[R] Regarding Vista

[christian.ritter at shell.com]

Thanks Brian. 

Working for one of these large corporations, I receive a considerable amount of mails requesting me to verify whether software I use (and which was made avalailable via company wide installers on my request) is Vista compatible. It's not that these big companies will roll out Vista right away, but they want to be sure that if they do, things will go fine ... and also to weed out software (all those who cannot prove Vista compatibility go on the black list until they get cleared). With respect to R and Vista, I guess I'll have to get my hand on a machine running Vista on which I have administrator privileges. 

Chris.

-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, 28 March, 2007 3:08 PM
To: Ritter, Christian C GSMCIL-GSTMS/2
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Regarding Vista


On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, christian.ritter at shell.com wrote:

> The Vista issue is not innocent as it threatens the life of R within 
> large corporations. So any posts on how R runs under Vista and what has 
> to be done to make it work and what cannot be done etc will be very 
> useful.

See the rw-FAQ in the R-2.5.0 alpha versions and later.  That contains all 
that we have seen reported, wiht documented workarounds.

My understanding is that there are no Vista issues per se with R, but 
there are permission issues just as there are under 2000/XP if set up to 
the same levels of security as are the defaults in Vista.  (Further, 
that agrees with advice from someone within Microsoft who uses R.)

We do not intend to roll out Vista for several months, and it would 
surprise me if 'large corporations' would do so without ensuring that 
there is full software compatibility.

>
> Chris
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Uwe Ligges
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 March, 2007 1:10 PM
> To: gyadav at ccilindia.co.in
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> Subject: Re: [R] Regarding Vista
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> gyadav at ccilindia.co.in wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> Does R supports Vista Business and Vista Home Premium. I am planning to
>> upgrade my system. Before that I just wanted to confirm whether R will
>> work on Vista or not.
>
> Although R Core does not officially support Vista, AFAIK, we have heard
> of working installations on 32-bit versions of Vista.
> Check the mailing list archives for hints on installing additional
> packages, if that won't work at once for you.
>
> Uwe Ligges
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>
>> Thanks for this help in advance
>> -gaurav
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