On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 13:07 -0800, Spencer Graves wrote: > Hi, All: > > I'm having trouble installing MinGW 5.0.3, trying to follow Duncan > Murdoch's suggestions (http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/). I > download "MinGW-5.0.3.exe" as he suggested. After double-clicking on > it, I get past "Welcome to MinGW" and select either "Download and > install" or "Download only" and choose to install "Current". Whether I > select only "MinGW base tools" or that plus "g++" and "g77" compilers, I get > the following error message while "Downloading > mingw-runtime-3.10.tar.gz": > > "InetClinet plug-in: Your internet connection seems to be not > permitted or dropped out! Please reconnect and click Retry to resume > installation." > > After clicking "cancel", I got the following error message: > > downloading mingw-runtime-3.10.tar.gz > SendRequest Error > Could not download > http://error.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mingw/mingw-runtime-3.10.tar.gz! > > I got this on two computers, one running Windows 2000 server and > the other using Windows XP 5.1, Service Pack 2. > > What do you suggest I try to get past this? > Thanks, > Spencer Graves
Trying that URL in a browser, it indicates that there is no such server. The following URL: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-runtime-3.11.tar.gz?download does get a file, note however that the most recent version appears to be 3.11, not 3.10. The home page for the project is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/ There appears to be a more up to date version of MinGW (5.1.2) however, I would defer to Duncan as to related issues, since I don't run Windows. HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
