[Rd] R INSTALL resumes on Win in case of errors (PR#6769)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I've fixed this.  It seems the shell used was not passing status codes in 
the same way as a real sh.exe.

Under Windows, --save installs assume only the base package.  This is
necessary to bootstrap the build, as all packages are installed with the
same code.  Under Unix they have R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=, that is the default
set.  I think Unix is wrong here, and will change it in R-devel.

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de wrote:

> I just post it not to forget - will try to contribute a fix.
> 
> Example: SparseM_0.34.tar.gz
> 
> Running
>    R INSTALL SparseM
> gives an error ("Execution halted"), but resumes the rest of the 
> installation procedure and prints "* DONE" at the end. Hence R CMD check 
> (either running solely or in maintainer's mode) cannot detect that the 
> installation fails. Output:
> 
> 
> [SNIP ...]
> Creating a new generic function for "solve" in "SparseM"
> [1] "solve"
> Error in setMethod("model.matrix", "matrix.csc.hb", function(object, 
> ...) { :
>      No existing definition for function "model.matrix"
> Execution halted
> Execution of package source for SparseM failed
> mv: cannot stat `.RData': No such file or directory
>    installing demos
> [SNIP ...]
> * DONE
> 
> 
> Also note, that the package installs smoothly on Linux/Unix.
> Looks like package "stats" is attached on Unix/Linux during the 
> installation, but not so on Windows. I told the maintainer to use 
> require("stats") in order to be on the save side. Nevertheless, I think 
> we should try to unify the behaviour.
> 
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> --please do not edit the information below--
> 
> Version:
>   platform = i386-pc-mingw32
>   arch = i386
>   os = mingw32
>   system = i386, mingw32
>   status =
>   major = 1
>   minor = 9.0
>   year = 2004
>   month = 04
>   day = 12
>   language = R
> 
> Windows NT 4.0 (build 1381) Service Pack 6
> 
> Search Path:
>   .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics, 
> package:utils, Autoloads, package:base
> 
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