[Rd] Preview of rw1030

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I've put up at

http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/SetupR.exe

a (15Mb) `release candidate' of rw1030.  It's a snapshot of the complete
release but not everything (especially the recommended packages) is in
final form.

I would particularly be interested in feedback on two points:

1) The claim is that utilities like Rcmd check now work on 16-bit versions
of Windows.  Certainly with the latest perl (626) I was able to do all I
tested, including installing and checking bundles, on Windows 98.

2) There are inbuilt capabilities to download files (and more), and
update.packages() can be run from a menu.  Does this work on old low-end
systems?  If not, does the alternative given in CHANGES work?

Also on anything else ... we will be doing more checking before release.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

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