Hello, Reading the FAQ, I'm confused about whether R 4.0.2 is tested on Windows 7. I found the following:> 2.24 Does R run under Windows Vista/7/8/Server 2008? > > It does. ...> 2.2 How do I install R for Windows? > > Current binary versions of R are known to run on Windows 7 or later, including on 64-bit versions: See Can I use R on 64-bit Windows?. Windows > XP is no longer supported. > > We only test on versions of Windows currently supported by Microsoft, mainly 64-bit Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 10. ...There is no indication what date these questions and answers were posted. If it's true that R is only tested on supported versions of Windows, that would exclude Vista and Windows 7. The download site doesn't mention operating system requirements. Does 4.0.2 work on Windows 7? Thank you, Mike [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Try it and see? On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:44 AM Firpo, Mike via R-help < r-help at r-project.org> wrote:> Hello, > > Reading the FAQ, I'm confused about whether R 4.0.2 is tested on Windows > 7. I found the following: > > > 2.24 Does R run under Windows Vista/7/8/Server 2008? > > > > It does. ... > > > 2.2 How do I install R for Windows? > > > > Current binary versions of R are known to run on Windows 7 or later, > including on 64-bit versions: See Can I use R on 64-bit Windows?. Windows > > XP is no longer supported. > > > > We only test on versions of Windows currently supported by Microsoft, > mainly 64-bit Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 10. ... > > There is no indication what date these questions and answers were > posted. If it's true that R is only tested on supported versions of > Windows, that would exclude Vista and Windows 7. > > The download site doesn't mention operating system requirements. Does > 4.0.2 work on Windows 7? > > Thank you, > > Mike > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. >-- Patrick S. Malone, Ph.D., Malone Quantitative NEW Service Models: http://malonequantitative.com He/Him/His [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Hello, Yes, R 4.0.2 works on Windows 7. As for Vista, I don't know, never tried. Hope this helps, Rui Barradas ?s 18:52 de 21/08/20, Firpo, Mike via R-help escreveu:> Hello, > > Reading the FAQ, I'm confused about whether R 4.0.2 is tested on Windows 7. I found the following: > >> 2.24 Does R run under Windows Vista/7/8/Server 2008? >> >> It does. ... > >> 2.2 How do I install R for Windows? >> >> Current binary versions of R are known to run on Windows 7 or later, including on 64-bit versions: See Can I use R on 64-bit Windows?. Windows > XP is no longer supported. >> >> We only test on versions of Windows currently supported by Microsoft, mainly 64-bit Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 10. ... > > There is no indication what date these questions and answers were posted. If it's true that R is only tested on supported versions of Windows, that would exclude Vista and Windows 7. > > The download site doesn't mention operating system requirements. Does 4.0.2 work on Windows 7? > > Thank you, > > Mike > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. >
I don't know the answer to your main question, but if you're interested in knowing when that was written, you can see here https://github.com/wch/r-source/blame/trunk/doc/manual/R-FAQ.texi for the main FAQ, and here: https://github.com/wch/r-source/blame/trunk/doc/manual/rw-FAQ.texi for the Windows FAQ. The particular entries you were asking about were in the Windows FAQ and most recently updated 5 years ago (2.24) or 4 months ago (2.2). So there's a good chance that 2.2 is still valid, though like any documentation, it can get out of date without anyone noticing. If you do find that R fails to run on Windows 7, you should like R Core know. Duncan Murdoch On 21/08/2020 1:52 p.m., Firpo, Mike via R-help wrote:> Hello, > > Reading the FAQ, I'm confused about whether R 4.0.2 is tested on Windows 7. I found the following: > >> 2.24 Does R run under Windows Vista/7/8/Server 2008? >> >> It does. ... > >> 2.2 How do I install R for Windows? >> >> Current binary versions of R are known to run on Windows 7 or later, including on 64-bit versions: See Can I use R on 64-bit Windows?. Windows > XP is no longer supported. >> >> We only test on versions of Windows currently supported by Microsoft, mainly 64-bit Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 10. ... > > There is no indication what date these questions and answers were posted. If it's true that R is only tested on supported versions of Windows, that would exclude Vista and Windows 7. > > The download site doesn't mention operating system requirements. Does 4.0.2 work on Windows 7? > > Thank you, > > Mike > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. >
Dear Mike, On 2020-08-22 11:50 -0400, Patrick (Malone Quantitative) wrote: | On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:44 AM Firpo, Mike wrote: | | | | Hello, | | | | Reading the FAQ, I'm confused about | | whether R 4.0.2 is tested on Windows | | 7. I found the following: | | | | | 2.24 Does R run under Windows | | | Vista/7/8/Server 2008? | | | | | | It does. ... | | | | | | 2.2 How do I install R for Windows? | | | | | | Current binary versions of R are | | | known to run on Windows 7 or | | | later, including on 64-bit | | | versions: See Can I use R on | | | 64-bit Windows?. Windows XP is | | | no longer supported. | | | | | | We only test on versions of | | | Windows currently supported by | | | Microsoft, mainly 64-bit Windows | | | 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows | | | 10. ... | | | | There is no indication what date | | these questions and answers were | | posted. You have to dig around like a dog in SVN or on github. I found in doc/manual/Makefile.in that rw-FAQ.html comes from rw-FAQ.texi; the 3.6.0 version is in qinwang's account[1], selecting blame for line 623 and 150 shows[2][3] that this was written around ten years ago by ripley. Maybe you can get a SVN viewer for Windows and pull trunk[4] to look around. | | If it's true that R is only | | tested on supported versions of | | Windows, that would exclude Vista | | and Windows 7. | | | | The download site doesn't mention | | operating system requirements. Does | | 4.0.2 work on Windows 7? | | Try it and see? This table[5] says Windows XP was the latest deprecated version. Maybe look into running something like Linux Mint? Best, Rasmus [1] https://github.com/qinwang/R/blob/master/doc/manual/rw-FAQ.texi#L623 [2] https://github.com/qinwang/R/commit/5b8d4d50aa8ac7989dec5d3c571c89c1dd6d6466 [3] https://github.com/qinwang/R/commit/dc8e21174441426237c6af1dff697784eac8d7c1 [4] https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)#Milestones -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20200822/6cc0811d/attachment.sig>