If you go here: https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/windows/base
you see EXE installers for Windows. This contrasts with other programming languages that offer both an executable installer and ZIP files that can be extracted and run. For example Go: https://golang.org/dl and Nim: https://nim-lang.org/install_windows.html Python: https://python.org/downloads/release/python-373 and C#: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/2.2 PHP: https://windows.php.net/download Perl: http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel