I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability of R for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very useful for me. Is this still available somewhere? Thanks
Portable R in zip file for Windows
18 messages · Jeff Newmiller, John Kane, PIKAL Petr +7 more
I have never used it, but Google sez look here [1]. You should learn to speak Google also. [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/rportable/
Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On January 24, 2018 7:11:49 PM PST, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote: >I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability >of R >for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very >useful for me. Is this still available somewhere? > >Thanks > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Im already aware of that. Needs the portable apps framework to work. Thanks for the cheap hit by the way
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 00:30 Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
I have never used it, but Google sez look here [1]. You should learn to speak Google also. [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/rportable/ -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On January 24, 2018 7:11:49 PM PST, Juan Manuel Truppia < jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability
of R
for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very
useful for me. Is this still available somewhere?
Thanks
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I have not done this is years, but I think that I just installed R on a USB stick and it was fine. But that was probably 10 years ago so things may have changed completely since then.
On Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 10:12:09 PM EST, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability of R for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very useful for me. Is this still available somewhere? Thanks ??? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Yes, that works, but I can't use USB sticks. It has to be a downloadable zip file
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 09:37 John Kane <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca> wrote:
I have not done this is years, but I think that I just installed R on a
USB stick and it was fine. But that was probably 10 years ago so things may
have changed completely since then.
On Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 10:12:09 PM EST, Juan Manuel Truppia <
jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability of R
for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very
useful for me. Is this still available somewhere?
Thanks
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Hm. I wonder what is your intention. R is a program, it needs to be installed somewhere. You could install it on USB stick from where it could be run. But you said you cannot use USB stick. So you need to install R program and you could probably make a zip file from this installation and put it on USB stick or to Dropbox or ... But you most probably cannot run it from this zip file directly, you need to unzip it somewhere. In that case why not install R directly to "somewhere"? Cheers Petr
-----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Juan Manuel Truppia Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 1:42 PM To: John Kane <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca> Cc: r-help at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Portable R in zip file for Windows Yes, that works, but I can't use USB sticks. It has to be a downloadable zip file On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 09:37 John Kane <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca> wrote:
I have not done this is years, but I think that I just installed R on
a USB stick and it was fine. But that was probably 10 years ago so
things may have changed completely since then.
On Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 10:12:09 PM EST, Juan Manuel Truppia <
jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability
of R for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be
very useful for me. Is this still available somewhere?
Thanks
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On Jan 25, 2018 6:38 AM, "Juan Manuel Truppia" <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
Im already aware of that. Needs the portable apps framework to work. Thanks for the cheap hit by the way Thanks for wasting everyones time by failing to mention the things you already looked at and why they were unsuitable. Please study http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html to learn how to avoid repeating this mistake. Best, Ista
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 00:30 Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
I have never used it, but Google sez look here [1]. You should learn to speak Google also. [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/rportable/ -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On January 24, 2018 7:11:49 PM PST, Juan Manuel Truppia < jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability
of R
for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very
useful for me. Is this still available somewhere?
Thanks
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I believe that the ordinary Windows installer for R can produce a portable result by choosing the appropriate configuration options from the offered screens when you run the installer Be sure to enter the desired path in the Select Destination Location screen, choose Yes on the Startup options screen and ensure that all boxes are unchecked on the Select additional tasks screen. On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Juan Manuel Truppia
<jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability of R
for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very
useful for me. Is this still available somewhere?
Thanks
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What is wrong with you guys? I asked for a zip, like R Studio has for example. Totally clear. I cant execute exes. But I can unzip files. Thanks Gabor, I had that in mind, but can't execute the exe due to security restrictions. Geez, really, treating people who ask questions this way just makes you don't want to ask a single one. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:19 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
I believe that the ordinary Windows installer for R can produce a portable result by choosing the appropriate configuration options from the offered screens when you run the installer Be sure to enter the desired path in the Select Destination Location screen, choose Yes on the Startup options screen and ensure that all boxes are unchecked on the Select additional tasks screen. On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability
of R
for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very
useful for me. Is this still available somewhere?
Thanks
[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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On Jan 25, 2018 3:05 PM, "Juan Manuel Truppia" <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
What is wrong with you guys? I asked for a zip, like R Studio has for example. Totally clear. The responsew you recieved suggest that your question was not as clear as you expected. You then treated a person trying to help you with disrespect. This is not an effective way to motivate people to help you. I cant execute exes. But I can unzip files. Thanks Gabor, I had that in mind, but can't execute the exe due to security restrictions. Again, this information should have been in your original question. By failing to mention that you had considered and rejected this option for security reasons you caused Gabor to waste time suggesting it. The bottom line is that you asked a lazy question and failed to include helpful information that would have helped people help you. You then responded rudely when people failed to read your mind. You can and should learn do better. Geez, really, treating people who ask questions this way just makes you don't want to ask a single one. Learn how to ask as I suggested and I'm confident things will go better next time. Best, Ista On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:19 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
I believe that the ordinary Windows installer for R can produce a portable result by choosing the appropriate configuration options from the offered screens when you run the installer Be sure to enter the desired path in the Select Destination Location screen, choose Yes on the Startup options screen and ensure that all boxes are unchecked on the Select additional tasks screen. On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability
of R
for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very
useful for me. Is this still available somewhere?
