Can someone help me understand why Rtools is needed when installing a
package from CRAN, and from a zipped file? What's the point?
On 9/14/2019 10:29 PM, Steven Yen wrote:
> Since updating to R3.6.1., I have received a WARNING message saying
> Rtools is required.
> I get the same message installing online from CRAN and from a .zip file.
> It looked like installation still went through in both cases, BUT,
>
> Another student installed a .zip file and received the following error
> message:
>
> Error in install.packages : invalid multibyte string at `<87><55>...
>
> do I have to live with the message?
>
> I hate to tell students to install Rtools, which they do not do much with.
> Warning message is listed below. Thank you.
> ---
>
> > Install.packages("aod")
> WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but it is not
> currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate
> version of Rtools before proceeding:
>
> Package 'aod' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked.
> --
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