R help - Jan 2015 - Latest version of Rtools is incompatible with latest version of R !!

?I have installed R version 3.1.2.??I tried to install RTools32.exe which is the
latest version?(using this link -?http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/)
!?However on using the function find_rtools() an error message was displayed
which said ---
"Rtools is required to build R packages, but no version of Rtools
compatible with R 3.1.2 was found. (Only the following incompatible version(s)
of Rtools were found:3.2)Please download and install Rtools 3.1
from?http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/?and then run
find_rtools()."
?
I want to know why the latest version of R is not supporting the latest
Rtools!?Any suggestions?

Thanks for your time,Prameet
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:27 AM, PRAMEET LAHIRI
<prameet_lahiri at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>  I have installed R version 3.1.2.  I tried to install RTools32.exe which
is the latest version (using this link -
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/) ! However on using the function
find_rtools() an error message was displayed which said ---
> "Rtools is required to build R packages, but no version of Rtools
compatible with R 3.1.2 was found. (Only the following incompatible version(s)
of Rtools were found:3.2)Please download and install Rtools 3.1 from
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/ and then run find_rtools()."
>
> I want to know why the latest version of R is not supporting the latest
Rtools! Any suggestions?
find_rtools() is a function of the 'devtools' package.  Maybe it's
an
issue with that package and not R, and I'm pretty sure Duncan Murdoch
put great efforts in asserting Rtools is working well with R (that's
been my experience for the last 5-10 years).

I also know that devtools 1.7.0 have been submitted to CRAN, so
if/when that becomes available you problem might be solved.  You can
of course also grab it earlier from the devtools GitHub page.

My $.02

Henrik
>
> Thanks for your time,Prameet
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find_rtools() is a function of the 'devtools' package.? Maybe it's
an
issue with that package and not R, and I'm pretty sure Duncan Murdoch
put great efforts in asserting Rtools is working well with R (that's
been my experience for the last 5-10 years).

I also know that devtools 1.7.0 have been submitted to CRAN, so
if/when that becomes available you problem might be solved.? You can
of course also grab it earlier from the devtools GitHub page.

My $.02
Henrik

Hello Henrik,Thanks a lot for your reply! I'd just say that I have installed
devtools package, when I use find.package("devtools") I get a normal
response ?- {"[1]
"C:/Users/prameet/Documents/R/win-library/3.1/devtools"}.?But when I
try to load Devtools using library(devtools) function the response I get is -?
[WARNING: Rtools 3.2 found on the path at c:/Rtools is not compatible with R
3.1.2.Please download and install Rtools 3.1 from
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/, remove the incompatible version
from your PATH, then run find_rtools().]

Funnily, this problem disappears when I use RTools31.exe. And, I am not the only
one facing this issue. A lot of people in my group (in which we all are learning
R) are facing the same problem. I am really puzzled as to why RTools32.exe
isn't compatible with R 3.1.2 !!
Thanks again for your time !!Prameet?

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