Use stock Rtools toolchain by default for RTools44+

Author: andrjohns

.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml

@@ -42,12 +42,6 @@ jobs:
           echo "CMDSTAN_PATH=${HOME}/.cmdstan" >> $GITHUB_ENV
         shell: bash
 
-      - name: Use stock RTools for Windows R-Devel
-        if: ${{ matrix.config.os == 'windows-latest' && matrix.config.r == 'devel' }}
-        run: |
-          echo "CMDSTANR_USE_RTOOLS=TRUE" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-        shell: bash
-
       - uses: n1hility/cancel-previous-runs@v3
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

R/install.R

@@ -643,7 +643,8 @@ check_rtools4x_windows_toolchain <- function(fix = FALSE, quiet = FALSE) {
       call. = FALSE
     )
   }
-  if (Sys.getenv("CMDSTANR_USE_RTOOLS") != "") {
+  # No additional utilities/toolchains are needed with RTools44
+  if (rtools4x_version() >= "44" && Sys.getenv("CMDSTANR_USE_MSYS_TOOLCHAIN") == "") {
     return(invisible(NULL))
   }
   if (!is_toolchain_installed(app = "g++", path = toolchain_path) ||
@@ -855,10 +856,11 @@ toolchain_PATH_env_var <- function() {
 }
 
 rtools4x_toolchain_path <- function() {
-  toolchain <- ifelse(is_ucrt_toolchain(), "ucrt64", "mingw64")
-  if (Sys.getenv("CMDSTANR_USE_RTOOLS") != "") {
-    if (arch_is_aarch64()) {
-      toolchain <- "aarch64-w64-mingw32.static.posix"
+  if (arch_is_aarch64()) {
+    toolchain <- "aarch64-w64-mingw32.static.posix"
+  } else {
+    if (rtools4x_version() < "44" || Sys.getenv("CMDSTANR_USE_MSYS_TOOLCHAIN") != "") {
+      toolchain <- ifelse(is_ucrt_toolchain(), "ucrt64", "mingw64")
     } else {
       toolchain <- "x86_64-w64-mingw32.static.posix"
     }

R/utils.R

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ arch_is_aarch64 <- function() {
 make_cmd <- function() {
   if (Sys.getenv("MAKE") != "") {
     Sys.getenv("MAKE")
-  } else if (os_is_windows() && !os_is_wsl() && (Sys.getenv("CMDSTANR_USE_RTOOLS") == "")) {
+  } else if (os_is_windows() && !os_is_wsl() && (rtools4x_version() < "44" || Sys.getenv("CMDSTANR_USE_MSYS_TOOLCHAIN") != "")) {
     "mingw32-make.exe"
   } else {
     "make"

tests/testthat/test-install.R

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 context("install")
-# Current tests need CmdStan 2.35 for stock rtools, but is not yet released
-skip_if(Sys.getenv("CMDSTANR_USE_RTOOLS") != "")
 
 cmdstan_test_tarball_url <- Sys.getenv("CMDSTAN_TEST_TARBALL_URL")
 if (!nzchar(cmdstan_test_tarball_url)) {