winget install --id RProject.RtoolsAbout Rtools
Rtools is a toolchain bundle used for building R packages from source (those that need compilation of C/C++ or Fortran code) and for building R itself.
What's new in 4.5.6768
Distributed as rtools45-6768-6492.exe and rtools45-aarch64-6768-6492.exe. Package muparser has been added and muparser support has been enabled in gdal (thanks to Chris Toney). Upsteam MXE changesd hav been merged from 9e83f9c12e0f9e3de2d3f90bc2656cd7cce1cf0b and additional packages have been updated as below: armadillo 15.0.3 to 15.2.3 brotli 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 c-ares 1.34.5 to 1.34.6 curl 8.16.0 to 8.18.0 freeglut 3.6.0 to 3.8.0 gdal 3.11.4 to 3.12.1 gdk-pixbuf 2.44.3 to 2.44.4 geos 3.13.1 to 3.14.1 glib 2.86.0 to 2.86.3 gnutls 3.8.10 to 3.8.11 harfbuzz 12.1.0 to 12.3.0 lcms 2.17 to 2.18 libarchive 3.8.1 to 3.8.5 libdeflate 1.24 to 1.25 libgit2 1.9.1 to 1.9.2 libgpg_error 1.56 to 1.58 libgsf 1.14.53 to 1.14.55 libpng 1.6.50 to 1.6.54 libsodium 1.0.20 to 1.0.21 libtasn1 4.20.0 to 4.21.0 libzmq 7a7bfa1 to 900a548 nettle 3.9.1 to 3.10.2 nghttp2 1.67.1 to 1.68.0 openblas 0.3.30 to 0.3.31 pcre2 10.46 to 10.47 poppler 25.10.0 to 26.01.0 proj 9.7.0 to 9.7.1 quantlib 1.39 to 1.41 sqlite 3500400 to 3510200 xz 5.8.1 to 5.8.2 zstd 1.5.7 to 1.5.7-kernel These packages have been added: muparser 2.3.5
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 4.5.6768 | Unknown | Distributed as rtools45-6768-6492.exe and rtools45-aarch64-6768-6492.exe. Package muparser has been added and muparser support has been enabled in gdal (thanks to Chris Toney). Upsteam MXE changesd hav been merged from 9... |
| 4.5.6691 | Unknown | Distributed as rtools45-6691-6492.exe and rtools45-aarch64-6691-6492.exe. GCC has been updated to version 14.3 (from 14.2). Gdal has been fixed to really include blosc support. Cmake files for gdal and several other pack... |
| 4.5.6608 | Unknown | Distributed as rtools45-6608-6492.exe and rtools45-aarch64-6608-6492.exe. In this Rtools release, package quantlib 1.38 has been added. Upstream MXE changes have been merged from 53a0021aec08cda84c26eb0bb603961eb84f91dc.... |
| 4.4.6459 | Unknown | Distributed as rtools44-6459-6401.exe and rtools44-aarch64-6459-6401.exe. Package postgresql has been updated from version 13.18 to 13.20. This fixes security vulnerability CVE-2025-1094 in PostgreSQL. The vulnerability... |
| 4.3.5958 | Unknown | Distributed as rtools43-5958-5975.exe. This is a correction release which fixes a problem in the build of the Msys2 part of release 5948. A typical symptom of the problem in 5948 is that Msys2 packages cannot be installe... |
| 4.2 | Unknown | No notes |
| 4.0 | Unknown | • tweak start menu |