Devtools for R 3.3.0 not working with Rtools 3.3?

Question

I updated to the latest devel version of R (3.3.0) and the lastest devtools on CRAN (1.7), and got the follow message.

library("devtools", lib.loc="~/R/win-library/3.3")

WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages, but no version of Rtools compatible with R 3.3.0 was found. (Only the following incompatible version(s) of Rtools were found:2.15,2.16,3.1,3.3)

Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools from http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/ and then run find_rtools().

Did I mess something up, or is this just too new for anyone else to have encountered yet? Seems like Rtools 3.3 ought to be fine for devtools in R 3.3.0.

Answer 1

I have faced the same issue, I resolved it by downloading Rtools 3.3 from this link https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/ and Installed it in my Windows 8 machine. After that I ran find_rtools() in Rstudio/R, It will return TRUE. Thats it you have resolved it.

Now try library(devtools), it will work :D :D