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Rtools provides a toolchain for Windows platform that work well with R. It mainly includes GNU make, gcc compiler, and other utilities commonly used on UNIX-alike platforms.
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Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed
I am relatively new to R/RStudio. I was successfully able to install packages until today. Each time I try to install a package, I receive the following error:
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please…
slp
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No RTools compatible with R version 3.5.0 was found
I had problems installing data.table for R version 3.5.0, and was advised to check that RTools was properly installed.
After installing RTools 3.5 (this seems to be the latest) I typed
find_rtools(T)
I got the following message:
WARNING: Rtools is…
Omry Atia
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ROracle package installation failure
I'm aware of the other questions about this issue, but they don't have much in common with my system setup or the installation error I'm getting, so:
I am using Windows 7, 64 bit
I have installed the 64 bit Oracle Instant Client 18.3.0.0.0 along…
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Install Rtools on R version 3.0.2
I've installed devtools for R, but when I call the library with:
library(devtools)
I get the following output:
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages, but is not currently installed.
Please download and install Rtools 3.1 from…
Jonathan Charlton
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information on .o files for x64 is not available: NOTE on R package checks using Rcpp
I am using windows and just updated to R 4.0.3 (with RStudio to 1.3.959) and ran the R check for one of my packages which uses Rcpp and RcppArmadillo and I got the following NOTE:
> checking compiled code ... NOTE
Note: information on .o files for…
Leonardo Ramirez-Lopez
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Is Rtools incompatible with R version 3.5.1?
I have tried install.packages("Rtools"), but this provides an error that states
package ‘Rtools’ is not available (for R version 3.5.1)
Given that the latest version of R is just a week old, should I wait for the R developers to catch up, or is…
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Can't build RDCOMClient using rtools40 and R 4.0
A while back, I created a fork of the RDCOMClient package to keep it working with R 3.6 (https://github.com/dkyleward/RDCOMClient). People are now running into issues again because it won't work with R 4.0. The problem doesn't seem as easy to fix,…
Kyle Ward
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"Debug location is approximate because the source is not available" in R 4.0.0 + RStudio
I've updated to R 4.0.0 and RStudio version 1.2.5042.
I'm developing a package and I've regularly used the following workflow:
Build the package from within RStudio by clicking the "Install & Restart" button (including the --with-keep.source R CMD…
Manuel R
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Warning: Rtools is required
Every time when I install package this warning occurs :WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:
I have been using R-Studio since…
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stats package not found in R
I'm really having problems with RStudio.
It had been working fine a few days ago. Then it said I needed the newest version of RTools. I tried to install it but don't think it was successful. However now I can't load anything in R.
I am greeted with…
daisy
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How to include more paths under INCLUDE_DIR in configure.vars argument in install.packages() function in R?
I have a problem with gdtools package. I would like to install it from source, but unfortunately I am not able to install any extra libs on Linux box. What I am doing to solve it, it is inclusion of packages in time of…
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R-4.0.1 Rtools not available
Recently started working in R 4.0.1 When installing packages I encounter the following
```WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before…
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Building R package with Rtools4.0 on Windows 10
I am trying to build an R package using RTools4.0 on Windows 10 machine. My package needs the SBML C library and static libraries for SBML for building R packages on Window is provided by RTools4.0 link
I was able to successfully install RTools4.0…
Satya
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Error in compileCode (Error 127) When running rstan program
I am trying to install Rstan. I have no problem installing the package and running it. However, when I try running a program that uses the library I get the following error:
Error in compileCode(f, code, language = language, verbose = verbose) :…
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Sys.which('make') returns an empty vector, resulting in installation failure of package built with .cpp
I've already updated r, rtools and rstudio. But it seems unable to find make.exe, while in C:\rtools40\usr\bin\make.exe it exists.
> find_rtools()
[1] TRUE
> Sys.which('make')
make
""
> R.Version()$version.string
[1] "R version 4.0.3…
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