Rtools R Package. Rtools is required to build r packages but is not currently installed. Successful builds from the master branch of this repository are automatically deployed on bintray and become eventually available via pacman in rtools 4 0.
For building r all of the above plus. This version of rtools upgrades the mingw w64 gcc toolchains to version 8 3 0 and introduces a new build system based on msys2 which makes easier to build and maintain r itself as well as the system libraries needed by r packages on windows. Rtools is a collection of software for building packages for r under microsoft windows or for building r itself version 1 9 0 or later.
It is currently being maintained by duncan murdoch.
Successful builds from the master branch of this repository are automatically deployed on bintray and become eventually available via pacman in rtools 4 0. Rtools40 includes a package manager called pacman which you can use to build and install system libraries provided via rtools packages. Many r packages require external system libraries to build. This version of rtools upgrades the mingw w64 gcc toolchains to version 8 3 0 and introduces a new build system based on msys2 which makes easier to build and maintain r itself as well as the system libraries needed by r packages on windows.
