Quite nice and simple. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.Thanks a lot.
Regards,

Ajay


www.decisionstats.com

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca>wrote:

> Hadley put together a couple of nice versions of the main Windows download
> page cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base, and I've adopted one of them for
> the release, and the patched and devel snapshot builds. They should show up
> on CRAN in a few hours.
>
> Thanks a lot for the contribution, Hadley:  I hope you also get involved in
> the larger CRAN redesign mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> On 2/3/2009 9:20 AM, hadley wickham wrote:
>
>> Again I'd disagree, perhaps the most widely used suite of software has a
>>> very simple and clean web-site with few bells and whistles, ditto for one
>>> of
>>> the most popular text-editors.  I am of course referring to the suite of
>>> GNU
>>> utilities (http://www.gnu.org/) that make a working GNU/Linux
>>> distribution
>>> and Emacs (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ ).
>>>
>>> I like the R web-site, its clean and simple, present key information
>>> prominently (manuals, docs, CRAN, RNew and mailing lists).
>>>
>>
>> Have you ever used the R website?
>>
>> To download the latest version for R for windows you have to:
>>
>>  1. avoid clicking on the "R version 2.8.1" link - that takes you to a
>> directory listing of strangely named files
>>
>>  2. recognise that you need to click on an CRAN (what is a cran?)
>>
>>  3. successfully select a mirror that is up-to-date (with no
>> information about which mirrors are up-to-date)
>>
>>  4. click Windows (ok, this one is easy)
>>
>>  5. guess that base is the "distribution" that you want
>>
>>  6. phew, you're there (but don't follow the advice to download from a
>> mirror near you or you'll be back at step 3)
>>
>> And then if you want to email the url of that page to someone else you
>> have to jump through hoops because it's embedded in a frame.
>>
>> Hadley
>>
>>
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