(PR#6830) Re: [Rd] 'R CMD build' fails when there are spaces in the path (PR#6830)

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Prof Brian Ripley writes:

> Note that it *does* work under Windows (via mapping names to short
> names without spaces), so we should take care not to break that (and I
> think adding quotes will as the shell quoting rules appear to be are
> different).

I thought that R_system() would portably invoke a Bourne shell?

-k

> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Kurt Hornik wrote:

>> >>>>> ellis  writes:
>> 
>> > Full_Name: Byron Ellis
>> > Version: R 1.9.0 (and 2.0.0)
>> > OS: Linux (Redhat Fedora Core)
>> > Submission from: (NULL) (140.247.241.197)
>> 
>> 
>> > It appears that `R CMD build` cannot handle spaces in the path when
>> > building packages for distribution. For instance:
>> 
>> > [ellis at net-78815 ~/Bayesian Networks]$ R CMD build bnsl
>> > * checking for file 'bnsl/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
>> > * preparing 'bnsl':
>> > * cleaning src
>> > * removing junk files
>> > * building 'bnsl_0.0.1.tar.gz'
>> > tar: Networks/bnsl_0.0.1.tar: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
>> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>> > tar: Networks/bnsl_0.0.1.tar: Not found in archive
>> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>> > Error: cannot open file 'bnsl/DESCRIPTION' for reading
>> > [ellis at net-78815 ~/Bayesian Networks]$ 
>> 
>> > Results in a file named "Bayesian" (that appears to be the
>> > uncompressed tar file) in ~/. I suspect some missing quotes somewhere.
>> 
>> The problem definitely occurs when calling R CMD build from a dir whose
>> file path contains white space.  Now in R CMD build we have
>> 
>> $ grep filepath build.in 
>> my $filepath = &file_path($startdir, $filename);
>> R_system("zip -r9X $filepath.zip $pkgs $topLevelFiles");
>> R_system("$tar chf $filepath $pkgs $topLevelFiles");
>> R_system("gzip -9f $filepath");
>> my $filepath = &file_path($startdir, $filename);
>> my $origfilepath = $filepath;
>> $filepath =~ s+^([A-Za-x]):+/cygdrive/\1+;
>> R_system("$tar chf $filepath $pkgname");
>> R_system("$tar xhf $filepath");
>> R_system("$tar chf $filepath $pkgname");
>> R_system("gzip -9f $origfilepath");
>> 
>> so in fact in none of the calls to R_system() with $filepath do we
>> currently perform any kind of quoting or shell escaping.
>> 
>> A simple improvement would be quoting all filepaths in R_system() calls
>> via \"...\" or '...'.  Unless someone has a better idea or wants to put
>> in more effort ...

> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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