[Rd] Bug in RScript.exe for 3.5.0

[Tomas Kalibera]

Fixed in R-devel. I will port to R-patched after more testing.
Tomas

On 04/26/2018 01:52 AM, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
> Thanks for the report. A quick workaround before this gets fixed is to 
> add an extra first argument that has no space in it, e.g.
>
> Rscript --vanilla "foo bar.R"
>
> The problem exists on all systems, not just Windows.
>
> Best
> Tomas
>
> On 04/25/2018 09:55 PM, Kerry Jackson wrote:
>> Hi R Developers,
>> I have found what I think is a bug in the RScript.exe in version 
>> 3.5.0 of R for Windows.
>> When I call Rscript.exe for Version 3.5 of R, it is unable to open 
>> the file if the file name or path has a space in it.
>> As an example of what happens, I saved 2 files with the code:
>> cat("What do you get when you multiply 6 * 9?")
>> as C:\foo bar.R and as C:\foo_bar.R
>> When I in a DOS command window try to run these using version 3.4.3 
>> and 3.5:
>> C:\>"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.3\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\foo bar.R"
>> What do you get when you multiply 6 * 9?
>> C:\>"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.3\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\foo_bar.R"
>> What do you get when you multiply 6 * 9?
>> C:\>"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.5.0\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\foo bar.R"
>> Fatal error: cannot open file 'C:\foo': No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> C:\>"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.5.0\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\foo_bar.R"
>> What do you get when you multiply 6 * 9?
>> C:\>
>> When I try to run the file with a space in the name in version 3.5.0 
>> of R, there is a fatal error saying there is no such file.
>>
>>
>> Kerry Jackson
>> Job title: Senior Account Manager, Ipsos Connect US RA Testing GMU
>> Phone: (203) 840-3443
>>
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