Installing R on a PC
You can install R from the web. To do this, go to the URL
http://cran.r-project.org/
Follow the link to Precompiled Binary Distributions
to Windows.
You should be now in a page named Index of bin/windows and
then click on base.
You are now in the Index of bin/Windows/base and you
should now click on Download R 2.9.1 for Windows and
execute the file .exe created from where you saved it
(there are sensible defaults).
Installation of Contributed Packages
Contributed packages can subsequently be installed by use of
Packages in the menu at the top of a running R,
but note that the CRAN mirror should first be set to
UK (Bristol). Note that it may be necessary to begin
by clicking on the R icon and then on
Run as administrator
rather than simply running R.
Other information
Click here to return to general information
about the R program.
21 August 2009