[Rd] Bug in RScript.exe for 3.5.0

[Yihui Xie]

It seems the fix has not been ported to the patched version of R on
Windows yet. I just tested R version 3.5.0 Patched (2018-04-27
r74667).

IMHO this bug is so bad that it is worth a new release R 3.5.1 before
it starts biting more users like this one
https://stackoverflow.com/q/50077412/559676. BTW, although the bug has
been fixed (https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/c29f694), I think
it will be even better if a corresponding test is added at the same
time to prevent this from happening again in the future.

Thanks!

Yihui

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 7:03 AM, Kerry Jackson <Kerry.Jackson at ipsos.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Tomas,
>
> I confirm the R Under development (unstable) (2018-04-26 r74651) version works for Rscript when the file name has a space, and no arguments are specified.
>
> C:\>"C:\Program Files\R\R-devel\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\foo bar.R"
> R Under development (unstable) (2018-04-26 r74651)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
>
> Matrix products: default
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_3.6.0
>
> C:\>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomas Kalibera [mailto:tomas.kalibera at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 10:22 AM
> To: Kerry Jackson <Kerry.Jackson at Ipsos.com>
> Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Bug in RScript.exe for 3.5.0
>
> Thanks, actually this is because the snapshot build is still one version behind (74642, the fix is in 74643). When I build my own installer and install it seems to be working fine. Sorry for the confusion,
>
> Tomas
>
> On 04/26/2018 02:49 PM, Kerry Jackson wrote:
> > 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
> >>>> Job title: Senior Account Manager, Ipsos Connect US RA Testing GMU
> >>>> Phone: (203) 840-3443
> >>>>
> >>>>
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