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

[Tomas Kalibera]

Fixed in R-devel and R-patched.

Tomas

On 12/05/2017 05:58 PM, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
> 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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