[Rd] command line arguments are parsed differently on windows, from 3.4.3

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Sorry for not reading carefully and thanks for confirming problem with
Rscript too.

On Dec 5, 2017 08:47, "Gábor Csárdi" <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Henrik Bengtsson
> <henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > One comment:
> > For your R devel example you didn't use spaces in the expression, i.e.
> maybe
> > that's broken too with spaces?
>
> I did. There are two R-devel examples, one with spaces (buggy) and one
> without spaces (works).
> To show that spaces are the problem.
>
> > Three questions:
> > Does it work if you avoid spaces?
>
> It seems so.
>
> > Does it work if you use single quotes?
>
> It does not, single quotes are not special characters for windows, so
> you'll get a different error. In
> R -q -e '1 + 1'
> there are three arguments after the -e: '1 and + and 1'
>
> > Does this also occur for Rscript?
>
> It seems so indeed.
>
> Gabor
>
> > Thxs
> >
> > Henrik
> >
> >
> > On Dec 5, 2017 03:44, "Gábor Csárdi" <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I wonder if this is intended.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gabor
> >
> >
> > C:\Users\rhub>"c:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.2\bin\R" -q -e "1 + 1"
> >> 1 + 1
> > [1] 2
> >>
> >>
> >
> > C:\Users\rhub>"c:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.3\bin\R" -q -e "1 + 1"
> > 'c:\PROGRA~1\R\R-34~1.3\bin\x64\R.exe" -q -e "1' is not recognized as an
> > interna
> > l or external command,
> > operable program or batch file.
> >
> > C:\Users\rhub>"c:\Program Files\R\R-devel\bin\R" -q -e "1 + 1"
> > 'c:\PROGRA~1\R\R-devel\bin\x64\R.exe" -q -e "1' is not recognized as an
> > internal
> >  or external command,
> > operable program or batch file.
> >
> > C:\Users\rhub>"c:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.3patched\bin\R" -q -e "1 + 1"
> > 'c:\PROGRA~1\R\R-34~1.3PA\bin\x64\R.exe" -q -e "1' is not recognized as
> an
> > inter
> > nal or external command,
> > operable program or batch file.
> >
> > C:\Users\rhub>"c:\Program Files\R\R-devel\bin\R" -q -e "1+1"
> >> 1+1
> > [1] 2
> >>
> >>
> >
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