[R] Problem installing R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Niggley, Jason wrote:

> As I am installing R for windows, I get the following error:
> 
> "C:\ProgramFiles\R\rw1091\library\stats\chtml\stats.chm

Is that really not Program Files?

> An error occurred while trying to copy a file:
> 
> The source file is corrupted."
> 
> Can you help me?

Please go back to the page you got the installer from, note what it says
about md5sums, and check them.  I suspect you will find you have a
corrupted download and need to download again, possibly using a better 
download program.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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