Preview of an alternative R for Windows installer
I have built a version of the current 1.2.2 patched version of R using Inno Setup2 (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm). (That toolkit is open source (in Delphi) and was fairly easy to tame. Full details are in the R-patched sources.) This gives a single ~10Mb file, at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/SetupR.exe The idea is that it should look very like a Windows 2000-style install, and so be intuitive to Windows users. It comes with an uninstaller, too. On NT/2000 should install for all users from an administrator account, for the current user otherwise. This was built from my everyday-use version of R so should be a better version than rw1022 for routine use. However, this is not an official release! I would appreciate feedback on this: in particular if people like it, if `c:/Program Files/R/rw1023' is a good default install folder, if there is still a need for floppy-sized installs (which Inno Setup can generate). Direct feedback to me only, please. If the reaction is positive, my intentions are to make both forms of installation available for 1.2.3, and then only this form from 1.3.0. Winhlp files are deliberately missing: if anyone objects to dropping those for 1.3.0 please let me know. B
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