[R] System Requirements

[Firpo, Mike]

Patrick, Rui, Murdoch, and Rasmus,

  Thank you for your responses.  It may not be fair of me to send out that request just before leaving on vacation for a week.  I appreciate you getting back to me.

All the best,

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Rasmus Liland <jral using posteo.no> 
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2020 9:57 AM
To: Patrick (Malone Quantitative) <malone using malonequantitative.com>; Firpo, Mike <firpo2 using llnl.gov>
Cc: R-help <r-help using r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] System Requirements

Dear Mike,

On 2020-08-22 11:50 -0400, Patrick (Malone Quantitative) wrote:
| On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:44 AM Firpo, Mike wrote:
| | 
| | Hello,
| |
| | Reading the FAQ, I'm confused about whether R 4.0.2 is tested on 
| | Windows 7.  I found the following:
| |
| | | 2.24 Does R run under Windows 
| | |   Vista/7/8/Server 2008?
| | |
| | | It does. ...
| | | 
| | | 2.2 How do I install R for Windows?
| | |
| | | Current binary versions of R are
| | | known to run on Windows 7 or
| | | later, including on 64-bit
| | | versions: See Can I use R on
| | | 64-bit Windows?. Windows XP is
| | | no longer supported.
| | |
| | | We only test on versions of
| | | Windows currently supported by
| | | Microsoft, mainly 64-bit Windows
| | | 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 10. ...
| |
| | There is no indication what date
| | these questions and answers were
| | posted.  

You have to dig around like a dog in SVN or on github.  I found in doc/manual/Makefile.in that rw-FAQ.html comes from rw-FAQ.texi; the 3.6.0 version is in qinwang's account[1], selecting blame for line 623 and 150 shows[2][3] that this was written around ten years ago by ripley.

Maybe you can get a SVN viewer for
Windows and pull trunk[4] to look
around.

| | If it's true that R is only
| | tested on supported versions of
| | Windows, that would exclude Vista
| | and Windows 7.
| |
| | The download site doesn't mention
| | operating system requirements.  Does
| | 4.0.2 work on Windows 7?
| 
| Try it and see?

This table[5] says Windows XP was the
latest deprecated version.

Maybe look into running something like
Linux Mint?

Best,
Rasmus

[1] https://github.com/qinwang/R/blob/master/doc/manual/rw-FAQ.texi#L623
[2] https://github.com/qinwang/R/commit/5b8d4d50aa8ac7989dec5d3c571c89c1dd6d6466
[3] https://github.com/qinwang/R/commit/dc8e21174441426237c6af1dff697784eac8d7c1
[4] https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)#Milestones