Hi, Duncan, Marc: Thanks. MinGW 5.1.2 seemed to install OK. Best Wishes, Spencer Graves
Duncan Murdoch wrote: > 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