[R] Broken links (???) in rw-FAQ

[Chel Hee Lee]

Thank you so much, David!   I also confirmed that the link moved is not 
found.

Chel Hee Lee

On 15-06-24 04:15 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
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> On Jun 24, 2015, at 10:52 AM, Chel Hee Lee wrote:
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>> Could you also kindly check the following links in the rw-FAQ manual at <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html>??  The links list in the below seem to be broken.   I hope these links are fixed in the very near future.
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>> Under the section 2.4 Can I customize the installation?
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>> * Setup (http://jrsoftware.org/ishelp.php) for details.
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>> Under the section 3.3 I want to run R in Chinese/Japanese/Korean
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>> * http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/html/_crt_language_and_country_strings.asp
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>> Under the section 2.26 There is no tilde on my keyboard!
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>> * http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP052590631033.aspx
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> With regard to this one, there was a discussion of this just yesterday in StackOverflow (relative to Italian keyboards which don't seem to be mentioned in the current version of the rw-FAQ). Admittedly this material is not immediately relevant to a windows setup since the question was coming from a Linux user.
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31015152/how-to-type-tilde-in-r
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>   http://superuser.com/questions/667622/italian-keyboard-entering-the-tilde-and-backtick-characters-without-cha
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> Looking at some of the linked material, it appears that Windows and Linux have distinctly different answers to tilde-deficient keyboard concerns, so there might be a reason to move a more general answer to R-FAQ and perhaps include material in the section on Internationalization? I could find no mention of tilde-problems in the R-FAQ or the Admin/Setup document.
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>> This link is in fact moved to
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>> https://support.office.com/en-us/article/HP052590631?CorrelationId=98eaa529-e95a-4628-90ac-1a1da4526b17
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> That link was 404-ed when I tried it.
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>> Under the section 2.24 Does R run under Windows Vista/7/8/Server 2008?
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>> * http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/01/23/security-features-vs-convenience.aspx
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>> I appreciate your help!
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>> Chel Hee Lee
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