installr (version 0.21.3)

install.Rtools: Downloads and installs Rtools

Description

Allows the user to choose, downloads and install - the latest version of Rtools for Windows. By default, the function searches if RTools is installed, if not, it checks if it knows which version to isntall for the current R version, and if not - it asks the user to choose which Rtools version to install.

Usage

install.Rtools(choose_version = FALSE, check = TRUE, GUI = TRUE,
  page_with_download_url = "https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/",
  ...)

Arguments

choose_version

if TRUE, allows the user to choose which version of RTools to install. Useful if you wish to install the devel version of RTools, or if you are running on an old version of R which requires an old version of R.

check

checks if we need to install Rtools or not. Relies on the "find_rtools" function in the devtools package.

GUI

Should a GUI be used when asking the user questions? (defaults to TRUE)

page_with_download_url

the URL of the RTools download page.

...

extra parameters to pass to install.URL

Value

invisible(TRUE/FALSE) - was the installation successful or not.

Details

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). The original collection was put together by Prof. Brian Ripley; it is currently being maintained by Duncan Murdoch.

References

RTools homepage (for other resources and documentation): https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/

Examples

# NOT RUN {
install.Rtools() # installs the latest version of RTools (if one is needed)
install.Rtools(TRUE) # if one is needed - asks the user to choose the latest 
# version of RTools to install

install.Rtools(TRUE, FALSE) # asks the user to choose 
# the latest version of RTools to install 
# (regardless if one is needed)
# install.Rtools(F,F)

# }