Hi John; You are right. I was trying to answer the immediate question. I would definitely be simpler to use the install. I run R under Gentoo Linux and I guess we all get set in particular ways of doing things.,
Jan On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:55 AM, John Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
