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

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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On 16/01/2015 3:55 AM, PRAMEET LAHIRI wrote:
> 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 
You are asking the wrong question.  You should be asking why devtools
says that Rtools 3.2 is incompatible.

It's possible I missed something in the setup that devtools is looking
for.  If so, let me know and I'll update Rtools32.exe.

Duncan Murdoch

>> 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
>
> You are asking the wrong question.  You should be asking why devtools
> says that Rtools 3.2 is incompatible.
Yes, that was my fault - I hadn't updated devtool's list of Rtools
versions to tell it about 3.2.

I've fixed it in the dev version which can be installed by following
the instructions at
https://github.com/hadley/devtools#updating-to-the-latest-version-of-devtools
 (I'd appreciate it if someone could try this out and let me know if
it doesn't work)

Hadley

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