[Rd] Re: Download problems with Windows version

[Friedrich Leisch]

>>>>> On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:42:21 +0100 ,
>>>>> marcel baumgartner (mb) wrote:

  > Hello,
  > I tried to download the Windows version of R at the cran site,
  > but I cannot get down to the files. When clicking on the on
  > any of the windows sources, you create strange links:

  > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/windows-NT

  > then, clicking again it becomes

  > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/windows-NT/windows-NT

  > and so on ...

  > The same happens at the mirror site at ETH Zurich. I use IE 5.5.


>>>>> On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 14:44:19 -0500,
>>>>> Paul Gilbert (PG) wrote:

  > The links to windows-9x and windows-NT on the CRAN Windows download page
  > seem to be broken. I have the impression that the files are all in the
  > base directory, for which the link works.

  > Also, the ReadMe.rw1022 makes no mention of the file rw1022wh.zip.



These are recursive links for backwards compatibilty, and have been in
place for a couple of months now. Simply go to

	http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base
	http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib

for the base sytem or contributed packages, respectively.

Older versions of R expect to find the contributed packages in 

	http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/windows-NT/contrib

and removing the links would break install.packages() there. I'll add
some message in the directory to make things clearer.

Best,
Fritz

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