Thanks
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Can you please explain where you get the R-studio zip file and how you manage to run r-studio from it without expanding it. I do not see how this is possible and would be delighted if you would share that knowledge with us. Obviously this possibility has not occurred to anyone on the list John C Frain 3 Aranleigh Park Rathfarnham Dublin 14 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:frainj at tcd.ie mailto:frainj at gmail.com On 25 January 2018 at 20:04, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
What is wrong with you guys? I asked for a zip, like R Studio has for example. Totally clear. I cant execute exes. But I can unzip files. Thanks Gabor, I had that in mind, but can't execute the exe due to security restrictions. Geez, really, treating people who ask questions this way just makes you don't want to ask a single one. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:19 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
I believe that the ordinary Windows installer for R can produce a portable result by choosing the appropriate configuration options from
the
offered screens when you run the installer Be sure to enter the desired path in the Select Destination Location screen, choose Yes on the Startup options screen and ensure that all boxes are unchecked on the Select additional tasks screen. On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability
of R
for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very
useful for me. Is this still available somewhere?
Thanks
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From the R Studio downloads, look below the installers. This is off topic
however. If there is no zipped, no exe, no installation required of R, then I thank you very much for your help and trolling. (BTW, I think my question was pretty clear, concise and specific, I appreciate that some of you tried to solve a problem related to what I have, but I have already reviewed all options, and what I need is basically a zip of a working installation of the current version of R that I can download out of CRAN or a similar trusted site)
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 19:59 John C Frain <frainj at gmail.com> wrote:
Can you please explain where you get the R-studio zip file and how you manage to run r-studio from it without expanding it. I do not see how this is possible and would be delighted if you would share that knowledge with us. Obviously this possibility has not occurred to anyone on the list John C Frain 3 Aranleigh Park <https://maps.google.com/?q=3+Aranleigh+Park+Rathfarnham+Dublin&entry=gmail&source=g> Rathfarnham <https://maps.google.com/?q=3+Aranleigh+Park+Rathfarnham+Dublin&entry=gmail&source=g> Dublin <https://maps.google.com/?q=3+Aranleigh+Park+Rathfarnham+Dublin&entry=gmail&source=g> 14 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:frainj at tcd.ie mailto:frainj at gmail.com On 25 January 2018 at 20:04, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
What is wrong with you guys? I asked for a zip, like R Studio has for example. Totally clear. I cant execute exes. But I can unzip files. Thanks Gabor, I had that in mind, but can't execute the exe due to security restrictions. Geez, really, treating people who ask questions this way just makes you don't want to ask a single one. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:19 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
I believe that the ordinary Windows installer for R can produce a portable result by choosing the appropriate configuration options from
the
offered screens when you run the installer Be sure to enter the desired path in the Select Destination Location screen, choose Yes on the Startup options screen and ensure that all boxes are unchecked on the Select additional tasks screen. On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability
of R
for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very
useful for me. Is this still available somewhere?
Thanks
[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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Can you clarify what the nature of the security restriction is? If you can't run the R installer then how it is that you could run R? That would still involve running an external exe even if it came in a zip file. Could it be that the restriction is not on running exe files but on downloading them? If that is it then there are obvious workarounds (rename it not to have an exe externsion or zip it using another machine, upload to the cloud and download onto the restricted machine) but it might be safer to just ask the powers that be to download it for you. You probably don't need a new version of R more than once a year. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 3:04 PM, Juan Manuel Truppia
<jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
What is wrong with you guys? I asked for a zip, like R Studio has for example. Totally clear. I cant execute exes. But I can unzip files. Thanks Gabor, I had that in mind, but can't execute the exe due to security restrictions. Geez, really, treating people who ask questions this way just makes you don't want to ask a single one. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:19 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
I believe that the ordinary Windows installer for R can produce a portable result by choosing the appropriate configuration options from the offered screens when you run the installer Be sure to enter the desired path in the Select Destination Location screen, choose Yes on the Startup options screen and ensure that all boxes are unchecked on the Select additional tasks screen. On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability
of R
for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very
useful for me. Is this still available somewhere?
