Rtools installation error:Error in find_rtools() : could not find function "find_rtools"

[ritwikguhathakurta]

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[jimhester]

Sorry there is not enough information here to do anything. If you add additional details I can reopen this.

[ritwikguhathakurta]

I have installed Latest R package 3.5.1 but when I give the command find_rtool () it throws the error. How can I remove this error.

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[cotp27]

This allowed be to be able to use

devtools::install_github

to download other R packages from GitHub that require Rtools to build them.

Here is the code just in case anyone else has this issue.

install.packages("pkgbuild") # pkgbuild is not available (for R version 3.5.0)
install.packages("devtools") # make sure you have the latest version from CRAN
library(devtools) # load package
devtools::install_github("r-lib/pkgbuild") # install updated version of pkgbuild from GitHub
library(pkgbuild) # load package
<find_rtools() # should be TRUE, assuming you have Rtools 3.5

I'll leave this issue open for now since this workaround doesn't really close the underlying issue.

[lock]

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