[R] cannot install RWinEdt

[Cynthia Yeung - NOAA Federal]

I am an intermediate R user with little understanding of the working of R
packages.
My problem is with the package RWinEdt.

I was using using WinEdt 6 with R 3.1.3 and R-Sweave-6 in Windows 7 rather
smoothly.
Then I got a brand new computer,still running windows 7.
I installed R 3.1.3, no new packages except the base packages.
I installed WinEdt 6.
I cannot get RWinEdt to install.
I tried:
RWinEdt_2.0-4.tar.gz
RWinEdt2.0-0.zip
RWinEdt_1.6-2.zip
nothing worked.

Error messages from trying different strategies include:

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> install.packages("RWinEdt", type="source")
trying URL 'http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/contrib/RWinEdt_2.0-5.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 590307 bytes (576 KB)
opened URL
downloaded 576 KB

* installing *source* package 'RWinEdt' ...
** package 'RWinEdt' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs

*** arch - i386
Warning: running command 'make -f "Makevars.win" -f
"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.3/etc/i386/Makeconf" -f
"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.3/share/make/winshlib.mk" SHLIB="RWinEdt.dll"
OBJECTS="ismdi.o"' had status 127
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'RWinEdt'
* removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.1.3/library/RWinEdt'

The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘C:\Users\cy\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpgdAJ2x\downloaded_packages’
Warning messages:
1: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.3/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l
"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.1.3\library"
C:\Users\CYNTHI~1.YEU\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpgdAJ2x/downloaded_packages/RWinEdt_2.0-5.tar.gz'
had status 1
2: In install.packages("RWinEdt", type = "source") :
  installation of package ‘RWinEdt’ had non-zero exit status
> library(RWinEdt)
Error in library(RWinEdt) : there is no package called ‘RWinEdt’
> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA, type =
type) :
  no packages were specified

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******* 2 ********
> install.packages("D:/Documents/Downloads/RWinEdt_1.8-3.tar.gz", repos =
NULL, type="source")
* installing *source* package 'RWinEdt' ...
** libs

*** arch - i386
Warning: running command 'make -f "Makevars.win" -f
"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.3/etc/i386/Makeconf" -f
"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.3/share/make/winshlib.mk" SHLIB="RWinEdt.dll"
OBJECTS="ismdi.o"' had status 127
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'RWinEdt'
* removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.1.3/library/RWinEdt'
Warning messages:
1: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-31~1.3/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l
"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.1.3\library"
"D:/Documents/Downloads/RWinEdt_1.8-3.tar.gz"' had status 1
2: In install.packages("D:/Documents/Downloads/RWinEdt_1.8-3.tar.gz",  :
  installation of package ‘D:/Documents/Downloads/RWinEdt_1.8-3.tar.gz’ had
non-zero exit status
> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
package ‘RWinEdt’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> library(RWinEdt)
Error: package ‘RWinEdt’ was built before R 3.0.0: please re-install it
> install.packages('RWinEdt')

   package ‘RWinEdt’ is available as a source package but not as a binary

Warning message:
package ‘RWinEdt’ is not available (as a binary package for R version
3.1.3)

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> install.packages('RWinEdt')
Warning: unable to access index for repository
http://www.rforge.net/bin/windows/contrib/3.1

   package ‘RWinEdt’ is available as a source package but not as a binary

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Appreciate any help.

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