Can someone help me understand why Rtools is needed when installing a package from CRAN, and from a zipped file? What's the point?
On 9/14/2019 10:29 PM, Steven Yen wrote: > Since updating to R3.6.1., I have received a WARNING message saying > Rtools is required. > I get the same message installing online from CRAN and from a .zip file. > It looked like installation still went through in both cases, BUT, > > Another student installed a .zip file and received the following error > message: > > Error in install.packages : invalid multibyte string at `<87><55>... > > do I have to live with the message? > > I hate to tell students to install Rtools, which they do not do much with. > Warning message is listed below. Thank you. > --- > > > Install.packages("aod") > WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but it is not > currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate > version of Rtools before proceeding: > > Package 'aod' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked. > -- > s...@hqu.edu.cn -- s...@hqu.edu.cn [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.