Thanks
[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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Pretty good question Gabor. I can execute R once it is installed (if someone with rights installs it before) but not the installer. I can download the installer (with some pain). I know that some installers are actually compressed files in disguise, but I think this is not the case with R, right? I will study the exact nature of the restriction, and get back to you. Nevertheless, having a installer and a "portable" version is something pretty common (R Studio, Notepad++ and 7Zip pop to my mind now) and pretty helpful to deal with security restrictions, so I thought R had one, somewhere. On Fri, Jan 26, 2018, 00:49 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
Can you clarify what the nature of the security restriction is? If you can't run the R installer then how it is that you could run R? That would still involve running an external exe even if it came in a zip file. Could it be that the restriction is not on running exe files but on downloading them? If that is it then there are obvious workarounds (rename it not to have an exe externsion or zip it using another machine, upload to the cloud and download onto the restricted machine) but it might be safer to just ask the powers that be to download it for you. You probably don't need a new version of R more than once a year. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 3:04 PM, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
What is wrong with you guys? I asked for a zip, like R Studio has for example. Totally clear. I cant execute exes. But I can unzip files. Thanks Gabor, I had that in mind, but can't execute the exe due to
security
restrictions. Geez, really, treating people who ask questions this way just makes you don't want to ask a single one. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:19 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
I believe that the ordinary Windows installer for R can produce a portable result by choosing the appropriate configuration options from
the
offered screens when you run the installer Be sure to enter the desired path in the Select Destination Location screen, choose Yes on the Startup options screen and ensure that all boxes are unchecked on the Select additional tasks screen. On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability
of R
for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very
useful for me. Is this still available somewhere?
Thanks
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Hi Juan, you might find this useful: https://sourceforge.net/projects/rportable/ Cheers, Denes
On 01/26/2018 11:57 AM, Juan Manuel Truppia wrote:
Pretty good question Gabor. I can execute R once it is installed (if someone with rights installs it before) but not the installer. I can download the installer (with some pain). I know that some installers are actually compressed files in disguise, but I think this is not the case with R, right? I will study the exact nature of the restriction, and get back to you. Nevertheless, having a installer and a "portable" version is something pretty common (R Studio, Notepad++ and 7Zip pop to my mind now) and pretty helpful to deal with security restrictions, so I thought R had one, somewhere. On Fri, Jan 26, 2018, 00:49 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
Can you clarify what the nature of the security restriction is? If you can't run the R installer then how it is that you could run R? That would still involve running an external exe even if it came in a zip file. Could it be that the restriction is not on running exe files but on downloading them? If that is it then there are obvious workarounds (rename it not to have an exe externsion or zip it using another machine, upload to the cloud and download onto the restricted machine) but it might be safer to just ask the powers that be to download it for you. You probably don't need a new version of R more than once a year. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 3:04 PM, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
What is wrong with you guys? I asked for a zip, like R Studio has for example. Totally clear. I cant execute exes. But I can unzip files. Thanks Gabor, I had that in mind, but can't execute the exe due to
security
restrictions. Geez, really, treating people who ask questions this way just makes you don't want to ask a single one. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:19 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
I believe that the ordinary Windows installer for R can produce a portable result by choosing the appropriate configuration options from
the
offered screens when you run the installer Be sure to enter the desired path in the Select Destination Location screen, choose Yes on the Startup options screen and ensure that all boxes are unchecked on the Select additional tasks screen. On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability
of R
for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very
useful for me. Is this still available somewhere?
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On 26/01/2018 5:57 AM, Juan Manuel Truppia wrote:
Pretty good question Gabor. I can execute R once it is installed (if someone with rights installs it before) but not the installer. I can download the installer (with some pain). I know that some installers are actually compressed files in disguise, but I think this is not the case with R, right? I will study the exact nature of the restriction, and get back to you. Nevertheless, having a installer and a "portable" version is something pretty common (R Studio, Notepad++ and 7Zip pop to my mind now) and pretty helpful to deal with security restrictions, so I thought R had one, somewhere.
