[R] Installing from source on Windows 7: tibble

[G.Maubach at weinwolf.de]

Hi All,

I would like to install R packages from source on Windows 7 64-Bit. 
Currently my settings are:

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> sessionInfo()
R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252  LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252 
[3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C 
[5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252 

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base 

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.3.0
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The environment variable PATH on Windows 7 is set to:

C:\R-Project\Rtools\mingw_32\bin;C:\R-Project\Rtools\mingw_64\bin;C:\R-Project\Rtools\bin;C:\R-Project\Rtools\gcc-4.6.3\bin;C:\Program 
Files\Python 3.5\Scripts\;C:\Program Files\Python 
3.5\;C:\Python27\;C:\Python27\Scripts; etc. etc.

RTools is installed in C:\R-Project\RTools

The call of

C:\R-Project\Rtools\mingw_64\bin\g++.exe --version

results in

g++ (x86_64-posix-seh, Built by MinGW-W64 project) 4.9.3

If I do


> install.packages("tibble", type = "source")

I get

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trying URL 'https://cran.uni-muenster.de/src/contrib/tibble_1.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 38038 bytes (37 KB)
downloaded 37 KB

* installing *source* package 'tibble' ...
** Paket 'tibble' erfolgreich entpackt und MD5 Summen überprüft
** libs

*** arch - i386
c:/Rtools/mingw_32/bin/g++  -I"C:/R-PROJ~1/R-33~1.0/include" -DNDEBUG 
-I"C:/R-Project/R-3.3.0/library/Rcpp/include" 
-I"d:/Compiler/gcc-4.9.3/local330/include"     -O2 -Wall  -mtune=core2 -c 
RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
c:/Rtools/mingw_32/bin/g++: not found
make: *** [RcppExports.o] Error 127
Warnung: Ausführung von Kommando 'make -f 
"C:/R-PROJ~1/R-33~1.0/etc/i386/Makeconf" -f 
"C:/R-PROJ~1/R-33~1.0/share/make/winshlib.mk" 
SHLIB_LDFLAGS='$(SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS)' SHLIB_LD='$(SHLIB_CXXLD)' 
SHLIB="tibble.dll" OBJECTS="RcppExports.o matrixToDataFrame.o"' ergab 
Status 2
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'tibble'
* removing 'C:/R-Project/R-3.3.0/library/tibble'
* restoring previous 'C:/R-Project/R-3.3.0/library/tibble'
Warning in install.packages :
  running command '"C:/R-PROJ~1/R-33~1.0/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l 
"C:\R-Project\R-3.3.0\library" 
C:\Users\MAUBAC~1.WEI\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp23SQxM/downloaded_packages/tibble_1.0.tar.gz' 
had status 1
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘tibble’ had non-zero exit status
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There is no make.conf in "C:\R-Project\Rtools\mingw_64\etc". I found "
Makeconf" in "C:\R-Project\R-3.3.0\etc\x64". Do I need it? How do I need 
to configure the settings in this file?

I searched old aunt Google but did not understand what to do and how to 
configure R environment variables correctly.

What do I need to do to install packages from source?

Kind regards

Georg