On 2/24/24 01:01, David Winsemius wrote:
On 2/23/24 14:34, 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 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."
Yes, for regular users, who just want to install R packages on Windows
from source (packages that include C, C++ of Fortran code), all that is
needed is to:
- install R from the official installer provided by CRAN
- install Rtools (also from CRAN) for that version of R (so Rtools42 for
R 4.2, Rtools43 for R 4.3, Rtools44 for R-devel/to become R 4.4)
If both is done accepting the defaults, no additional configuration is
needed. R will automatically find Rtools when it needs it. One can have
multiple versions of R and multiple versions of Rtools installed on the
system, R will find and use the version of Rtools it needs.
Tomas
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
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