Dear Michael, I think R-devel mailing list is not a proper place to report issues with devtools. I would try filling an issue in their github repository. If you are able to reproduce this issue using plain R without any extra packages, then please provide such example here.
Regards, Jan Gorecki On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 3:18 PM Michael Friendly <frien...@yorku.ca> wrote: > > This question was posed on SO : > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58118495/passing-extra-argumenets-to-devtoolsbuild > but there has been no useful reply. > > Something seems to have changed in the |devtools|package, so that the > following commands, that used to run now give an error I can't decipher: > > |>Sys.setenv(R_GSCMD="C:/Program > Files/gs/gs9.21/bin/gswin64c.exe")>devtools::build(args > =c('--resave-data','--compact-vignettes="gs+qpdf"'))The > filename,directory name,or volume label syntax is incorrect. Error > in(function(command =NULL,args =character(),error_on_status > =TRUE,:System command error| > > I've tried other alternatives with other |devtools| commands, like just > passing a single argument, but still get the same error > > |args ='--compact-vignettes="gs+qpdf"'devtools::check_win_devel(args=args)| > > I'm using devtools 2.2.0, under R 3.5.2 > > -- > Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca > Professor, Psychology Dept. & Chair, ASA Statistical Graphics Section > York University Voice: 416 736-2100 x66249 > 4700 Keele Street Web: http://www.datavis.ca | @datavisFriendly > Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
