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> On Feb 23, 2024, at 18:19, Sorkin, John <jsor...@som.umaryland.edu> wrote: > > David, > > I greatly appreciate the explanation you gave regarding R tools providing > tools available in Linux distros, but not found in Windows. (I am using a > windows system). Does this mean that Linux users don't need to use R tools > when they want to compile R code. Yes. That’s been true for me anyway. On a Mac I need to make sure I have the proper C and Fortran compilers and the proper environment variables , which are always provided by Saint Simon Urbanek at the att.research site. — David. > > Additionally, thank you for the information about what I should read. I will > look at the material again, and hopefully things the material you suggest I > read will be more understandable. > > John > > P.S. This email should be in txt format, not html. I sent if from my desktop > windows machine which provides more options than does my iPhone. > > > > John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. > Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; > Associate Director for Biostatistics and Informatics, Baltimore VA Medical > Center Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center; > PI Biostatistics and Informatics Core, University of Maryland School of > Medicine Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center; > Senior Statistician University of Maryland Center for Vascular Research; > > Division of Gerontology and Paliative Care, > 10 North Greene Street > GRECC (BT/18/GR) > Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 > Cell phone 443-418-5382 > > > > > ________________________________________ > From: David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> > Sent: Friday, February 23, 2024 8:14 PM > To: Sorkin, John > Cc: avi.e.gr...@gmail.com; r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Rtools and things dependent on it > > > On 2/23/24 16:28, Sorkin, John wrote: > David, > My apologies regarding the format of my email. I am replying using my iPhone, > and I can’t find a way to switch from what I suspect is html to txt format. > The link you sent told me that R tools allows compilation of code. > > > It's specifically designed to provide the code tools missing in Windows that > would other wise have been provided by a typical Linux distro. More > expansively, it allows compilation of code written in C and/or Fortran using > the version that was used to build the matching R version and allows it to be > called by the routines written in R that bind a package together. > > This is good to know, but beyond this important fact, the rest of the > material was close to unintelligible. > > The phrase "the rest of the material" is not specific enough to offer more > explanation. You should quote material that is beyond your understanding. You > should only be reading the sections named: "Installing Rtools43" and > "Building packages from source using Rtools43". I doubt that material further > on would be relevant. > > -- > > David > > I doubt this is the fault of the author, it is probably because I lack some > basic knowledge. Can you suggest some more basic material I can read. Please > note. I am not computer naive, I am simply missing basic knowledge of the > material discussed in the web page. > Thank you, > John > John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. > Professor of Medicine > Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics > University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and > Geriatric Medicine > Baltimore VA Medical Center > 10 North Greene Street<x-apple-data-detectors://12> > GRECC<x-apple-data-detectors://12> (BT/18/GR) > Baltimore, MD 21201-1524<x-apple-data-detectors://13/0> > (Phone) 410-605-711<tel:410-605-7119>9 > (Fax) 410-605-7913<tel:410-605-7913> (Please call phone number above prior to > faxing) > > On Feb 23, 2024, at 7:01 PM, David Winsemius > <dwinsem...@comcast.net><mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > On 2/23/24 14:34, avi.e.gr...@gmail.com<mailto:avi.e.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > This may be a dumb question and the answer may make me feel dumber. > > I have had trouble for years with R packages wanting Rtools on my machine > and not being able to use it. Many packages are fine as binaries are > available. I have loaded Rtools and probably need to change my PATH or > something. > > > I suppose making sure that whatever directory holds your Rtools code is > on your path would be a good idea. I wondered if there's an environment > variable that could be set, but reading the page on using Rtools did not > mention one until I got down to the section on building R from source > which is surely NOT what you want to do.. You should read the > information on installation and building packages from source. > https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/howto-R-devel.html<https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/howto-R-devel.html> > which > includes this sentence: > > "It is recommended to use the defaults and install into|c:/rtools43|. > When done that way, Rtools43 may be used in the same R session which > installed it or which was started before Rtools43 was installed." > > > But I recently suggested to someone that they might want to use the tabyl() > function in the janitor package that I find helpful. I get a warning when I > install it about Rtools but it works fine. When they install it, it fails. I > assumed they would get it from CRAN the same way I did as we are both using > Windows and from within RSTUDIO. > > In the past, I have run into other packages I could not use and just moved > on but it seems like time to see if this global problem has a work-around. > > And, in particular, I have the latest versions of both R and RSTUDIO which > can be a problem when other things are not as up-to-date. > > Or, maybe some people with R packages could be convinced to make binaries > available in the first place? > > Binaries are automatically produced by CRAN but perhaps you are trying > to install from some other source? It would help if you could be > specific about several missing pieces of information: Operating system, > R version, Rtools version, current location of Rtools, names of packages > and where they were obtained. > > > Regards and good luck; > > David (a.k.a IRTFM) > > Avi > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > Rhelp is a plain text mailing list. 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