I don't know what's involved in putting together such a thing, but my guess is that official R sources will not do so. Generally speaking, R doesn't support efforts to circumvent security safeguards. When I was a member of R Core, we used to get enough trouble from false positive warnings from virus checkers. If R Core started actively trying to support system abuse, it would cause far more trouble for them. Of course, since R is open source, there's nothing to stop some third party from putting together a way to run R despite security policies that forbid it. And nothing to stop them from inserting their own malicious code into the .zip file. Duncan Murdoch
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018, 00:49 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
Can you clarify what the nature of the security restriction is? If you can't run the R installer then how it is that you could run R? That would still involve running an external exe even if it came in a zip file. Could it be that the restriction is not on running exe files but on downloading them? If that is it then there are obvious workarounds (rename it not to have an exe externsion or zip it using another machine, upload to the cloud and download onto the restricted machine) but it might be safer to just ask the powers that be to download it for you. You probably don't need a new version of R more than once a year. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 3:04 PM, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
What is wrong with you guys? I asked for a zip, like R Studio has for example. Totally clear. I cant execute exes. But I can unzip files. Thanks Gabor, I had that in mind, but can't execute the exe due to
security
restrictions. Geez, really, treating people who ask questions this way just makes you don't want to ask a single one. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:19 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
I believe that the ordinary Windows installer for R can produce a portable result by choosing the appropriate configuration options from
the
offered screens when you run the installer Be sure to enter the desired path in the Select Destination Location screen, choose Yes on the Startup options screen and ensure that all boxes are unchecked on the Select additional tasks screen. On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the availability
of R
for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very
useful for me. Is this still available somewhere?
Thanks
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Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
What is wrong with you guys? I asked for a zip, like R Studio has for example. Totally clear. I cant execute exes. But I can unzip files. Thanks Gabor, I had that in mind, but can't execute the exe due to security restrictions. Geez, really, treating people who ask questions this way just makes you don't want to ask a single one.
Your concept of "totally clear" lacks a good deal of clarity. You pretty much ignored providing any indication of what your problem is, how you expect to run R if you can't run an executable file, or just about ANY useful information that could allow someone to help you other than something you might have read seven or eight years ago. At a wild guess you can't write to the hard drive of what ever system you are hoping to use and do not have rights to execute programs on that system. A way around that would be to run your software from a thumb drive or similar external device. So you might look at R Portable (https://sourceforge.net/projects/rportable/) which employs the PortableApps framework, but with such a sweeping lack of information from you, don't congratulate yourself if you get a helpful answer. It wasn't your fault.
When you unzip that file you have a rstudio.exe file which you appear to be able to run. As far as I know rstudio will not run unless you have a version of R already installed. The R FAQ for windows explains how to install R if you have restricted permissions and do not want or are not allowed to make any changes to the registry. Using the exe install file in this way does the same things as the zip file does in rstudio. For flash drive or CD you can substitute any area on your hard disk to which you have read/write/exeute access. As a last resort you can install in the directory that you installed rstudio. To get everything working together you will need to reset some environmental variables and /or shortcuts. You probably needed to do this already with rstudio. I think that it is very possible that you do not need a zipped file for R, The FAQ tells you how to make it relocatable. This is the answer to your question as far as I can see. If not, I and several others do not understand it. John C Frain 3 Aranleigh Park Rathfarnham Dublin 14 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:frainj at tcd.ie mailto:frainj at gmail.com On 26 January 2018 at 00:12, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
From the R Studio downloads, look below the installers. This is off topic however. If there is no zipped, no exe, no installation required of R, then I thank you very much for your help and trolling. (BTW, I think my question was pretty clear, concise and specific, I appreciate that some of you tried to solve a problem related to what I have, but I have already reviewed all options, and what I need is basically a zip of a working installation of the current version of R that I can download out of CRAN or a similar trusted site) On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 19:59 John C Frain <frainj at gmail.com> wrote:
Can you please explain where you get the R-studio zip file and how you manage to run r-studio from it without expanding it. I do not see how this is possible and would be delighted if you would share that knowledge with us. Obviously this possibility has not occurred to anyone on the list John C Frain 3 Aranleigh Park <https://maps.google.com/?q=3+Aranleigh+Park+Rathfarnham+Dublin&entry=gmail&source=g> Rathfarnham <https://maps.google.com/?q=3+Aranleigh+Park+Rathfarnham+Dublin&entry=gmail&source=g> Dublin <https://maps.google.com/?q=3+Aranleigh+Park+Rathfarnham+Dublin&entry=gmail&source=g> 14 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:frainj at tcd.ie mailto:frainj at gmail.com On 25 January 2018 at 20:04, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
What is wrong with you guys? I asked for a zip, like R Studio has for example. Totally clear. I cant execute exes. But I can unzip files. Thanks Gabor, I had that in mind, but can't execute the exe due to security restrictions. Geez, really, treating people who ask questions this way just makes you don't want to ask a single one. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 11:19 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
I believe that the ordinary Windows installer for R can produce a portable result by choosing the appropriate configuration options from
the
offered screens when you run the installer Be sure to enter the
desired
path in the Select Destination Location screen, choose Yes on the Startup options screen and ensure that all boxes are unchecked on the Select additional tasks screen. On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Juan Manuel Truppia <jmtruppia at gmail.com> wrote:
I read a message from 2009 or 2010 where it mentioned the
availability
of R
for Windows in a zip file, no installation required. It would be very
useful for me. Is this still available somewhere?
Thanks
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