[R] Problems with downloading R 1.3.0

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You don't even tell us where you are downloading from!  The files are
correct on the Vienna node, but could be broken on a mirror.

You are on JANET, so behind a cache.  Make sure you get the cache flushed,
as I suspect that there are incomplete copies in the cache (and someone,
maybe even you, terminated a download prematurely).

The recommended download is SetupR.exe: you will need to get a lot more
pieces for a complete installation than those zip files (for example
the recommended packages).

You would do better to talk to your local sysadmins than ask R-help,
as they will know about the local conditions.

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Gianfranco Lovison wrote:

> I am trying to download R.1.3 for Windows , and I have troubles with some
> of the .zip files. I am working with a laptop
> operating on Windows 98  and use Netscape 4.5 as a browser.
> I have downloaded without problems  the following files:
>
> rw1030b1.zip
> rw1030ch.zip
> rw1030d1.zip
> rw1030d2.zip
> rw1030sp.zip
>   rw1030w.zip
>
> but when I try to download
>
> rw1030b2.zip
>   rw1030h.zip
>   rw1030l.zip
>
> the download gets to some, variable percentage (usually around 95%) and
> then stops, without any error warning, and without saving anything on my
> hard disc.
> I would like to add that I have never had  problems with dowloading with
> Netscape 4.5 on my
> laptop, neither with previous versions of R nor with other files. Besides,
> I don't have problems
> now with files other that those mentioned. So I suspect it is a problem
> with the file, not
> with my computer.
> Do you have any clou for me?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Gianfranco Lovison
>
> Gianfranco Lovison
> Professor of Statistics
> Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche e Matematiche "S.Vianelli"
> Palermo - Italia
> currently visiting
> The Statistical Laboratory
> Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
> University of Cambridge - UK
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