Normally you only need rtools if you are compiling packages with code from other languages It delivered speedy throughput in our testing and comes with tough parental controls,. Rtools isn't needed to call r from the command line
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Any installation of r allows that
What rtools adds are some tools to allow you to build packages
Not all packages need it Dear r users with awesome brains I newly installed r, rstudio today After i finished download rtools.exe file from cran and unzip it, i've got this warning message when i tried to.
Now restart r, and verify that make can be found, which should show the path to your rtools installation When i do this and then (in order to test) paste sys.which(make) i get only. When trying to install rtools , i get the message below My r version is 4.1.2
I saw that it pointed rtools to c:\rtools40\
However, this should be c:\rtools40\usr\bin I edited the environment variable accordingly Here is an instruction how to. Rtools is not an r package
Rather, it is a collection of development tools outside of r (compilers etc.) that you need to install in order to build r packages from source The newest version of rtools actually constructs paths to the gcc / g++ compilers on demand You now only need rtools\bin on the path When make.exe is called, r will then effectively tell it to.
To answer to john doe's question, you can make sure that rtools is in the path always and only for r by adding this line to your.rprofile
