A preview of Rtools 4.0

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Rtools 4.0 adds a full build system and a package manager so Windows compiles use the same toolchain and libraries as Linux/macOS, concretely shipping a MSYS2/mingw Unix-like shell, pacman package manager and mingw gcc toolchains. The project already automates CI builds, publishes binaries to Bintray, and currently maintains ~100 packaged formulas (with an existing archive of ~773 libraries), demonstrated by successful installs of curl and libxml.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:21CRAN Packages
3. 0:34Maintainer of Windows Installers
4. 1:28What is Rtools
5. 4:33On System Dependencies
6. 5:04The rwinlib Organization
7. 7:51Using Rtools 4.0
8. 9:40What's included?
9. 10:28Using Pacman
10. 12:27Pacman Package Formulas for Rtools 4.0
11. 13:01Rtools 4.0 Package Format
12. 14:58Automatic Building on AppVeyor
13. 15:24Automatic Deployment to Bintray
14. 16:20The Rtools 4.0 Binary Repository
15. 16:48Package is now live!
16. 17:54Recap

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