[R] R and Windows 8

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 17/01/2013 9:59 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Claire Oswald
> > <claire.j.oswald at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hello:
> >>
> >> I'd like to know if R will run under Windows 8?
> >>
> >
> > I am running R on Windows 8 with no apparent problems.
>
> Actually I found one tiny problem.   If you ask which Windows version
> you are using when running under Windows 8 it tells you that you are
> using Windows 7 :
>
> > R.version.string
> [1] "R version 2.15.2 Patched (2013-01-13 r61650)"
> > win.version() ## Should be Windows 8
> [1] "Windows 7 x64 (build 9200)"

I'll fix this if someone else doesn't get there first.

Duncan Murdoch