[R] Installing R on cygwin

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Deb Midya wrote:

> Hi R users, ? Thanks?in advance. ? Is it possible to install R on 
> cygwin? If yes, can anyone assist me how can I install R on cygwin?

That *is* described in the 'R Installation and Administration' manual.

> ? Currently, I am using R on Windows XP. I have found that binary 
> version of some packages such as RCurl is not available.?

Someone has been to a lot of trouble to make RCurl available to you, 
on the CRAN(extras) repository you will see as a default repository on 
the Rgui menus.

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> Once again, thank you very much for the time you have given.
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> Regards,
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> Deb
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