Dear Jan and Ali, I haven't followed this thread, so I apologize if my information is off-base or redundant.
I expect that Ali simply wants to install R on a Windows machine, in which case he would be well advised to download and use the Windows installer for R rather than download the source distribution of R. The installer is available on CRAN at <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/> or, better, at the analogous location on a nearby mirror site. I hope this helps, John -------------------------------- John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:r-sig-teaching-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Jan Vandermeer > Sent: November-13-10 9:50 AM > To: Ali Zanaty > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] Installing R into my computer > > Hi Ali; > > You need to install a program like 7Zip <http://www.7-zip.org/> which will > allow you to untar and install the *.tar file. > > 7Zip unpacks tars, rars, zips and their own proprietary 7z compaction > methods. > > *7-Zip* is *open source* software. Most of the source code is under the *GNU > LGPL* license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR > restrictions. Check license information here: 7-Zip > license<http://www.7-zip.org/license.txt> > . > > You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial > organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip. > > Just as R is open source and under a similar license. > > > Jan > > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Ali Zanaty <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear All R Users: > > > > I am trying to install R into my computer. I downloaded R-2.12.0.tar and > > the old > > version R-2.6.2.tar. But when I tried to double click on the the file(s) it > > did > > not install the program, it says Windows cannot open this file: > > > > File: R-2.12.0.tar.gz > > > > To open this file, windows needs to know what progrm created it, .... > > > > What do you want to do? > > > > Use the Web sercvice to find the approperiate program > > Select the program from a list. > > > > I think I am missing something, but I do not know what it is? > > > > Thanks for your helps. > > > > Ali > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
