On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 14:41:40 +0000 Christophe Bousquet via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote:
> (ii) the same issues keep coming back on my work laptop It may be worth asking the IT department at work, just in case there is a system to prevent unauthorised programs from running that interferes with Rtools. Are you comfortable using the command line? If you create a hello.c file with the following contents: #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { printf("Hello world!\n"); } ...and then place it into %USERPROFILE% (C:/Users/Christophe Bousquet), start "Rtools43 bash" from the Start menu and try the following command line: export PATH=/x86_64-w64-mingw32.static.posix/bin:$PATH gcc -o hello.exe hello.c ./hello.exe Does it say hello to you? -- Best regards, Ivan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.