R help - Jul 2006 - R installation - WINDOWS - problem

Dear R mailing group,

 I am having extreme - and mysterious - trouble installing R. I tried 
simply dl ing R-2.3.1.tar.gz, and unzipping it, but after doing so, nowhere 
could I find a file called R-2.3.1.exe. I did however find an 
R-2.3.1.exe.manifest.

 I therefore tried the command line installation command - given in 
R-admin.pdf. This command is: tar zxvf R-2.3.1.tgz

This is strange because the file I dl'ed was a .tar.gz. I tried this line 
as well as: tar zxvf R-2.3.1.tar.gz. The command was not recognized.

 Can anyone help me with this trange problem?

 Sincerely,

Norman Goodacre

On 15 July 2006 at 02:41, N. Goodacre wrote:
| Dear R mailing group,
| 
|  I am having extreme - and mysterious - trouble installing R. I tried 
| simply dl ing R-2.3.1.tar.gz, and unzipping it, but after doing so, nowhere 
| could I find a file called R-2.3.1.exe. I did however find an 
| R-2.3.1.exe.manifest.
| 
|  I therefore tried the command line installation command - given in 
| R-admin.pdf. This command is: tar zxvf R-2.3.1.tgz
| 
| This is strange because the file I dl'ed was a .tar.gz. I tried this line 
| as well as: tar zxvf R-2.3.1.tar.gz. The command was not recognized.
| 
|  Can anyone help me with this trange problem?

You are download the source, you want the binary. Start here (assumming that
you're actually physically/network-close to cam.ac.uk:

	http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/base

aka

	http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/windows/base/

and pick the file R-2.3.1-win32.exe.

Hope this helps, Dirk

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