Hi all, I am noticing some strange behaviour so I am bringing to this list. In the past when I have submitted bugs to bugzilla, I have come here first for confirmation/advice. Hopefully this is appropriate.
Upgrading from R 3.5.2 to R 3.5.3 seems to have elicited some strange behaviour on my Windows machine. R seems to have trouble spawning a new process on my machine. You can noticing with all sort of packages, like devtools, which try to spawn new R processes. Here is the replication of the beahviour: ## On R 3.5.3 Open a command prompt: H:\>R '"C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-35~1.3/bin/x64/Rterm.exe"' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. H:\>Rscript -e "sessionInfo()" R version 3.5.3 (2019-03-11) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17134) Matrix products: default locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_3.5.3 ## On 3.5.2 H:\>R R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20) -- "Eggshell Igloo" Copyright (C) 2018 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. Natural language support but running in an English locale R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. > q() Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n H:\>Rscript -e "sessionInfo()" R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17134) Matrix products: default locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_3.5.2 ## Considerations - I have manually removed both my .Renviron and .Rprofile files just to ensure those weren't muddling up anything. - I have my PATH set like this "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.5.3\bin" for 3.5.3 and "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.5.2\bin" for 3.5.2 - R 3.5.3 works final if I just open the default console that ships with R. But then anytime I try to launch a new process I get the above error. A similar issue has been raised up before https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-September/074921.html https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2015-September/071714.html Am I missing something obvious here? Many thanks in advance for taking a look. Regards, Sam [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel