[R] trouble installing R from source on Windows 8

[Erin Hodgess]

great...thank you



On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
> wrote:

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> On 30.11.2014 06:29, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
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>> Stop using administrator. If and only if Windows prompts you for
>> permission to install, give it your password. Stay as far away from
>> administrator as you can.
>>
>
> Which is not the reason here: gzip is not on  the PATH, i.e. Erin forgot
> to put the Rtools/bin directory on her PATH...
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
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>> On November 29, 2014 8:51:23 PM PST, Erin Hodgess <
>> erinm.hodgess at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone!
>>>
>>> I'm trying to install R-3.1.2 from source on a Windows 8 laptop.
>>>
>>> I installed Rtools 3.1 as administrator and is was fine so far.
>>>
>>> Then I downloaded the R-3.1.2.tar.gz file and attempted to use the tar
>>> command,
>>> also from the shell as administrator.
>>>
>>> I keep getting the following:
>>> tar -xf R-3.1.2.tar.gz
>>> tar(child): gzip: Cannot exec: no such file or directory
>>> tar(child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>>> tar: Child returned status 2
>>> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>>>
>>> I have downloaded from several different mirrors, (both Rtools and
>>> R-3.1.2.tar.gz), and have turned off the firewall (McAfee).
>>>
>>> Has anyone else run into this, please?
>>>
>>> Thanks so much,
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Erin
>>>
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Erin Hodgess
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University of Houston - Downtown
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