On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 10:29 -0400, John Fox wrote: > For several years, I've created a custom R installer for my students > who use Windows. When I test the installer on my own Windows machines, > selections in the installation dialogs reflect my previous choices, > which I suppose are saved in the Windows registry. > > I'd like to be able to see what a student who has never installed R > before will see, to verify that an installation that takes all > defaults in the custom installer produces the desired result. In the > past, I've dealt with this problem by finding a Windows machine on > which R has never been installed, but that's inconvenient (and, as R > proliferates will, I hope, become impossible!). Is there a better > approach?
I keep a Windows XP virtual machine image around in a 'clean' state for things like this. I spin up the 'clean' image, test what I need to test, and shut down the Windows image without snapshotting it. Regards, - Brian -- Brian G. Peterson http://braverock.com/brian/ Ph: 773-459-4973 IM: bgpbraverock ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
