hadley wickham wrote:
1. avoid clicking on the "R version 2.8.1" link - that takes you to a
directory listing of strangely named files
Yes, this is of course much harder than avoiding to read the two bullet
points labeled "Getting Started"
2. recognise that you need to click on an CRAN (what is a cran?)
Clicking on the words "CRAN mirror" never comes to people's mind. I
mean, it's not like the first line of the link explains the acronym, is it?
3. successfully select a mirror that is up-to-date (with no
information about which mirrors are up-to-date)
Of course the R project website is required to keep track of that.
4. click Windows (ok, this one is easy)
5. guess that base is the "distribution" that you want
Yes, there are two links so people will take the other one.
6. phew, you're there (but don't follow the advice to download from a
mirror near you or you'll be back at step 3)
Its even more confusing than that because actually you're not there
yet! You have to click on the unobtrusive patched link and then
download that or you get the version with the bugs.
Wow, I'd never noticed that before!
However, you are only supposed to need it if you are one of the
exceedingly rare users who happens to be bitten by a bug that went
undiscovered through several weeks of user testing.
(Warning: The above may contain traces of sarcasm...)
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