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R for Windows 4.2.1

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  • Latest Version

    R for Windows 4.4.2

  • Operating System

    Windows 7 / Windows 7 64 / Windows 8 / Windows 8 64 / Windows 10 / Windows 10 64 / Windows 11

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  • Author / Product

    The R Foundation / External Link

  • Filename

    R-4.2.1-win.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

    fde08d4607dd6cef6768bb18999360ad

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of R for Windows 4.2.1.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of R for Windows or reading our review, simply click here.


All old versions distributed on our website are completely virus-free and available for download at no cost.


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What's new in this version:

New features:
- New function utils::findCRANmirror() to find out if a CRAN mirror has been selected, otherwise fallback to the main site. This behaves in the same way as tools::CRAN_package_db() and is intended for packages wishing to access CRAN for purposes other than installing packages.
- The need for this was shown by a day when the main CRAN website was offline and a dozen or so packages which had its URL hardcoded failed their checks

Installation on a Unix-alike:
- The libraries searched for by --with-blas (without a value) now include BLIS (after OpenBLAS but before ATLAS)
- The included LAPACK sources have been updated to 3.10.1

Utilities:
- The (full path to) the command tidy to be used for HTML validation can be set by environment variable R_TIDYCMD
- Setting environment variable _R_CHECK_RD_VALIDATE_RD2HTML_ to a false value will override R CMD check --as-cran and turn off HTML validation. This provides a way to circumvent a problematic.