more sanity checking of arguments using asRbool #8165

Job	Run time
MacOS (macOS-13)	42m 41s
Linux (gcc, debian:stable, intel)	34m 16s
MacOS (macOS-14)	22m 25s
Windows (check)	50m 24s
Linux (gcc, debian:stable, arm)	47m 47s
Windows (installer)	19m 14s
Linux (gcc, debian:testing, intel)	33m 4s
Linux (gcc, debian:testing, arm)	48m 7s
Linux (clang, debian:stable, intel)	35m 34s
Linux (clang, debian:stable, arm)	46m 41s
Linux (clang, debian:testing, intel)	37m 4s
Linux (clang, debian:testing, arm)	44m 44s
	7h 42m 1s

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