[R] Preview of an alternative R for Windows installer

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I have built a version of the current 1.2.2 patched version of R using
Inno Setup2 (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm).  (That toolkit is
open source (in Delphi) and was fairly easy to tame. Full details are
in the R-patched sources.) This gives a single ~10Mb file, at

http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/SetupR.exe

The idea is that it should look very like a Windows 2000-style install,
and so be intuitive to Windows users.  It comes with an uninstaller, too.
On NT/2000 should install for all users from an administrator account,
for the current user otherwise.

This was built from my everyday-use version of R so should be a better
version than rw1022 for routine use.  However, this is not an official 
release!

I would appreciate feedback on this: in particular 

   if people like it,
   
   if `c:/Program Files/R/rw1023' is a good default install folder,
   
   if there is still a need for floppy-sized installs (which Inno Setup
   can generate).

Direct feedback to me only, please.

If the reaction is positive, my intentions are to make both forms of
installation available for 1.2.3, and then only this form from 1.3.0.

Winhlp files are deliberately missing: if anyone objects to dropping those
for 1.3.0 please let me know.

B

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

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