You might expand the scope of this a bit to include Windows usernames with
non-ASCII characters in them. If I recall correctly, if you are logged
under a Cyrillic UTF-8 name then R will not even start. We have seen this
in the wild.
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
On Fri, Dec 13,
Hello everyone!
Temp paths are used in system2() calls without shQuote() because
they are assumed not to contain spaces. On Windows,
GetShortPathName() is used to try to ensure that.
Unfortunately, sometimes GetShortPathName() silently fails to return a
8.3 file path and gives a full path instead
