[R] R Statistical Package Installation

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 5, 2011, at 6:56 AM, Nasir Afsar wrote:

> Dear R-project team,
> I have tried but could not install the R statistical package (http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/ 
>  ) even after the help of my institute's IT personnel. The setup  
> file could not be downloaded. The latest file R-2.12.2.tar.gz<http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/src/base/R-2/R-2.12.2.tar.gz 
> > does not start installation wizard. Kindly extend the technical  
> support.

That is a source file. Are you properly prepared for a source  
installation on what ever OS (which I do not see mentioned) you might  
be targetting?

(I have trimmed my reply to go only to r-help. It is considered  
impolite to send to both r-help and r-devel for a basic question like  
this.)

>
> Best regards.
>
> Dr. Nasir Ali Afsar  MBBS, M.Phil.
> Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology,
> College of Medicine,
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT