OK, just uncovered the Known Issues on the Release Notes page (why is it folded out of site on page load?) to see that there is a patch to resolve this.
This bug report can go away, but maybe consider not hiding "Known Issues" unless you routinely have thousands of them.
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Subject: [rt.cpan.org #120570] AutoReply: running perldoc fails with "invalid parameter - -R"
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OS Name: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
OS Version: 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Installed Strawberry perl without incident, confirmed that perl runs (perl -v gave "This is perl 5, version 24, subversion 1 (v5.24.1) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread")
Trying to run perldoc fails:
C:\>perldoc perlfunc
Invalid parameter - -R
C:\>perldoc perl
Invalid parameter - -R
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