Error installing old packages in R

Question

I'm trying to install a 0.6-2 version of the tm library. I've downloaded the tar.gz file from the archive and in RStudio selected Tools -> Archive -> Package Archive File to install it.

However, I'm getting the following error. Can someone help me fix this please:

• installing source package 'tm' ... ** package 'tm' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** libs

* arch - i386 c:/Rtools/mingw_32/bin/gcc -I"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.2/include" -DNDEBUG -I"d:/Compiler/gcc-4.9.3/local330/include" -O3 -Wall -std=gnu99 -mtune=core2 -c copy.c -o copy.o c:/Rtools/mingw_32/bin/gcc: not found make: * [copy.o] Error 127

Warning: running command 'make -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.2/etc/i386/Makeconf" -f "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.2/share/make/winshlib.mk" SHLIB="tm.dll" OBJECTS="copy.o"' had status 2 ERROR: compilation failed for package 'tm' * removing 'C:/Users/608447283/Documents/R/win-library/3.3/tm'

Warning in install.packages : running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.2/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\608447283\Documents\R\win-library\3.3" "C:/Users/608447283/desktop/tm_0.6-2.tar.gz"' had status 1

Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘C:/Users/608447283/desktop/tm_0.6-2.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

Answer 1

You should install Rtools which contains resources needed to build packages in R under Microsoft Windows :

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/

After installing, you should see it under your PATH variable:

Sys.getenv("PATH")