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2. Click on the download links to download an executable installer.

3. Select the language while installing, read the public license information, and select destination location to the start the installation. You will be prompted to select components at this stage: `User installation`, `32-bit User installation`, `64-bit User installation`, or `Custom installation`. The default option may be opted for the questions from this step onwards to complete the installation.
3. Select the language while installing, read the public license information, and select the destination location to start the installation. You will be prompted to select components at this stage: `User installation`, `32-bit User installation`, `64-bit User installation`, or `Custom installation`. The default option may be opted for the questions from this step onwards to complete the installation.

## Building R and R packages

### What tools you need to build R from source on Windows?
### What tools do you need to build R from source on Windows?

1. [RTools](https://github.com/r-windows/docs/blob/master/faq.md#what-is-rtools) is the toolchain bundle that you can use to build R base and R packages containing compiled code, on Windows.

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For development and testing, you need only the quick development build. The quick build avoids building the manuals, which are generally not needed for development and testing.

However, even for the quick build there are some [default requirements](https://github.com/r-windows/r-base/blob/master/quick-build.sh). For instance, MikTeX is to be installed in `C:/Program Files` and you have 64-bit R. If necessary, these defaults can be customised. The installation path of MikTex can be customised [here](https://github.com/r-windows/r-base/blob/50a229fc76c50a5fb42c0daa367466aaf2318171/quick-build.sh#L13) whereas the Windows bit can be customised [here](https://github.com/r-windows/r-base/blob/50a229fc76c50a5fb42c0daa367466aaf2318171/quick-build.sh#L6).
However, even for the quick build there are some [default requirements](https://github.com/r-windows/r-base/blob/master/quick-build.sh). For instance, MiKTeX is to be installed in `C:/Program Files` and you have 64-bit R. If necessary, these defaults can be customised. The installation path of MiKTeX can be customised [here](https://github.com/r-windows/r-base/blob/50a229fc76c50a5fb42c0daa367466aaf2318171/quick-build.sh#L13) whereas the Windows bit can be customised [here](https://github.com/r-windows/r-base/blob/50a229fc76c50a5fb42c0daa367466aaf2318171/quick-build.sh#L6).

If you are a maintainer of the Windows CRAN releases then, the full installer build is available for building the complete installer as it appears on CRAN. It will build both the 32-bit and 64-bit R, the pdf manuals, and the installer program. You will use this to create the binary builds and not when building R from the source yourself.

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