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Rtools provides a toolchain for Windows platform that work well with R. It mainly includes GNU make, gcc compiler, and other utilities commonly used on UNIX-alike platforms.
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Install_package does not find Rtools after rtools35 has been updated in latest R update
devtools::install_github(repo) keeps installing rtools35.exe
I try installing a new author account repository from 'author/newrepo'and keep getting R wants to install new buildtoools message. Then the installation exits. Rtools35.exe installation…
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Is cygwin needed for rtools 35
I'm trying to compile the r package stringi on my Win10 machine. First I struggled with Rtools not beeing detected by Rstudio but thanks to the answer of Rtools 3.5 not recognized? I was able to fix that.
However it sill does not compile and gives…
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Rtools not compatible with R
I am trying to install Rtools in windows.Loading library(devtools) and running find_rtools(T) gives:
WARNING: Rtools 3.5 found on the path at E:/USINGS~1/Rtools is not compatible with R 3.5.1.
Please download and install the appropriate version of…
jing yu
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Is there no RTools dependency for openxlsx version 4.1.0?
I am struggling to get some nice formatted tables from RStudio in Excel.
Looking for a workaround I started this topic: export excel friendly tables via HTML/CSS
Hopefully it does not look too rude, but I want to split my problem in two questions.…
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How to install Rtools?
I need to install Rtools in order to work with keras package. I've successfully downloaded Rtools from https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/, but then I need to "put it on a path", as it is stated here on this website. I don't understand…
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Rtools is required to build R packages
How install Rtools?
I want to create a R package but I get the following message: WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before…
Leonela Yamuca Salvatierra
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How to solve "find_rtools" error after installing Rtools
Trying to install Rtools 3.4 with R Version 3.5.1 on windows 7 64 bit. When I use find_rtools() in IDE, it says
Error in find_rtools() : could not find function "find_rtools"
Already installed devtools. Please help.
