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

[Tomas Kalibera]

A quick workaround if you needed to execute R expressions in Windows is 
calling RTerm directly.
But a fix should be available soon.

Tomas

On 12/05/2017 05:51 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> 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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