(R-admin.info)Installing R under Windows

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3 Installing R under Windows
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The 'bin/windows' directory of a CRAN site contains binaries for a base
distribution and a large number of add-on packages from CRAN to run on
32- or 64-bit Windows (Windows 7 and later are tested; XP is known to
fail some tests) on 'ix86' and 'x86_64' CPUs.

   Your file system must allow long file names (as is likely except
perhaps for some network-mounted systems).  If it doesn't also support
conversion to short name equivalents (a.k.a.  DOS 8.3 names), then R
_must_ be installed in a path that does not contain spaces.

   Installation is _via_ the installer 'R-3.5.2-win.exe'.  Just
double-click on the icon and follow the instructions.  When installing
on a 64-bit version of Windows the options will include 32- or 64-bit
versions of R (and the default is to install both).  You can uninstall R
from the Control Panel.

   Note that you will be asked to choose a language for installation,
and that choice applies to both installation and un-installation but not
to running R itself.

   See the R Windows FAQ
(https://CRAN.R-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html) for more
details on the binary installer.

Building from source

Testing a Windows Installation