Mention that R should be installed before running our installer

This came up in response to the v0.1 release announcement on
discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org [1].

[1]: http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2014-August/001932.html

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b30877843c7cd6d0a003a29e4776a18115f85755..262fe63cf13821797f2497d6590ab14e3b4026a8 100644 (file)
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ To use:
 1. Install [Python][], [IPython][], and [Nose][nose].  An easy way to
    do this is with the [Anaconda CE][Anaconda-CE] Python distribution.
 2. [Install msysGit][msysgit-install]
-3. Run `swc-windows-installer.py`.  You should be able to simply
+3. [Install R][R-install] (if your workshop uses R).
+4. Run `swc-windows-installer.py`.  You should be able to simply
    double click the file in Windows.
 
 [msysGit]: http://msysgit.github.io/
@@ -27,4 +28,5 @@ To use:
 [Nose]: https://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
 [nosetests]: https://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage.html
 [R]: http://www.r-project.org/
+[R-install]: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#Installation-and-Usage
 [Anaconda-CE]: http://continuum.io/anacondace.html

diff --git a/swc-windows-installer.py b/swc-windows-installer.py
index 40fe336ee2a6c8c6c94d7665a27fe8381c023e1c..ae41a8dd686ba22fd65cea9641c019fddd71a50f 100755 (executable)
--- a/swc-windows-installer.py
+++ b/swc-windows-installer.py
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ To use:
    http://continuum.io/anacondace.html
 2. Install msysGit
    https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/releases
-3. Run swc-windows-installer.py.
+3. Install R (if your workshop uses R)
+   http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#Installation-and-Usage
+4. Run swc-windows-installer.py.
    You should be able to simply double click the file in Windows
 
 """