Third party software available for CRAN Windows services

CRAN offers to build, link and check packages with some selected third party software under Windows. To allow for that, the CRAN build machine for Windows (as well as the on-demand service available at https://win-builder.R-project.org/) have some third party software products installed which is reflected by the environment and make variables listed below.

Please also read the ReadMe files in the repository corresponding to your version of R for more information about availability of binary package for R for Windows.

Sources for (some) of the mentioned software products are available from https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/ or https://win-builder.R-project.org/GPLcompliance/.

Environment and make variables

• PATH environment variable pointing to binary directories of
  • GTK
  • Java runtime environment
  • MARK
  • PostgreSQL
  • Python
  • Graphviz
• Environment variables pointing to the top level location of the corresponding software that should be clear from the variables' names:
  • GDAL_HOME
  • JAVA_HOME
  • MYSQL_HOME
  • UDUNITS2_HOME
  • HAVE_PNG (set to "yes")
• Make variables pointing to the top level location of the corresponding software that should be clear from the variables' names:
  • BOOSTLIB
  • CLP_PATH
  • GDAL_HOME
  • GLPK_HOME
  • GTK_PATH
  • JAGS_ROOT
  • JAVA_HOME
  • LIB_CURL
  • LIB_FFTW
  • LIB_GMP
  • LIB_GSL
  • LIB_JPEG
  • LIB_MPFR
  • LIB_SBML
  • LIB_TIFF
  • LIB_XML
  • MYSQL_HOME
  • NETCDF
  • NLOPT_HOME
  • QUANTLIB_ROOT
  • SYMPHONY_HOME
  • UDUNITS2_HOME