Re: [Rd] installing from source

2020-12-28 Thread Ben Bolker
Kevin Ushey pointed out to me privately that he submitted a bug report and a patch for this about a month ago, which Kurt Hornik put in R-devel (c79477): https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17973 On 12/28/20 4:35 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: Ben Bolker on Sun, 27 Dec 2020

Re: [Rd] installing from source

2020-12-28 Thread Martin Maechler
> Ben Bolker > on Sun, 27 Dec 2020 15:02:47 -0500 writes: > There is a recurring issue with installing from source into paths > that contain single quotes/apostrophes. "Why would anyone do that??" is > certainly a legitimate response to such a problem, but I would also s

[Rd] installing from source

2020-12-27 Thread Ben Bolker
There is a recurring issue with installing from source into paths that contain single quotes/apostrophes. "Why would anyone do that??" is certainly a legitimate response to such a problem, but I would also say this constitutes a legitimate bug. Would replacing both single-quotes below with \