Re: [R] Installing Perl For Use in R

2020-10-08 Thread William Michels via R-help
Hi Philip, "Perl Download" https://www.perl.org/get.html The above link gives you the option to install from source or from ActiveState. The first link below (source) proudly proclaims, "Perl compiles on over 100 platforms..." and the second link below (binary) similarly proclaims, "Perl supports

Re: [R] Installing Perl For Use in R

2020-10-06 Thread Marc Schwartz via R-help
Hi, What OS are you on? It has been years since I used ActiveState, but it looks like you now need to create an account with them prior to downloading the installation files. They seem to give you the option of creating an account with them, or using Github. I would opt for the former, even t

[R] Installing Perl For Use in R

2020-10-06 Thread Philip
I’m getting nowhere with this. From the website below I clicked on the ActivePerl 5.26 button which seems to lead me into creating projects on the Cloud rather than downloading the software to my hard drive. https://www.activestate.com/products/perl/downloads/ Can someone give me some adv