From j@goreck| @end|ng |rom w|t@edu@p|  Fri Sep 27 15:33:20 2019
From: j@goreck| @end|ng |rom w|t@edu@p| (Jan Gorecki)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 15:33:20 +0200
Subject: [Rd] passing extra arguments to devtools::build
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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 <friendly at 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
>
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[Rd] passing extra arguments to devtools::build
Jan Gorecki