[Rd] install.packages(,type="source") broken on Windows

[Peter Dalgaard]

hpages at fhcrc.org writes:

> Hi,
> 
> On Windows, 'install.packages(,type="source")' displays the same output
> than 'R CMD INSTALL --help' and doesn't install anything...

Yes. The culprit is

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r39127 | urbaneks | 2006-09-05 20:45:00 +0200 (Tue, 05 Sep 2006) | 1 line

Bugfix: install.packages ignored unnamed configure.args
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which forgets to check whether there are any args to name. (There is a
generic issue in that available.packages has a configure.args argument
which is passed on to --configure-args in the INSTALL script: The
Windows INSTALL doesn't understand the argument since configure
doesn't work on Windows. However, things should work when no such
arguments are passed.)

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