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A general description is here.
The default method of ‘split()’ is faster when ‘f’ is an integer vector (for example, when called from ‘tapply()’).
Fake installs now install the contents of directory ‘inst’: some packages use this to install e.g. C++ headers for use by other packages that are independent of the package itself. Option ‘--no-inst’ can be used to get the previous behaviour.