On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 5:47 PM Jim Hester <james.f.hes...@gmail.com> wrote: > We can remove much of this ambiguity by changing the default choice in > the installer to only install the 64 bit version in the installer. If > users do need the 32 bit version it is still simple for them to > install it by checking the appropriate box during installation.
I tested the patch and confirm that this works as intended. By default, the R installer will leave the "32-bit Files" unchecked on Windows 64 machines. I also think this proposal makes sense. Most users do not need 2 versions of R on their machine, and it is a common source of problems. I agree with Jim that installing the 32bit version of R on 64bit Windows would better be opt-in rather than default. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
