[Rd] R 2.9.0 devel: package installation with configure-args option

[Prof Brian Ripley]

That version of R is 'under development' and the INSTALL file says

## FIXME: this loses quotes, so filepaths with spaces in get broken up

so it is I think the same as a known issue.

The whole package installation process has been completely 
reconstructed for R-devel, and the process is not quite finished.
And this is a low priority as there are effective workarounds.

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, ml-it-r-devel at epigenomics.com wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> trying
> to install a package containing C code and requiring non-default configure argument
> settings the incantation (this has worked for R <= 2.8.1 on the same architectures)
> 
> R CMD INSTALL --configure-args="--with-opt1 --with-opt2" packname
> 
> does always result in a warning
> Warning: unknown option '--with-opt2'
> 
> and consequently the option is ignored. Reverting the order of options results in the now
> last option to be ignored. Alternative quoting has not provided a solution.
> 
> Using
> 
> R CMD INSTALL --configure-args=--with-opt1 --configure-args=--with-opt2 packname
> 
> does provide a workaround, though. Is this the (new to me) and only intended way to
> provide more than one configure argument?
> I checked ?INSTALL and the referenced R-admin sec. 'Configuration variables' but still am
> not clear on this.
> 
> Regards, Matthias
> 
> 
> R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-03-02 r48041)
> on Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10
> 
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