Problem to install package

General
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Hi, im trying to install in R the package 'tabulizer' but R gaves me back this error:

> install.packages('tabulizer')
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:

https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Juan/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘tabulizer’ is not available for this version of R

A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere,
see the ideas at
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages
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Apparently you do not have Rtools installed.

RTools: Toolchains for building R and R packages from source on Windows

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Oops, a bit more checking brought up this:

Package ‘tabulizer’ was removed from the CRAN repository.

Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive.

Archived on 2021-10-31 as check problems were not corrected in time.

A summary of the most recent check results can be obtained from the check results archive.

Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=tabulizer to link to this page.

However, Danielle Navarro reports success installing {tabulizer} in 2023 : Extracting tables from pdf files with tabulizer.

You may also find this helpful tabulapdf: Extract Tables from PDF Documents

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You might want to look into using the {tabulapdf} package instead of tabulizer. It is also based on tabula, and it is available on CRAN.

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I second @ mduvekot's suggestion. I just gave it a quick check and it looks good. The write-up in my second link above is a good intro.