[Bug 51605] R returns Cygwin warning and installation error during package installation

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51605

--- Comment #8 from Jim <virtualreal at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Fabian Maurer from comment #7)
> Created attachment 70461 [details]
> Log when running your script
> 
> > With the 'same' you mean the same error messages or were you able to install the Catboost package successfully?
> 
> I mean, even on windows it doesn't install properly. Wine behaves the same.

So you get the exact same screen output as under Wine? That's interesting since
I was able to do so (see screen output in my first message).

> 
> I still have no idea why or how you use Cygwin. Cygwin is to run Linux
> programs on Windows. What does that have to do with R?
> 
Neither do I, but I installed it later in an attempt to avoid that warning
message and -possibly- avoid this installation problem. Unfortunately it didn't

> So, I download
> https://mirror.lyrahosting.com/CRAN/bin/windows/base/old/4.0.5/R-4.0.5-win.
> exe
> Then I followed your instructions from Comment 2.
> 
> See what I got in the attachment.
> No idea what you're doing, but it's clearly something different.

Ah, I see the message "WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages, but is
not currently installed." My apologize, I've installed the 'devtools' package a
long time ago and forgot that it requires that it needs Rtools when you want to
install packages from source. Please visit
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/ and install
rtools40v2-x86_64.exe

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