On 4 May 2021 at 11:07, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: | Thanks, but I don't understand. That's what I usually do when I build | R with 'recommended' packages. But here, I explicitly do *not* want | to build and install 'recommended' packages with the R installation. | So, I'm going down the --without-recommended-packages path on purpose | and I'm looking for a way to validate such an installation.
I understand the desire, and am sympathetic, but for all+ years I have been building R (or R-devel) from source this has never been optional. Nor has any optionality (for the build of R has a whole) been documented, at least as far as I know. Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel