I tried it from another computer and it did work. Is there some way of installing R devel using the analog of the R --vanilla flag so that I can do it in a reproducible manner. It seems to remember prior settings and maybe that is a problem although one would not expect a setting that could lead to what occurs. I don't see anything documenting flags on the Rtools40 page.
On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 9:52 AM Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I clicked on the download link at > https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html > and then opened the downloaded file which starts the installation process. > I specified a new directory that does not exist, R-test, to be sure that > it would not get confused with an old directory. > > I repeated this using different directories and on different days. > > I tried it from a user and an Admin account. > > If I use the exact same procedure to install R-4.0.3patched it works. > > I have successfully downloaded and installed R maybe hundreds > of times over the last 10 to 20 years and have never before > encountered this. > > > > > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 9:13 AM Jeroen Ooms <jeroeno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 3:00 PM Gabor Grothendieck > > <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > When I try to install r-devel on Windows all I get is this. No other > > > files. This also occurred yesterday as well. > > > > It just tested it to be sure, but it works fine for me. Are you using > > the official installer from > > https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html ? > > > > The default install path is not R-test C:\Program Files\R\R-devel. > > Perhaps you have old files lingering from previous installations that > > cause permission problems during the installation process? > > > > -- > Statistics & Software Consulting > GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. > tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP > email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel