[Rd] R crash using Sys.which on Windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is a change in behaviour of the Windows API function since the code 
was written (years ago).  It will be changed in R 3.1.1: meanwhile you 
can always use the shortPathName to abbreviate the name.


On 06/05/2014 19:28, Tobias Verbeke wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> When installing the latest version of Rtools (3.1.0.1942) into a path that contains more than 96 characters on Windows 7 64-bit,
> e.g. into
>
> C:\TheLatestRtoolsInAPathWithMoreThanNinetySixCharactersWillCrashTheRSessionUponCallingTheSysWhichFunctionInRToGetTheGccPath
>
> and assuming that the Rtools bin paths have been appropriately added to the PATH environment variable as in
>
> c:\TheLatestRtoolsInAPathWithMoreThanNinetySixCharactersWillCrashTheRSessionUponCallingTheSysWhichFunctionInRToGetTheGccPath\bin;c:\TheLatestRtoolsInAPathWithMoreThanNinetySixCharactersWillCrashTheRSessionUponCallingTheSysWhichFunctionInRToGetTheGccPath\gcc-4.6.3\bin
>
> the following call from RGui 64-bit (version 3.1.0) reproducibly causes R to crash:
>
> Sys.which("ls")
>
> Sys.which seems to use an internal function on Windows. Is this a known issue?
>
> Please let me know if I can provide any more relevant information.
>
> Best,
> Tobias
>
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