Re: [R] Why R >= 4.1 warns about installing Rtools on Windows?

Hi, Martin M. helped me focussing the context of my question.  The main result of my trials (various R4.x installations) after his mail is that the warning is issued when using *devtools* to install a package *from github*. When installing a package with install.packages(), no warning. The w

Re: [R] Why R >= 4.1 warns about installing Rtools on Windows?

I don't know for sure, but I imagine this warning is for"old users" that have been using RTools for some of their packages and need to know that the old RTools no longer works with the latest builds.  It certainly was helpful to me.  I understand how frightening it could be to new users, but ev

[R] Why R >= 4.1 warns about installing Rtools on Windows?

Hi, I don't understand why Rtoosl seems to be required even if a package is pure R. For sure, this is just a warning, but it frightens new comers. So, why encouraging people add stuff that will be probably unneeded? Have a nice, Samuel __ R-help@r-