[R] Problem installing Rtools
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Sat Dec 3 11:10:25 CET 2011
On 11-12-02 10:25 PM, stillerfan wrote:
> I'm a new user to R and recently installed R 2.14 for Windows 7 (64 bit). I
> have downloaded and ran Rtools 2.14 but do not see any new packages in the
> install packages section of R. I installed Rtools in a subdirectory to the
> /library/ directory. Does anyone have any idea what I could be doing wrong?
>
Rtools doesn't contain R packages, it contains various compilers and
tools that you could use to build R and R packages. So you should
install it in its own directory. I usually use c:/Rtools.
Duncan Murdoch
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