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I have built a version of the current 1.2.2 patched version of R using Inno Setup2 (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm). (That toolkit is open source (in Delphi) and was fairly easy to tame. Full details are in the R-patched sources.) This gives a single ~10Mb file, at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/SetupR.exe The idea is that it should look very like a Windows 2000-style install, and so be intuitive...

...R-Admin manual provides information on the Inno Setup installer: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Building-the-Inno-Setup-installer https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#The-Inno-Setup-installer which leads you to: http://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php and shows that Inno Setup is, like R, fully open source, hence reviewable and not a black box, any more than R itself is. That should not be a surprise... While I understand the use case you describe, it is, as I noted initially, up to R Core to be willing to provide an official release of a...

> On Jun 3, 2019, at 4:40 PM, Abby Spurdle <spurdle.a at gmail.com> wrote: > >> If you go here: >> https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/windows/base >> you see EXE installers for Windows. This contrasts with other programming >> languages that offer both an executable installer and ZIP files that can > be >> extracted and run > > Are you suggesting