[R] trouble with uninstall

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 02:46:42 CEST 2011


On 11-07-25 4:50 PM, John Hangen wrote:
> Hello,
> Today I installed R for Windows version 2.13.1, but realized that it's not something that I need right now.    I attempted to uninstall it, but am getting the following error message:

A brute force uninstall is fairly easy:  just delete the directory it 
was installed in.  It will leave some registry entries behind, but those 
should be harmless.

If you can give more details on where you downloaded it from and what 
options you chose when you installed it, it would be appreciated.  I 
just tried an install and uninstall of the CRAN 2.13.1 version on 32 bit 
XP and had no errors.

Duncan Murdoch

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> "This Installation can only be uninstalled on 64-bit Windows."
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> I am running Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, SP 3.
>
> I've also tried the unins000.exe file as suggested in the help, and I get the same "64-bit Windows" message with that executable.
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> Mainly I'm wondering if there is a workaround for this issue, or an alternative method for uninstalling so I can circumvent the error message.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> John
>
> John W. Hangen, GISP
> GIS Coordinator
> City of Milford, CT
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