Patrick, Rui, Murdoch, and Rasmus, Thank you for your responses. It may not be fair of me to send out that request just before leaving on vacation for a week. I appreciate you getting back to me.
All the best, Mike -----Original Message----- From: Rasmus Liland <j...@posteo.no> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2020 9:57 AM To: Patrick (Malone Quantitative) <mal...@malonequantitative.com>; Firpo, Mike <fir...@llnl.gov> Cc: R-help <r-help@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R] System Requirements Dear Mike, On 2020-08-22 11:50 -0400, Patrick (Malone Quantitative) wrote: | On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:44 AM Firpo, Mike wrote: | | | | Hello, | | | | Reading the FAQ, I'm confused about whether R 4.0.2 is tested on | | Windows 7. I found the following: | | | | | 2.24 Does R run under Windows | | | Vista/7/8/Server 2008? | | | | | | It does. ... | | | | | | 2.2 How do I install R for Windows? | | | | | | Current binary versions of R are | | | known to run on Windows 7 or | | | later, including on 64-bit | | | versions: See Can I use R on | | | 64-bit Windows?. Windows XP is | | | no longer supported. | | | | | | We only test on versions of | | | Windows currently supported by | | | Microsoft, mainly 64-bit Windows | | | 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 10. ... | | | | There is no indication what date | | these questions and answers were | | posted. You have to dig around like a dog in SVN or on github. I found in doc/manual/Makefile.in that rw-FAQ.html comes from rw-FAQ.texi; the 3.6.0 version is in qinwang's account[1], selecting blame for line 623 and 150 shows[2][3] that this was written around ten years ago by ripley. Maybe you can get a SVN viewer for Windows and pull trunk[4] to look around. | | If it's true that R is only | | tested on supported versions of | | Windows, that would exclude Vista | | and Windows 7. | | | | The download site doesn't mention | | operating system requirements. Does | | 4.0.2 work on Windows 7? | | Try it and see? This table[5] says Windows XP was the latest deprecated version. Maybe look into running something like Linux Mint? Best, Rasmus [1] https://github.com/qinwang/R/blob/master/doc/manual/rw-FAQ.texi#L623 [2] https://github.com/qinwang/R/commit/5b8d4d50aa8ac7989dec5d3c571c89c1dd6d6466 [3] https://github.com/qinwang/R/commit/dc8e21174441426237c6af1dff697784eac8d7c1 [4] https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)#Milestones ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.