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I am trying to install quanstrat. So far I have downloaded Rtools35 I am using R 3.5.1 when i use the code

  devtools::install_github("braverock/blotter")

I receive this error

   Downloading GitHub repo braverock/blotter@master
   Error: Could not find tools necessary to compile a package

Here is the path 

 Sys.getenv('PATH')
[1] "C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-3.5.1\\bin\\x64;C:\\WINDOWS\\system32;C:\\WINDOWS;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ATI Technologies\\ATI.ACE\\Core-Static;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\OpenSSH\\;C:\\Users\\Jordan\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps;"

Your help is much appreciated thank you! If there is a better alternative to quanstrat please let me know!

Jordan Wrong
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  • You need to have Rtools installed. RStudio should make it easy to install and use Rtools. Not sure why you would be having a problem if you have Rtools installed and RStudio knows about it. You may have problems if you installed Rtools somewhere RStudio is not looking for them. – Joshua Ulrich Nov 04 '18 at 14:39
  • Thanks alot @JoshuaUlrich if you have some time, could you help answer my question on using Shiny with Quantstrat. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53146541/shiny-with-quantstrat – Jordan Wrong Nov 04 '18 at 23:34

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I FINALLY figured it out. You CAN NOT do this in Rstudio. You have to do it in R. Uhhh why did they make that so difficult?

Jordan Wrong
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  • If you are suggesting that the use of Rtools is restricted to R only and cannot be used from within RStudio (running R), then you are mistaken. Can you confirm that Rtools is in your `PATH` as seen in RStudio? Perhaps `strsplit(Sys.getenv("PATH"), ";")[[1]]` in RStudio, contrasting with the same command in "just R" to see if your environment variables are to blame for the behavior. – r2evans Nov 12 '18 at 23:47