On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Rguy <r...@123mail.org> wrote: > I recently downloaded Rtools. I see the g++ version is > gcc version 4.6.3 20111208 (prerelease) (GCC) > > I also recently downloaded MinGW. Its version of g++ is > gcc version 4.8.1 (GCC) > > I believe that later versions of g++ provide better support for C++11. > Why does Rtools provide a version considerably older than the latest? > Any plans to update the version? > Is it bad practice to compile with a later version when interfacing with R?
Later versions of gcc/g++ also support openmp which 4.6.3 does not. There may be other C/C++ packages too that can't be used until with Rtools until it is upgraded to a more recent version. By the way, there is a MinGW 4.8.2 distribution (slightly more recent than the one you downloaded) here: http://nuwen.net/mingw.html -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
