Message-ID: <98d6e294-faad-2939-d113-d54f7cec7425@gmail.com>
Date: 2019-06-05T21:02:10Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: Offer zip builds
In-Reply-To: <CAB8pepzpAxWgFt1bHU8hF6FfMH8MBHNk6E0nNDpgtaPwScsAuQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/06/2019 4:48 p.m., Abby Spurdle wrote:
> > If they choose to continue with only EXE,
> > I will just keep using other programming languages.
>
> I did agree with your original suggestion.
> However, I don't think that a lack of zip formats, is a disincentive
> from using R.
If you don't want to run the installer, see I?aki's message for how to
extract the files without running it. I don't know if any of the
configuration done by the installer is essential; you can read the
source in https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/gnuwin32/installer if
you are curious.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> If you have an issue with the Windows installer, the obvious option is
> to install the source version, and compile from it.
>
> This is, after all, how open source is designed to work.
>
> Also, I agree with what Duncan said.
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> Abs
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