Why should it take months to get these installed ? Both R and emacs are simple and free to install. If high speed internet access is a problem, you can always download these from some Internet Caf� or a friend, burn it into CD and install onto the machines.
If you have red tapes on installing softwares, then good luck. I suppose they would not be so happy purchasing SPLUS than installing free softwares for you. -----Original Message----- From: Bashir Saghir (Aztek Global) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 6:02 PM To: 'Simon Fear'; Prof Brian Ripley; Uwe Ligges Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [R] capturing output from Win 98 shell >Believe me, using Win98 is NOT my choice. I would only ever use >Unix/Linux. Are there other statisticians similarly limited? Like Simon I am very often limited with choice of software and OS when working for clients. I've been waiting for about 5 months to get an editor installed on my machine. I have requested emacs but will settle for anything but the current choice - MS Notepad (I'm serious). The first time we requested an R installation we waited about 3 or 4 months (thanks to constant pressure from our statistical guru). To get the latest version of R we had another 3 or 4 months wait! Then when we finally got it (version 1.6.2) then next version had been released a week earlier (1.7.0 - I think)! Very frustrating! As you can imagine every time I read "Please upgrade to version 1.7.x" - I just wish it was so simple! Best regards, Saghir --------------------------------------------------------- Legal Notice: This electronic mail and its attachments are i...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
