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

[Herve Pages]

OK thanks. Just FYI the same thing happens with R version 2.5.0
devel (2006-09-07 r39185).
Best,

H.

Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> 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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r39127 | urbaneks | 2006-09-05 20:45:00 +0200 (Tue, 05 Sep 2006) | 1 line
>
> Bugfix: install.packages ignored unnamed configure.args
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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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