On 15/09/2019 1:44 a.m., Steven Yen wrote:> Can someone help me understand why Rtools is needed when installing a > package from CRAN, and from a zipped file? What's the point?Please don't just repeat your post when you've been asked for additional supporting information. Duncan Murdoch> > On 9/14/2019 10:29 PM, Steven Yen wrote: >> Since updating to R3.6.1., I have received a WARNING message saying >> Rtools is required. >> I get the same message installing online from CRAN and from a .zip file. >> It looked like installation still went through in both cases, BUT, >> >> Another student installed a .zip file and received the following error >> message: >> >> Error in install.packages : invalid multibyte string at `<87><55>... >> >> do I have to live with the message? >> >> I hate to tell students to install Rtools, which they do not do much with. >> Warning message is listed below. Thank you. >> --- >> >>> Install.packages("aod") >> WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but it is not >> currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate >> version of Rtools before proceeding: >> >> Package 'aod' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked. >> -- >> syen at hqu.edu.cn >
Hello Duncan:
Below I am sending
(1) message from installation of a .zip file;
(2) from installation of aod from CRAN;
(3) from running the line sessionInfo()
Looks like both installations were successful despite the warning
message. Now the point seems to be to figure out why the warning arises.
Thank you.
Steven Yen
== > install.packages("C:/Users/Bonnie/Desktop/yenlib1_1.1.0.zip",
repos =
NULL, type = "win.binary")
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently
installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools
before proceeding:
https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ?C:/Users/Bonnie/Documents/R/win-library/3.6?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
package ?yenlib1? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> install.packages("aod")
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently
installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools
before proceeding:
https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ?C:/Users/Bonnie/Documents/R/win-library/3.6?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
trying URL
'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/aod_1.3.1.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 322953 bytes (315 KB)
downloaded 315 KB
package ?aod? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\Bonnie\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpikl35B\downloaded_packages
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17763)
Matrix products: default
Random number generation:
?RNG:???? Mersenne-Twister
?Normal:? Inversion
?Sample:? Rounding
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
[2] LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
[3] LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
attached base packages:
[1] stats???? graphics? grDevices utils
[5] datasets? methods?? base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.6.1 tools_3.6.1
On 9/15/2019 11:02 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:> On 15/09/2019 1:44 a.m., Steven Yen wrote:
>> Can someone help me understand why Rtools is needed when installing a
>> package from CRAN, and from a zipped file? What's the point?
>
> Please don't just repeat your post when you've been asked for
> additional supporting information.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>
>> On 9/14/2019 10:29 PM, Steven Yen wrote:
>>> Since updating to R3.6.1., I have received a WARNING message saying
>>> Rtools is required.
>>> I get the same message installing online from CRAN and from a .zip
>>> file.
>>> It looked like installation still went through in both cases, BUT,
>>>
>>> Another student installed a .zip file and received the following
error
>>> message:
>>>
>>> Error in install.packages : invalid multibyte string at
`<87><55>...
>>>
>>> do I have to live with the message?
>>>
>>> I hate to tell students to install Rtools, which they do not do
much
>>> with.
>>> Warning message is listed below. Thank you.
>>> ---
>>>
>>>> Install.packages("aod")
>>> WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but it is not
>>> currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate
>>> version of Rtools before proceeding:
>>>
>>> Package 'aod' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked.
>>> --
>>> syen at hqu.edu.cn
>>
>
--
styen at ntu.edu.tw (S.T. Yen)
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The message you are seeing is coming from RStudio, not from R. You can see it here: https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/blob/cf5076a88a219a275a2d128191c12c1f8f4e3890/src/cpp/session/modules/build/SessionBuildEnvironment.cpp#L164-L168 It's possible that updating RStudio will make it go away; if not, you probably have to contact them to find out why it's showing up. The R team can't do anything about it. Duncan Murdoch On 15/09/2019 10:07 p.m., Steven Yen wrote:> Hello Duncan: > Below I am sending > (1) message from installation of a .zip file; > (2) from installation of aod from CRAN; > (3) from running the line sessionInfo() > > Looks like both installations were successful despite the warning > message. Now the point seems to be to figure out why the warning arises. > Thank you. > Steven Yen > > ==> > install.packages("C:/Users/Bonnie/Desktop/yenlib1_1.1.0.zip", repos = > NULL, type = "win.binary") > WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently > installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools > before proceeding: > > https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/ > Installing package into ?C:/Users/Bonnie/Documents/R/win-library/3.6? > (as ?lib? is unspecified) > package ?yenlib1? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > > install.packages("aod") > WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently > installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools > before proceeding: > > https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/ > Installing package into ?C:/Users/Bonnie/Documents/R/win-library/3.6? > (as ?lib? is unspecified) > trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/aod_1.3.1.zip' > Content type 'application/zip' length 322953 bytes (315 KB) > downloaded 315 KB > > package ?aod? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > > The downloaded binary packages are in > C:\Users\Bonnie\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpikl35B\downloaded_packages > > > sessionInfo() > R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05) > Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) > Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17763) > > Matrix products: default > > Random number generation: > ?RNG:???? Mersenne-Twister > ?Normal:? Inversion > ?Sample:? Rounding > > locale: > [1] LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936 > [2] LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936 > [3] LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936 > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C > [5] LC_TIME=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats???? graphics? grDevices utils > [5] datasets? methods?? base > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] compiler_3.6.1 tools_3.6.1 > > On 9/15/2019 11:02 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 15/09/2019 1:44 a.m., Steven Yen wrote: >>> Can someone help me understand why Rtools is needed when installing a >>> package from CRAN, and from a zipped file? What's the point? >> >> Please don't just repeat your post when you've been asked for >> additional supporting information. >> >> Duncan Murdoch >> >>> >>> On 9/14/2019 10:29 PM, Steven Yen wrote: >>>> Since updating to R3.6.1., I have received a WARNING message saying >>>> Rtools is required. >>>> I get the same message installing online from CRAN and from a .zip >>>> file. >>>> It looked like installation still went through in both cases, BUT, >>>> >>>> Another student installed a .zip file and received the following error >>>> message: >>>> >>>> Error in install.packages : invalid multibyte string at `<87><55>... >>>> >>>> do I have to live with the message? >>>> >>>> I hate to tell students to install Rtools, which they do not do much >>>> with. >>>> Warning message is listed below. Thank you. >>>> --- >>>> >>>>> Install.packages("aod") >>>> WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but it is not >>>> currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate >>>> version of Rtools before proceeding: >>>> >>>> Package 'aod' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked. >>>> -- >>>> syen at hqu.edu.cn >>> >> > > -- > styen at ntu.edu.tw (S.T. Yen) >