Hi all, I'm considering filing this as a bug report but wanted to make sure first that I'm not doing something wrong.
A piece of software which I develop installs R as part of its dependencies. This normally works perfectly fine. However we noticed a bug when installing to external drives on a path that includes a space, RScript.exe and R.exe will not work. E:\Program Files (x86)\R-3-3-3\bin>Rscript.exe 'E:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. As you can see I'm in the directory itself, and simply calling the executable without entering a path. Similarly, if I do enter the full path with quote marks, I get the same issue. E:\>"E:\Program Files (x86)\R-3-3-3\bin\Rscript.exe" 'E:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. At this stage I'm thinking it's either an R bug or a Windows bug, but I can run the following just fine. E:\Program Files (x86)\HelloWorldProj\bin>HelloWorldProj.exe Hello, world! I've tested this with two variables. A - Using the R installer OR Simply copying the binaries B - Writing to E:\R-3-3-3 OR Writing to E:\Program Files (x86)\R-3-3-3 A does not affect the outcome in any way, however R only works when B uses the path without spaces. I searched elsewhere on the internet for the same and interestingly it was another R install with this issue. I believe the commenters here were erroneously attributing it to the user. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43510438/how-to-run-an-executable-that-contains-a-space-in-path-from-command-line-on-wind Any thoughts? I'm open to a sensible workaround, and if it is a bug I'm happy to raise it. Thanks, Marc [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
