[Rd] Small bug in install.packages?

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jun 28, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:

> When capturing the path to the current R binary, install.packages does:
> 
>  cmd0 <- paste(file.path(R.home("bin"), "R"), "CMD INSTALL")
> 
> shouldn't that be
> 
>  cmd0 <- shQuote(paste(file.path(R.home("bin"), "R"), "CMD INSTALL"))
> 
> to allow paths with spaces in them (which would be very common on windows)?
> 

Isn't R.home() 8.3 path anyway?

BTW: I think you probably meant more something like paste(shQuote(file.path(R.home("bin"), "R")), "CMD INSTALL") since the above won't work ..

Cheers,
S