Their automatic installer is a bit flaky. You may need to install the packages manually. And as Marc pointed out, 5.0.3 is no longer the latest. I haven't tried 5.1.2 yet, but I'll probably update soon.
Duncan Murdoch On 12/21/2006 4:07 PM, 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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
