[R] building zip?

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Mon May 26 13:22:49 CEST 2003


Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch at pair.com> writes:

> On 26 May 2003 12:00:02 +0200, you wrote:
> 
> >However, with the user-friendly installer, you select everythings up
> >front, and it has become much more difficult to add things to an
> >installation (why does "user-friendliness" always make something
> >harder?).
> 
> It's not hard at all:  just re-install, changing the install options.
> (It's harder to delete a component from an installation, but it always
> has been.  To do that you need to uninstall before you re-install
> everything.)  

Yes, but you have to download again if you removed the rwXXXX.exe
file, and if you modified the installation in other ways, the
modifications may get overwritten. So users may spend some time
realising that this really is the way to do it...
 
> Maybe instructions for this need to be added to the FAQ?

Could well be.


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