On 15 July 2006 at 02:41, N. Goodacre wrote: | Dear R mailing group, | | I am having extreme - and mysterious - trouble installing R. I tried | simply dl ing R-2.3.1.tar.gz, and unzipping it, but after doing so, nowhere | could I find a file called R-2.3.1.exe. I did however find an | R-2.3.1.exe.manifest. | | I therefore tried the command line installation command - given in | R-admin.pdf. This command is: tar zxvf R-2.3.1.tgz | | This is strange because the file I dl'ed was a .tar.gz. I tried this line | as well as: tar zxvf R-2.3.1.tar.gz. The command was not recognized. | | Can anyone help me with this trange problem?
You are download the source, you want the binary. Start here (assumming that you're actually physically/network-close to cam.ac.uk: http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/windows/base aka http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/windows/base/ and pick the file R-2.3.1-win32.exe. Hope this helps, Dirk -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html