missing Rtools, should I be worried?

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#1

Sorry for the very basic question, but I recently installed a package (after upgrading to R 3.5.3 from R 4) using


> devtools::install(pkg = "W://resources/spacyr/spacyr-master", upgrade = 'never')
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages, but is not currently installed.

The install worked fine. Should I be worried about the warning? Does that mean my installation is corrupted?

Thanks again!

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#2

This means that if you are going to install packages that need compilation, you also have to install Rtools in your system.
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/

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#3

thanks @andresrcs, always very useful and timely! So that means I didnt need to compile anything for this one, right? this is why it worked smoothly?

#4

Yes, although this might not be always the case, because binaries are not always available for your OS and R versions.

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