An R package to install and manage the complete R development toolchain on macOS, including Xcode CLI, gfortran, and essential development libraries.

April 22, 2022 - Information, tools and most recent daily builds of the R GUI, R-patched and R-devel can be found at http://mac.R-project.org/. Please visit that page especially during beta stages to help us test the Mac OS X binaries before final release! The page also contains links to experimental builds ...

January 26, 2020 - RTools currently works only for Windows. I think we should also enable installation for macOS too.

February 24, 2023 - Scripts to build an **unofficial** Rtools-esq installer for the macOS R toolchain - coatless-mac/r-macos-rtools

April 27, 2026 - Download Rtools for Mac, one of the most popular apps from the developer The R Foundation, and for free. Find it in Uptodown.com

This is an unofficial project to support users on macOS. The repository includes source code for macrtools, which is an R package exclusively for Apple’s macOS operating system.

On modern macOS versions you can simply use ... which installs Xcode command line tools which are sufficient to build R (however, if you want to also build the R.app GUI you do need the full Xcode installation). GNU Fortran compiler R and some contributed package require a FORTRAN compiler.

Information, tools and most recent daily builds of the R GUI, R-patched and R-devel can be found at http://mac.R-project.org/. Please visit that page especially during beta stages to help us test the macOS binaries before final release! Package maintainers should visit CRAN check summary page to see whether their package is compatible with the current build of R for macOS.

Download and install the gfortran compiler gfortran-12.2-universal.pkg from https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/. Verify the installation by opening the terminal and running the command /opt/gfortran/bin/gfortran. You should see an error that says “no input files”. R 4.4.1 will look in the wrong place for gfortran, so you must point it to the right location.

Windows1 only: Download and install the latest version of Rtools. ... Install the Apple Xcode developer tools. For macOS 10.7 (Lion) or higher, you can install Xcode for free from the App Store.

April 8, 2025 - This article describes how to satisfy these dependencies for Windows, Mac OS X and Debian/Ubuntu Linux. The core software development utilities required for R package development can be obtained from the Rtools download on CRAN: https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/.

December 18, 2024 - plz share some details and tell me how to proceed further.

April 24, 2025 - As a result, this guide will use both installers and script commands ia Terminal.app found in /Applications/Utilities/. Terminal is macOS’ equivalent to Linux’s shell and Window’s command line. From Terminal, we will install only the XCode Command Line Tools (“Xcode CLI”). These provide the system headers used to build the official CRAN binary for R.

February 14, 2022 - I am getting the following message: “macos-rtools-4.0.0.pkg” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. This software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information." Have anyone had similar problems and figured out how to solve it?

R and RStudio are both free, open-source software, available for all commonly used operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems. R and RStudio install in the standard manner on each of these systems. System-specific instructions for installing R are given below.

If you are on windows, you will ... CRAN. The vast majority of the time this is unnecessary, but some circumstances require it. Mac users do not need to install R Tools. First, navigate to the R tools website at https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/....

Starting with R 4.0.0 we are building R using standard Apple tools (Xcode) and GNU Fortran (see tools for downloads and details). We maintain following binary builds: big-sur-x86_64 build supports legacy Intel Macs from macOS 11 (Big Sur) and higher (since R 4.3.0)

If you are using a Mac, skip forward to the Mac install directions in section 2.6. If you are computer-savvy enough to be using Linux, you can probably figure it out on your own (it will look a lot like these). If you are installing R on a Mac, jump ahead to the Mac-specific version below in section 2.6. On Windows, once you have clicked through, your next screen will look like this: ... You want to download both base and Rtools (you might need Rtools later to build packages for Windows).