Thanks Tomas. I confirm the quick workaround works for me in the DOS prompt, and when having a shortcut to RScript in SendTo, and when used in the Task Scheduler. I have not tested the R-devel version, due to my unfamiliarity with installing from source code.
-----Original Message----- From: Tomas Kalibera [mailto:tomas.kalib...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 6:34 AM To: Kerry Jackson <kerry.jack...@ipsos.com>; r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Bug in RScript.exe for 3.5.0 Fixed in R-devel. I will port to R-patched after more testing. Tomas On 04/26/2018 01:52 AM, Tomas Kalibera wrote: > Thanks for the report. A quick workaround before this gets fixed is to > add an extra first argument that has no space in it, e.g. > > Rscript --vanilla "foo bar.R" > > The problem exists on all systems, not just Windows. > > Best > Tomas > > On 04/25/2018 09:55 PM, Kerry Jackson wrote: >> Hi R Developers, >> I have found what I think is a bug in the RScript.exe in version >> 3.5.0 of R for Windows. >> When I call Rscript.exe for Version 3.5 of R, it is unable to open >> the file if the file name or path has a space in it. >> As an example of what happens, I saved 2 files with the code: >> cat("What do you get when you multiply 6 * 9?") as C:\foo bar.R and >> as C:\foo_bar.R When I in a DOS command window try to run these using >> version 3.4.3 and 3.5: >> C:\>"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.3\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\foo bar.R" >> What do you get when you multiply 6 * 9? >> C:\>"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.3\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\foo_bar.R" >> What do you get when you multiply 6 * 9? >> C:\>"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.5.0\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\foo bar.R" >> Fatal error: cannot open file 'C:\foo': No such file or directory >> >> >> C:\>"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.5.0\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\foo_bar.R" >> What do you get when you multiply 6 * 9? >> C:\> >> When I try to run the file with a space in the name in version 3.5.0 >> of R, there is a fatal error saying there is no such file. >> >> >> Kerry Jackson >> Job title: Senior Account Manager, Ipsos Connect US RA Testing GMU >> Phone: (203) 840-3443 >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
