Can you skip installing recommended packages upfront? I do that on Linux and install them as any other CRAN packages as non-priv user after the core R installation is in place.
Maybe that gives you a way forward and additional clues what's going on. Henrik On Wed, May 6, 2026, 08:50 Avraham Adler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > This is a question for which in the past I would have reached out > directly to Tomas first, but sadly that is no longer possible. > > I have been building R on Windows for well over twenty years now, with > all the headaches that invariably entails. Currently, I am on Windows > 11 and use Rtools45. Starting April 1, I have found that when building > R on my corporate laptop, the entire compilation simply freezes once > the "recommended" portion of "make distribution" starts. Base R and > the inherent packages (parallel, stats, etc.) all build > beautifully—and even OpenBLAS builds in properly—but once building > MASS starts, it freezes at the third invocation, building the DLL. I > know this is not a toolchain issue, because on my home computer the > entire build finishes flawlessly and passes "make check-all". This is > true for both trunk (devel) and R-4-6-branch. I follow the directions > at the howto [1] and that supports it not being an internet access > issue, as the svn pull and "make rsync-recommended" both complete > properly. > > There is clearly something in the corporate environment which is > interfering. However, neither I nor the IT department have any idea > WHAT it may be. The folder in which I build is specifically exempt > from the standard corporate security policies AND we tried turning off > ALL Windows exploit protections and the problem still exists. > > Would anyone have an idea as to why everything works for "make all" > and "make cairodevices" but would cause Rtools45 to freeze during > "make recommended" in a Windows environment? > > Thank you, > > Avi > > [1] https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/howto-R-4.6.html > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
