Hi John;

You are right. I was trying to answer the immediate question. I would
definitely be simpler to use the install. I run R under Gentoo Linux and I
guess we all get set in particular ways of doing things.,

Jan

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:55 AM, John Fox <jfox@mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> 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@r-project.org
> [mailto:r-sig-teaching-bounces@r-
> > project.org] On Behalf Of Jan Vandermeer
> > Sent: November-13-10 9:50 AM
> > To: Ali Zanaty
> > Cc: r-sig-teaching@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@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
> > >
> > >
> > >
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