Re: [Rd] Unexpected behaviour with download.packages on Windows

2017-09-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 29/09/2017 12:44 PM, Rui Barradas wrote: Hello, The help pages for download.packages and install.packages say 'type = getOption("pkgType")'. And on Windows I get getOption("pkgType") [1] "both" which means in ?getOptions pkgType: The default type of packages to be downloaded and ins

Re: [Rd] Unexpected behaviour with download.packages on Windows

2017-09-29 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, The help pages for download.packages and install.packages say 'type = getOption("pkgType")'. And on Windows I get getOption("pkgType") [1] "both" which means in ?getOptions pkgType: The default type of packages to be downloaded and installed – see install.packages. Possible values

[Rd] Unexpected behaviour with download.packages on Windows

2017-09-29 Thread Hong Ooi via R-devel
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 pack