R devel - Sep 2006 - install.packages(,type="source") broken on Windows

Hi,

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

This is with R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-06 r39158).

> install.packages('cat',type='source')
trying URL 'http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/src/contrib/cat_0.0-6.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 22914 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 22Kb

Unknown option: configure-args
Usage: R CMD INSTALL [options] pkgs

Install the add-on packages specified by pkgs into the default R library
tree (/library) or the tree specified via '--library'.  The
elements of pkgs can be relative or absolute paths to directories with
the package (bundle) sources, or to gzipped package 'tar' archives.
Then optionally pack the installed package into a zip file.

Options:
  -h, --help            print short help message and exit
  -v, --version         print version info and exit
  -c, --clean           remove all files created during installation

  --fake                do minimal install for testing purposes
  --unsafe              install on top of any existing installation
  -d, --debug           [x] turn on shell and build-help debugging
  -l, --library=LIB     install packages to library tree LIB
  --docs=TYPE           type(s) of documentation to build and install
  --with-package-versions
                        allow for multiple versions of the same package
  --use-zip-data        collect data files in zip archive
  --use-zip-help        collect help and examples into zip archives
  --use-zip             combine '--use-zip-data' and
'--use-zip-help'
  --auto-zip            select whether to zip automatically
  --build               zip-up the installation.  Implies --auto-zip


TYPE can be "none" or "normal" or "chm" (the
default) or "all", or
  a comma-separated list of one or more of
  'txt', 'html', 'latex', "example' and
'chm'.

Report bugs to <r-bugs at r-project.org>.

The downloaded packages are in
        c:\temp\RtmpoKYvqb\downloaded_packages
updating HTML package descriptions


H.

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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