2.10 Installing Rattle on Windows using Zip

Before installing Rattle be sure to install R as detailed in Section 2.9.

Then download the zip archive:

You can also download the zip archive from the command line if you have wget installed:

wget https://access.togaware.com/rattleng-dev-windows.zip -O rattleng-dev-windows.zip

Open the file and double tap on the rattle app. You will be asked to Extract all. You could extract it to a new folder called rattle on your Desktop but it can be anywhere. You can add the unzipped path to the system PATH environment variable or create a shortcut to add to your desktop.

Now start up the unzipped rattle and you will see the Windows protected your PC message. Tap the More info link to then Run anyway.

If you come across any problems installing or running Rattle on Windows see Section 2.12.



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