On 22/03/2018 5:28 AM, Holger Taschenberger wrote:
Dear Duncan,
thank you for your reply.
On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:58:15 -0400
Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
The Windows FAQ 2.2 says, "Windows XP is no longer supported", so I think you're out of
luck. XP went past "end-of-life" in 2014.
on <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/README.R-3.4.4> it says
"R 3.4.4 for Windows
===================
This distribution contains a binary distribution of R-3.4.4 to run on
Windows XP and later (including 64-bit versions of Windows) on ix86
and x86_64 chips."
Looks as though that file wasn't updated when the FAQ was. I am the one
responsible for that omission, but I can't fix it now, as I retired from
the core team last year. The file to fix is src/gnuwin32/CRAN/ReadMe.in.
Other than switching to a more recent Windows version, your choices are
switching to a completely different OS, or switching to an older version of R.
R i386 runs without problems on Windows XP up to and including version 3.4.2.
Only R i386 3.4.3 & R i386 3.4.4 cannot access the internet on my Windows XP.
I supposed this is not so much a problem with the OS (because "IdnToAscii"
exists on WindowsXP SP3 as well), but rather with the header files and/or import
libraries of the MinGW environment
Perhaps it does not take too much effort to restore WindowsXP compatibility.
The described symptoms are at least easy to debug.
I know that WindowsXP is no longer supported by Microsoft. However, I work in
an academic environment and we are stuck to Windows XP on some computers
because some of our data acquisition devices are only properly supported on
that OS.
In that case, I'd recommend leaving R 3.4.2 on those old machines, and
doing your main work on different ones.
Regardless of your conclusion, I'm thankful to the R developer team to make the
R software freely available to the scientific community.
Duncan Murdoch
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