From 4870e8cbe6a585a61a11ce45b68a6ade404ff1e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:35:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] 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
---
 README.md                | 4 +++-
 swc-windows-installer.py | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b308778..262fe63 100644
--- 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 40fe336..ae41a8d 100755
--- 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
 
 """
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