Problems installing Rtools on R 3.5.0 on Windows 7

[richelbilderbeek]

From @Giappo:

I am trying to install raket but I keep on getting the error message complaining about Rtools version like:

• install.packages("Rtools"); library(Rtools) Installing package into ‘C:/Users/P274829/Documents/R/win-library/3.5’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Warning in install.packages : package ‘Rtools’ is not available (for R version 3.5.0) Warning in install.packages : unable to access index for repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.5: cannot open URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.5/PACKAGES' Error in library(Rtools) : there is no package called ‘Rtools’

Or, using some workaround found on internet, the best I can get is:

• "Downloading GitHub repo richelbilderbeek/tracerer@master from URL https://api.github.com/repos/richelbilderbeek/tracerer/zipball/master WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages, but no version of Rtools compatible with R 3.5.0 was found. (Only the following incompatible version(s) of Rtools were found:3.3,3.4)

Please download and install Rtools 3.5 from http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/. Installation failed: Could not find build tools necessary to build tracerer"

Do you know how to solve this?

[richelbilderbeek]

The R mirror (at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/ ) was down apparently. Try again now, or use a different mirror, for example, the main R repo:

install.packages("Rtools", repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')

[richelbilderbeek]

Reply from @Giappo:

Sorry but it keeps on giving me the same error: "Warning in install.packages : package ‘Rtools’ is not available (for R version 3.5.0)"

Is there any other way? Do you know about any other people having problems installing raket?

[richelbilderbeek]

Installing a basic R package like Rtools has nothing to do with any package that is dependent on it. What may help is send me the new, full error message, so that I can highlight the line you did not read :-)

[richelbilderbeek]

Reply from @Giappo:

I found the way. It needs to be downloaded manually from here "https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/" with the latest version, then installed ticking the PATH thingy and then rebooting R. In case someone else will find the same problem you can tell them to do so.

PS: I also had problem with the dependency "xmlparsedata" so I had to run manually "install.packages('xmlparsedata')".

[richelbilderbeek]

Thanks for sharing, happy that you got it to work!

[port1a]

Thanks a lot guys