[R] Installation of R in Windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, John Doe wrote:

> I tried to install R (V 1.9.1) on an XP Home Edition box with loads of
> disk space and 256 MB of RAM.  During installation, I get messages
> stating that some files are corrupted.  I used two copies of the install
> exe downloaded from different sites and still get the same messages at
> the same spots in the install.  What do I need to do to get around this?

Sort out the local problem with your downloading.  It may be your client,
so could you perhaps try a different browser, or ftp in binary mode?

> I ran md5sum on the downloaded exe file:
> 
> C:\WINDOWS\Temp>md5sum rw1091.exe
> c45bbe46e9a9bc1c0995e896f3bd4537 *rw1091.exe
> 
> This seems to be different from what is shown at
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/md5sum.txt:
> 
> 2e92742add3194fc22ada0cd2634ac61 *rw1091.exe
> 
> What's going on?

Something in your downloading is corrupting the file: that's the purpose
of md5sums (and the copy I just downloaded has the stated checksum).  Is
the size correct?  (21688072 bytes.)  If not, you may be running out of
some resource (temp space, for example) during the download.

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