Thanks Peter. I tried running the uninstalled R; it worked. I checked
on the existence of FAQ, etc. --- yep everything was there. I don't
know about over-zealous virus checkers; I haven't overtly installed any
such.
So, mystified, I started all over again from scratch. This time it
work
> On 05 Mar 2016, at 03:35 , Rolf Turner wrote:
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> I am trying to install the latest development version of R so as to be able
> to perform a package check according the rules specified for CRAN.
>
> I performed the following steps:
>
> (1) Downloaded R-devel.tar.gz, dated 04-Mar-2016 03
