felixcheung commented on a change in pull request #25647: 
[SPARK-28946][R][DOCS] Add some more information about building SparkR on 
Windows
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/25647#discussion_r320053768
 
 

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 File path: R/WINDOWS.md
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 To build SparkR on Windows, the following steps are required
 
-1. Install R (>= 3.1) and 
[Rtools](https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/). Make sure to
+1. Make sure `bash` is available and in `PATH` if you already have a built-in 
`bash` on Windows. If you do not have, install 
[Cygwin](https://www.cygwin.com/).
 
 Review comment:
   btw, do we know Cygwin still work? or should we tell ppl to use 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 ?

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