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[Jeff Newmiller]

Your confusion would be alleviated if you read the whole thing. E.g.

Questions likely to prompt discussion unintelligible to non-programmers should rather go to R-devel than R-help. [...] For example, questions involving C, C++, etc. code should go to R-devel.

It is unfortunate that the errors involved in installing R on some platforms involve understanding C, but it is a reality that goes with such broad platform support and parsing through C compiler errors is not what this list is about.

In addition, anything you do with a patched or development version of R bears the risk of incomplete support, discussion of which belongs on R-devel. Patched versions are intended to fix specific bugs, so if you are not immediately inconvenienced by such a bug or are not prepared to help fix or at least troubleshoot problems then you probably should not be installing those versions. 
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Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On October 14, 2017 12:07:37 PM GMT+01:00, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman at gmx.net> wrote:
>On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:49:16 +0100 Jeff Newmiller
><jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>
>> Off topic. Read the Posting Guide.
>
>I did do that before posting; the choice seemed to be between R-help
>("intended to be comprehensible to people who want to use R to solve
>problems but who are not necessarily interested in or knowledgeable
>about programming") and R-devel ("for questions and discussion about R
>development and programming").  Obviously I need to install R before I
>can use it, and in my case I had to build it before I could install it,
>and running the tests is recommended, and that's where the issue arose;
>I couldn't tell if this was due to a bug in R or something on my end,
>i.e., I needed help, so that's why I asked here.  If you think R-devel
>is the right address, I'll ask there.
>
>Steve Berman