[R-sig-teaching] Installing R into my computer

[John Fox]

Dear Jan and Ali,

I haven't followed this thread, so I apologize if my information is off-base
or redundant.

I expect that Ali simply wants to install R on a Windows machine, in which
case he would be well advised to download and use the Windows installer for
R rather than download the source distribution of R. The installer is
available on CRAN at <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/> or,
better, at the analogous location on a nearby mirror site.

I hope this helps,
 John

--------------------------------
John Fox
Senator William McMaster 
  Professor of Social Statistics
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-teaching-bounces at r-project.org
[mailto:r-sig-teaching-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Jan Vandermeer
> Sent: November-13-10 9:50 AM
> To: Ali Zanaty
> Cc: r-sig-teaching at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] Installing R into my computer
> 
> Hi Ali;
> 
> You need to install a program like 7Zip <http://www.7-zip.org/> which will
> allow you to untar and install the *.tar file.
> 
> 7Zip unpacks tars, rars, zips and their own proprietary 7z compaction
> methods.
> 
> *7-Zip* is *open source* software. Most of the source code is under the
*GNU
> LGPL* license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR
> restrictions. Check license information here: 7-Zip
> license<http://www.7-zip.org/license.txt>
> .
> 
> You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial
> organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.
> 
> Just as R is open source and under a similar license.
> 
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Ali Zanaty <zanaty2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dear All R Users:
> >
> > I am trying to install R into my computer. I downloaded R-2.12.0.tar and
> > the old
> > version R-2.6.2.tar. But when I tried to double click on the the file(s)
it
> > did
> > not install the program, it says Windows cannot open this file:
> >
> > File: R-2.12.0.tar.gz
> >
> > To open this file, windows needs to know what progrm created it, ....
> >
> > What do you want to do?
> >
> > Use the Web sercvice to find the approperiate program
> > Select the program from a list.
> >
> > I think I  am missing something, but I do not know what it is?
> >
> > Thanks for your helps.
> >
> > Ali
> >
> >
> >
> >        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > R-sig-teaching at r-project.org mailing list
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
> >
> 
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
> _______________________________________________
> R-sig-teaching at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching