R devel - Jan 2015 - Rtools install on new Windows 8.1 desktop stalls with "Not responding"

Hello,

When I try to install Rtools in the usual way into C:\Rtools on a new
Windows 8.1
desktop it stalls near the beginning of the "Extracting files..."
step.

The Task Manager Status for the Setup app shows "Not responding" and
it takes
a long time to complete the installation, in spite of the fact that
this is a fast machine
(Intel i7) with 16 GB if RAM.

There were no such stalls when R itself was installed.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dominick

Please ignore, this was an antivirus issue, sorry.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Dominick Samperi <djsamperi at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I try to install Rtools in the usual way into C:\Rtools on a new
> Windows 8.1
> desktop it stalls near the beginning of the "Extracting files..."
step.
>
> The Task Manager Status for the Setup app shows "Not responding"
and it takes
> a long time to complete the installation, in spite of the fact that
> this is a fast machine
> (Intel i7) with 16 GB if RAM.
>
> There were no such stalls when R itself was installed.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Dominick