RTools: Toolchains for building R and R packages from source on Windows. Choose your version of Rtools:

Rtools is a toolchain bundle used for building R packages from source (those that need compilation of C/C++ or Fortran code) and for building R itself. Rtools44 is used for R 4.4.x and has been used for R-devel, the development version of R, in revisions 86114 to 87994.

For R versions R-4.0.0 to to R-4.1.3, R for Windows uses a toolchain bundle called Rtools 4.0. This version of Rtools is based on msys2 , which makes easier to build and maintain R itself as well as the system libraries needed by R packages on Windows.

Rtools is a collection of software for building packages for R under Microsoft Windows, or for building R itself (version 1.9.0 or later). The original collection was put together by Prof. Brian Ripley; it is currently being maintained by Duncan Murdoch.

2025年2月28日 · R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. To download R, please choose your preferred CRAN mirror.

R and packages are built using Rtools, which is a collection of build tools, a compiler toolchain, headers and pre-compiled static libraries. R 4.4 uses Rtools44, where the build tools are from Msys2 and QPDF. The compiler toolchain, headers …

Starting with R 4.0.0 (released April 2020), R for Windows uses a toolchain bundle called rtools4. This version of Rtools is based on msys2, which makes easier to build and maintain R itself as well as the system libraries needed by R packages on Windows. The latest builds of rtools4 contain 3 toolchains:

2025年1月28日 · R and R packages on Windows, if they include native code, are built using compiler toolchain and libraries from Rtools.

Binaries of contributed CRAN packages for outdated versions of R (for R < 4.0.x). Tools to build R and R packages. This is what you want to build your own packages on Windows, or to build R itself. Please do not submit binaries to CRAN.

Rtools is a toolchain bundle used for building R packages from source (those that need compilation of C/C++ or Fortran code) and for build R itself. Rtools43 is used for R 4.3.x and has been used for R-devel, the development version of R, in revisions 83535 to 86113.