Hello, The file [R]/src/gnuwin32/MkRules.dist contains the following link: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/goodies/local.zip It seems this has been updated to be http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/goodies/Win32/local.zip This in R-patched_2010-12-27_r53886. Cheers, Mike. -- Michael Sumner Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania Hobart, Australia e-mail: mdsumner at gmail.com