[R] Latest version of Rtools is incompatible with latest version of R !!

[Duncan Murdoch]

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