Is that what you're downloading?

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> =20
> 
> I've tried renaming Rgui.exe.manifest and Rterm.exe.manifest to have
> only the .exe extension and but this doesn't work.=20
> 
> =20
> 
> What are your suggestions?
> 
> =20
> 
> Regards
> 
> =20
> 
> Rebecca
> 
> 
> 3 Installing R under Windows
> 
> 
> The bin/windows directory of a CRAN site contains binaries for a base
> distribution and a large number of add-on packages from CRAN to run on
> Windows 95, 98, NT4, 2000, ME, XP, 2003 Server and Vista (at least) on
> Intel x86 and clones (including AMD64/EM64T chips and Windows x64).=20
> 
> Your file system must allow long file names (as is likely except perhaps
> for some network-mounted systems).=20
> 
> Installation is via the installer R-2.6.2-win32.exe. Just double-click
> on the icon and follow the instructions. You can uninstall R from the
> Control Panel. (Note that you will probably (depending on the Windows
> language settings) be asked to choose a language for installation, and
> that choice applies to both installation and un-installation but not to
> running R itself.)=20
> 
> See the R Windows FAQ
> <http://CRAN.R-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html>  for more
> details.=20
> 
> =20
> 
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[Rd] Installing latest version under Windows (PR#10908)
Duncan Murdoch