Hello, I have a question on the support of the R 2.6 software. We are in the process of planning for a hardware refresh and our new machines will be running Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. My question is if the R 2.6 software would be supported on a system running Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8? Also, are you aware of any customers having issues with Windows 7 and/or Internet Explorer 8? Thank you for your time and any information you can provide. Tim Raadt Systems Developer Federated Insurance 121 East Park Square Owatonna, MN 55060 507-444-7163 This e-mail and its attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee(s) and may contain privileged, confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, displaying, copying, or use of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please inform the sender immediately and delete and destroy any record of this message. Thank you. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Raadt, Timothy W. <twraadt at fedins.com> wrote:> > Hello, > > I have a question on the support of the R 2.6 software. ?We are in the process of planning for a ?hardware refresh and our new machines will be running Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. ? My question is if the R 2.6 software would be supported on a system running Windows 7 and Internet ?Explorer 8? ?Also, are you aware of any customers having issues with Windows 7 and/or ?Internet Explorer 8? > > Thank you for your time and any information you can provide.Do you understand how Open Source software works? There's a difference between 'runs on' and 'supported on'. R 2.6 might 'run on' Windows 7, but that doesn't mean if you have a problem that someone will fix it. The same applies to the any version of R on any operating system really. If you want "support" for R (in the sense of something that props you up when otherwise you'd fall over) then you need to pony up some cash and find a company that does it. These do exist. R-help isn't it. Also, if you find that R 2.6 doesn't 'run on' Windows 7, you could offer to pay an individual to port it. Or even to port your code for R 2.6 onto the latest version. However, R 2.6 is very, very old now. Have you yet tried running R 2.6 on Windows 7? That would be the first thing you could do. Not like it will cost you anything assuming you have a Windows 7 box handy. Barry
Raadt, Timothy W. wrote:> > > Hello, > > I have a question on the support of the R 2.6 software. We are in the > process of planning for a hardware refresh and our new machines will be > running Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. My question is if the R 2.6 > software would be supported on a system running Windows 7 and Internet > Explorer 8? Also, are you aware of any customers having issues with > Windows 7 and/or Internet Explorer 8? > > Thank you for your time and any information you can provide. > > Tim Raadt > Systems Developer > Federated Insurance > 121 East Park Square > Owatonna, MN 55060 > 507-444-7163 >Well, "support" given on this mailing list is a volunteer effort. It is important to understand that members of this list are in no way obligated to answer any questions- they do it in their free time as a service to the R community. A key part of this process is for volunteers to be able to quickly reproduce problems with the version of R they have installed. Generally, the most knowledgeable people on this list tend to run the newest version of R available-- which is currently 2.10.1. R 2.6 is nearly three years old, so it is unlikely that a significant number of people on this list still use it. Therefore, the answer to any questions posed concerning 2.6 is likely to be "upgrade to the newest version and see if the problem goes away". If you want "real" technical support, then that will require purchasing from a company that provides commercially supported version of R. Two that I know of are R+ from XL Solutions and REvolution R from REvolution Computing. -Charlie ----- Charlie Sharpsteen Undergraduate-- Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State University -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/R-2-6-Support-Question-tp1751666p1751705.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On Apr 5, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Raadt, Timothy W. wrote:> > Hello, > > I have a question on the support of the R 2.6 software. We are in the process of planning for a hardware refresh and our new machines will be running Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. My question is if the R 2.6 software would be supported on a system running Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8? Also, are you aware of any customers having issues with Windows 7 and/or Internet Explorer 8? > > Thank you for your time and any information you can provide.See the R Windows FAQ, which is generally updated to reflect current versions of R: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#Does-R-run-under-Windows-Vista_003f That being said, R version 2.6.x is no longer supported from the perspective of bug fixes, patches and so forth. That version is now well over 2 years old, which is, in the R space-time continuum, ancient. The current release and the only actively supported version is 2.10.1. If you want to get a sense of R's Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), please read Section 6 in: http://www.r-project.org/doc/R-FDA.pdf While the above document is targeted to regulated clinical trials, the SDLC is explained in detail there. In brief, there is only one version of R that is formally supported at any given time and that is the current release version.>From the perspective of using the R e-mail lists for support, if you post a query and mention that you are using R version 2.6.x, the first thing that you will get back in reply is a rather direct series of messages telling you to update to the current release version of R before posting further inquiries.You can also review the R Installation and Administration Manual: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html which is probably the first place that you should look relative to R running on particular platforms, Windows or otherwise. Finally, you can search the e-mail list archives using either the built-in function RSiteSearch(), or one of the online search engines such as rseek.org. You will find myriad discussions on R and Windows 7, etc. HTH, Marc Schwartz
Many others have made good comments regarding your questions, my
suggestion would be this: You may or may not know that R is freely
available and that you can install more than one version of R on the
same PC, so I would suggest installing both R 2.6 and the latest version
of R (2.10.x) and try running your code under both versions and see
what, if any, errors crop up. There is a good chance that your code
will run unmodified on R 2.10, although there have been some minor
changes in function returns and the like, but its best just to try it
out and see what you get. Ideally if your code runs on both and you get
the same output, you can feel comfortable upgrading to the latest
version.
HTH,
Roger
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Hello,
I have a question on the support of the R 2.6 software. We are in the
process of planning for a hardware refresh and our new machines will be
running Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. My question is if the R 2.6
software would be supported on a system running Windows 7 and Internet
Explorer 8? Also, are you aware of any customers having issues with
Windows 7 and/or Internet Explorer 8?
Thank you for your time and any information you can provide.
Tim Raadt
Systems Developer
Federated Insurance
121 East Park Square
Owatonna, MN 55060
507-444-7163
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