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6 messages · Firpo, Mike, Patrick (Malone Quantitative), Rui Barradas +2 more

Firpo, Mike
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Hello,

  Reading the FAQ, I'm confused about whether R 4.0.2 is tested on Windows 7.  I found the following:
There is no indication what date these questions and answers were posted.  If it's true that R is only tested on supported versions of Windows, that would exclude Vista and Windows 7.

  The download site doesn't mention operating system requirements.  Does 4.0.2 work on Windows 7?

Thank you,

Mike
Patrick (Malone Quantitative)
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Try it and see?

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:44 AM Firpo, Mike via R-help <
r-help at r-project.org> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Rui Barradas
    

    

      
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Hello,

Yes, R 4.0.2 works on Windows 7. As for Vista, I don't know, never tried.

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

?s 18:52 de 21/08/20, Firpo, Mike via R-help escreveu:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Duncan Murdoch
    

    

      
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I don't know the answer to your main question, but if you're interested 
in knowing when that was written, you can see here

https://github.com/wch/r-source/blame/trunk/doc/manual/R-FAQ.texi

for the main FAQ, and here:

https://github.com/wch/r-source/blame/trunk/doc/manual/rw-FAQ.texi

for the Windows FAQ.  The particular entries you were asking about were 
in the Windows FAQ and most recently updated 5 years ago (2.24) or 4 
months ago (2.2).  So there's a good chance that 2.2 is still valid, 
though like any documentation, it can get out of date without anyone 
noticing.  If you do find that R fails to run on Windows 7, you should 
like R Core know.

Duncan Murdoch

        
On 21/08/2020 1:52 p.m., Firpo, Mike via R-help wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Rasmus Liland
    

    

      
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Dear Mike,

        
On 2020-08-22 11:50 -0400, Patrick (Malone Quantitative) wrote:

        
| On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:44 AM Firpo, Mike wrote:

        
| | 
| | Hello,
| |
| | Reading the FAQ, I'm confused about 
| | whether R 4.0.2 is tested on Windows 
| | 7.  I found the following:
| |
| | | 2.24 Does R run under Windows 
| | |   Vista/7/8/Server 2008?
| | |
| | | It does. ...
| | | 
| | | 2.2 How do I install R for Windows?
| | |
| | | Current binary versions of R are 
| | | known to run on Windows 7 or 
| | | later, including on 64-bit 
| | | versions: See Can I use R on 
| | | 64-bit Windows?. Windows XP is 
| | | no longer supported.
| | |
| | | We only test on versions of 
| | | Windows currently supported by 
| | | Microsoft, mainly 64-bit Windows 
| | | 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 
| | | 10. ...
| |
| | There is no indication what date 
| | these questions and answers were 
| | posted.  

You have to dig around like a dog in SVN 
or on github.  I found in 
doc/manual/Makefile.in that rw-FAQ.html 
comes from rw-FAQ.texi; the 3.6.0 
version is in qinwang's account[1], 
selecting blame for line 623 and 150 
shows[2][3] that this was written around 
ten years ago by ripley.

Maybe you can get a SVN viewer for 
Windows and pull trunk[4] to look 
around.

| | If it's true that R is only 
| | tested on supported versions of 
| | Windows, that would exclude Vista 
| | and Windows 7.
| |
| | The download site doesn't mention 
| | operating system requirements.  Does 
| | 4.0.2 work on Windows 7?
| 
| Try it and see?

This table[5] says Windows XP was the 
latest deprecated version.

Maybe look into running something like 
Linux Mint?

Best,
Rasmus

[1] https://github.com/qinwang/R/blob/master/doc/manual/rw-FAQ.texi#L623 
[2] https://github.com/qinwang/R/commit/5b8d4d50aa8ac7989dec5d3c571c89c1dd6d6466
[3] https://github.com/qinwang/R/commit/dc8e21174441426237c6af1dff697784eac8d7c1
[4] https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)#Milestones

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Patrick, Rui, Murdoch, and Rasmus,

  Thank you for your responses.  It may not be fair of me to send out that request just before leaving on vacation for a week.  I appreciate you getting back to me.

All the best,

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Rasmus Liland <jral at posteo.no> 
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2020 9:57 AM
To: Patrick (Malone Quantitative) <malone at malonequantitative.com>; Firpo, Mike <firpo2 at llnl.gov>
Cc: R-help <r-help at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] System Requirements

Dear Mike,

        
On 2020-08-22 11:50 -0400, Patrick (Malone Quantitative) wrote:

        
| On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:44 AM Firpo, Mike wrote:

        
| | 
| | Hello,
| |
| | Reading the FAQ, I'm confused about whether R 4.0.2 is tested on 
| | Windows 7.  I found the following:
| |
| | | 2.24 Does R run under Windows 
| | |   Vista/7/8/Server 2008?
| | |
| | | It does. ...
| | | 
| | | 2.2 How do I install R for Windows?
| | |
| | | Current binary versions of R are
| | | known to run on Windows 7 or
| | | later, including on 64-bit
| | | versions: See Can I use R on
| | | 64-bit Windows?. Windows XP is
| | | no longer supported.
| | |
| | | We only test on versions of
| | | Windows currently supported by
| | | Microsoft, mainly 64-bit Windows
| | | 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 10. ...
| |
| | There is no indication what date
| | these questions and answers were
| | posted.  

You have to dig around like a dog in SVN or on github.  I found in doc/manual/Makefile.in that rw-FAQ.html comes from rw-FAQ.texi; the 3.6.0 version is in qinwang's account[1], selecting blame for line 623 and 150 shows[2][3] that this was written around ten years ago by ripley.

Maybe you can get a SVN viewer for
Windows and pull trunk[4] to look
around.

| | If it's true that R is only
| | tested on supported versions of
| | Windows, that would exclude Vista
| | and Windows 7.
| |
| | The download site doesn't mention
| | operating system requirements.  Does
| | 4.0.2 work on Windows 7?
| 
| Try it and see?

This table[5] says Windows XP was the
latest deprecated version.

Maybe look into running something like
Linux Mint?

Best,
Rasmus

[1] https://github.com/qinwang/R/blob/master/doc/manual/rw-FAQ.texi#L623
[2] https://github.com/qinwang/R/commit/5b8d4d50aa8ac7989dec5d3c571c89c1dd6d6466
[3] https://github.com/qinwang/R/commit/dc8e21174441426237c6af1dff697784eac8d7c1
[4] https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)#Milestones