[Rd] installing from source

[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 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 say
>      > this constitutes a legitimate bug.  Would replacing both single-quotes
>      > below with \\' solve the problem?
> 
> Here, I'm mostly among the  "Why would anyone do that??" people,
> but I agree that it's worth some effort to try fixing this.
> 
> To your question above: Why don't you create a repr.ex. (we'd
> want anyway for R-bugzilla) and *see* if your proposition solves
> it - or did I misinterpret the Q?
> 
>      > I'm happy to post this (with a patch if my fix seems appropriate) on
>      > r-bugzilla.
> 
> 
>      > cheers
>      > Ben Bolker
> 
>      > line 1672 of src/library/tools/R/install.R :
> 
>      > cmd <- paste0("tools:::.test_load_package('", pkg_name, "', ",
>      > quote_path(lib), ")")
> 
> 
>      > https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/2eade649c80725352256f16509f9ff6919fd079c/src/library/tools/R/install.R#L1672
> 
>      > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15129888/r-cmd-install-error-unexpected-symbol-in-test-load-package-function
> 
>      > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65462881/cannot-download-packages-from-github-from-unexpected-symbol
> 
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