R: "make" not found when installing a R-package from local tar.gz

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The R Package ConvCalendar is not on Cran repository anymore (see here). However, because I have intensively used this package for previous projects, it would be nice to have it installed on my machine, even an older version would suffice.

(Windows 10 environment)

In the link above it is possible to download older versions of ConvCalendar from the archive. I thus did it, and tried installing it by running (having devtools also installed and loaded): 

install.packages("ConvCalendar_1.2.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")

However, I get the following error message:

> install.packages("ConvCalendar_1.0.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/myname/Documents/R/win-library/3.5’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package 'ConvCalendar' ...
** libs

*** arch - i386
Warning in system(cmd) : 'make' not found
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'ConvCalendar'
* removing 'C:/Users/myname/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/ConvCalendar'
In R CMD INSTALL
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘ConvCalendar_1.2.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

Looking for a solution to this problem.

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3 Answers

what do you need is to update the Rtool, here is the link I had the same issue before once you update it will work.

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'make' not found is a pretty clear cut message on what's the issue, and as noted here and elsewhere it is caused by Rterm not knowing where to find it (unlike other tools like RStudio, base R is completely oblivious to the Windows registry where its install path is always set by default).

Up to Rtools 3.5 this could be neatly avoided with a checkbox in the installer (which took care of adding the right directory to PATH), but newer versions dropped it. Presumably to focus on the RTOOLS_HOME variable (which is far more independent and resilient to whatever else you may have installed on your system), if just so it wasn't that until R 4.2 that was never properly hooked up.

On top of that, it's only since Rtools 4.0 (maybe because they updated the old MSYS2/Cygwin environment, or maybe it was something in the accompanying R 4.0?) that you can use long filenames with spaces to point to the folder containing make. Also, hopefully you haven't been manually setting BINPREF anywhere.

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