If no 'type' is specified, download.packages("pkgname") will download source
packages (.tar.gz files), even on Windows. However, the help says
type character string, indicate which type of packages: see
install.packages.
and on Windows, install.packages defaults to downloading binary packages.
Is this intended behaviour on the part of download.packages? This is on R 3.3.3
and 3.4.1; I haven't tested on 3.4.2 but there's no indication the function has
changed.
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