Re: [R] unable to install source packages with Rtools installed

2021-08-24 Thread Jim Lemon
Hi Xiaoyu, "non-zero exit status" is just a fancy way of saying something went wrong. An old computing convention is for a function to return zero (FALSE) for success or some positive integer that tells you what the error was. In general, when you have a sequence of interdependent functions or prog

Re: [R] unable to install source packages with Rtools installed

2021-08-24 Thread Bert Gunter
1. Why not installed a pre-built binary for Windows? (No need to reply ... Just saying.) 2. You should post the results of sessionInfo() to better enable others to help you. Also post any error or diagnostic messages you received. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind i

[R] unable to install source packages with Rtools installed

2021-08-24 Thread Xiaoyu Zeng
Hi all. I installed the latest R and Rtools, and I followed the guidelines to test the installation of Rtools (rtools40v2-x86_64.exe for windows10). I verified that *make* can be found, but I still could not install an R package from the source. Any ideas? *More detailed info:* https://github.co