[Rd] Bug in RScript.exe for 3.5.0

[Kerry Jackson]

Hi Tomas,

Thanks for the info about the binary builds; I did install it, however the bug still seems to be there in the current build.  The workaround you suggested does work:

C:\>"C:\Program Files\R\R-devel\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-devel\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" --vanilla "C:\foo bar.R"
What do you get when you multiply 6 * 9?
C:\>

-----Original Message-----
From: Tomas Kalibera [mailto:tomas.kalibera at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 8:35 AM
To: Kerry Jackson <Kerry.Jackson at Ipsos.com>; r-devel at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [Rd] Bug in RScript.exe for 3.5.0

On 04/26/2018 02:23 PM, Kerry Jackson wrote:
> Thanks Tomas.
>
> I confirm the quick workaround works for me in the DOS prompt, and when having a shortcut to RScript in SendTo, and when used in the Task Scheduler.  I have not tested the R-devel version, due to my unfamiliarity with installing from source code.
Thanks, Kerry.

There are binary builds for daily snapshots of R-devel (development/unstable version of R) at https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html

At this time the build should already have the fix.

Best
Tomas

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomas Kalibera [mailto:tomas.kalibera at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 6:34 AM
> To: Kerry Jackson <Kerry.Jackson at Ipsos.com>; r-devel at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Bug in RScript.exe for 3.5.0
>
> 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
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