R help - Jul 1999 - R 0.64.2 for Windows 95/NT

I installed R 0.64.2 using "rwinst.exe" on a Windows 95 machine.  The
zip
files and rwinst.exe were stored in a directory "rtmp" and I wanted R
to
be installed in "r0642" (by setting c:\rtmp for source directory and
c:\
for install directory).  After the installation was completed the main
program was in r0642 whereas all the documentation in c:\rtmp\r0642.  

Is this a known bug?  

Furthermore if I set the install directory to be c:\rbeta instead of c:\
(in the hope that the distribution will be installed in c:\rbeta and not
c:\r0642) I end up with the files in c:\rbeta\r0642.

E. S. Venkatraman

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On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, E. S. Venkatraman wrote:
> I installed R 0.64.2 using "rwinst.exe" on a Windows 95 machine. 
The zip
> files and rwinst.exe were stored in a directory "rtmp" and I
wanted R to
> be installed in "r0642" (by setting c:\rtmp for source directory
and c:\
> for install directory).  After the installation was completed the main
> program was in r0642 whereas all the documentation in c:\rtmp\r0642.  
> 
> Is this a known bug?  
No. I have never tried installing in the root directory, and that
probably fails, since c: vs c:\ is handled differently from c:\rbeta vs
c:\rbeta\.  I'll add a special-case check for this.

You can just move the files, of course.
> Furthermore if I set the install directory to be c:\rbeta instead of c:\
> (in the hope that the distribution will be installed in c:\rbeta and not
> c:\r0642) I end up with the files in c:\rbeta\r0642.
Yes, that is what is specified to happen.


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