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On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 5:40 PM Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail.com> wrote: > > Theres nothing nefarious here. It would allow people to use the R environment > without running an installer. If someone is a new user they may want to try > R out, and installers can be invasive as they commonly: > > - copy files to install dir > -...

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 6:54 PM Marc Schwartz wrote: > I am on macOS primarily, albeit, I have run both Windows and Linux routinely > in years past. With all due respect, then you have no business in this thread. > That being said, these days, I do run Windows 10 under a Parallels VM on > macOS, as I have a single commercial application that I need to run for > clients now and

> 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

FWIW, innoextract extracts the contents of the installer just fine. I?aki On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 17:40, Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 6:54 PM Marc Schwartz wrote: > > I am on macOS primarily, albeit, I have run both Windows and Linux routinely > > in years past. > > With all due respect, then you have no business in this thread. > > > That being s...

...the correct version of R can be located. Just unpacking a ZIP won't work in general since tools using R have no reliable way to find it. Cheers, Simon > On Jun 6, 2019, at 6:33 AM, Jeroen Ooms <jeroen at berkeley.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 5:40 PM Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Theres nothing nefarious here. It would allow people to use the R environment >> without running an installer. If someone is a new user they may want to try >> R out, and installers can be invasive as they commonly: >> >> - copy fi...

> On Jun 3, 2019, at 6:31 PM, Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 4:11 PM Marc Schwartz wrote: >> I have not tried it, but if that is the case here, you may be able to use the >> normal R binary installer, but adjust the default install options when >> prompted, allowing you to customize...