[Rd] installling R-devel on Windows

[Gabor Grothendieck]

I tried it from another computer and it did work.  Is there some way
of installing R devel using the analog of the R --vanilla flag so that I can
do it in a reproducible manner. It seems to remember prior settings
and maybe that is a problem although one would not expect a setting
that could lead to what occurs.  I don't see anything documenting flags
on the Rtools40 page.

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 9:52 AM Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I clicked on the download link at
> https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html
> and then opened the downloaded file which starts the installation process.
> I specified a new directory that does not exist, R-test, to be sure that
> it would not get confused with an old directory.
>
> I repeated this using different directories and on different days.
>
> I tried it from a user and an Admin account.
>
> If I use the exact same procedure to install R-4.0.3patched it works.
>
> I have successfully downloaded and installed R maybe hundreds
> of times over the last 10 to 20 years and have never before
> encountered this.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 9:13 AM Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 3:00 PM Gabor Grothendieck
> > <ggrothendieck using gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > When I try to install r-devel on Windows all I get is this.  No other
> > > files.  This also occurred yesterday as well.
> >
> > It just tested it to be sure, but it works fine for me. Are you using
> > the official installer from
> > https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html ?
> >
> > The default install path is not R-test C:\Program Files\R\R-devel.
> > Perhaps you have old files lingering from previous installations that
> > cause permission problems during the installation process?
>
>
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