Dear R-project team,
I have tried but could not install the R statistical package
(http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/ ) even after the help of my institute's IT
personnel. The setup file could not be downloaded. The latest file
R-2.12.2.tar.gz<http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/src/base/R-2/R-2.12.2.tar.gz>
does not start installation wizard. Kindly extend the technical support.
Best regards.
Dr. Nasir Ali Afsar MBBS, M.Phil.
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology,
College of Medicine,
Alfaisal University,
Al-Takhassusi Road,
P.O. Box 50927,
Riyadh-11533, Saudi Arabia.
Tel: +966-1-2157679.
nafsar@alfaisal.edu<mailto:nafsar@alfaisal.edu>
drnasirpk@yahoo.com<mailto:drnasirpk@yahoo.com>
www.alfaisal.edu<http://www.alfaisal.edu/>
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I guess your OS is windows. In that case, you need to download the R binaries for windows (e.g. http://ftp.ctex.org/mirrors/CRAN/bin/windows/) rather than the source tar ball. Regards, Ronggui On 5 March 2011 19:56, Nasir Afsar <nafsar at alfaisal.edu> wrote:> Dear R-project team, > I have tried but could not install the R statistical package (http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/ ) even after the help of my institute's IT personnel. The setup file could not be downloaded. The latest file R-2.12.2.tar.gz<http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/src/base/R-2/R-2.12.2.tar.gz> does not start installation wizard. Kindly extend the technical support. > > Best regards. > > Dr. Nasir Ali Afsar ?MBBS, M.Phil. > Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, > College of Medicine, > Alfaisal University, > Al-Takhassusi Road, > P.O. Box 50927, > Riyadh-11533, Saudi Arabia. > Tel: +966-1-2157679. > nafsar at alfaisal.edu<mailto:nafsar at alfaisal.edu> > drnasirpk at yahoo.com<mailto:drnasirpk at yahoo.com> > www.alfaisal.edu<http://www.alfaisal.edu/> > > > > ________________________________ > DISCLAIMER: This electronic mail transmission contains c...{{dropped:16}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- Wincent Ronggui HUANG Sociology Department of Fudan University PhD of City University of Hong Kong http://asrr.r-forge.r-project.org/rghuang.html
On Mar 5, 2011, at 6:56 AM, Nasir Afsar wrote:> Dear R-project team, > I have tried but could not install the R statistical package (http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/ > ) even after the help of my institute's IT personnel. The setup > file could not be downloaded. The latest file R-2.12.2.tar.gz<http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/src/base/R-2/R-2.12.2.tar.gz > > does not start installation wizard. Kindly extend the technical > support.That is a source file. Are you properly prepared for a source installation on what ever OS (which I do not see mentioned) you might be targetting? (I have trimmed my reply to go only to r-help. It is considered impolite to send to both r-help and r-devel for a basic question like this.)> > Best regards. > > Dr. Nasir Ali Afsar MBBS, M.Phil. > Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, > College of Medicine,-- David Winsemius, MD Heritage Laboratories West Hartford, CT
On Mar 5, 2011, at 5:56 AM, Nasir Afsar wrote:> Dear R-project team, > I have tried but could not install the R statistical package (http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/ ) even after the help of my institute's IT personnel. The setup file could not be downloaded. The latest file R-2.12.2.tar.gz<http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/src/base/R-2/R-2.12.2.tar.gz> does not start installation wizard. Kindly extend the technical support.Nasir, You are trying to install and run a compressed archive that contains the SOURCE CODE for R, not an executable version of the application. You need to download the binary executable version of R for installation. You don't indicate your operating system, but go here: http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/ and look at the section entitled: Download and Install R where binaries for Windows and OSX are available by following the appropriate link. If by chance you are on a Linux variant, there are binaries available for selected distributions, but we would need more information to guide you further. HTH, Marc Schwartz P.S. I dropped the R-devel e-mail cc:. Please only send queries to one list. See the Posting Guide: http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html