[Rd] Bug in RScript.exe for 3.5.0

Henrik Bengtsson henrik.bengtsson at gmail.com
Sun Apr 29 22:17:12 CEST 2018 

On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Simone Giannerini
<sgiannerini at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Tomas,
>>
>> thank you for fixing the bug, I still do not find it mentioned in the
>> changelog though (neither R-patched nor R-devel),

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html has a link
to https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/NEWS.R-3.5.0patched.html
that mentions it:

* Allow file argument of Rscript to include space even when it is
first on the command line.

/Henrik


>> also, see inline below
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 11:36 PM, Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I don't have an opinion if this requires 3.5.1 to be released soon(er),
>>> but I have ported to R-patched now. The bug existed in R-devel for a year
>>> without being spotted, which is quite a long time - but it may be these
>>> bugs are hard to find before release, because people testing and using an
>>> unreleased version of R would not use space in file names. As apparently
>>> users of released versions do, we should do better about testing, perhaps
>>> test regularly with space in path names on a system that supports it. I
>>> think normal regression tests should not depend on such support.
>>>
>>> In either case, I would recommend users to avoid space in file names to
>>> be safe.
>>
>>
>> note that sometimes users have little or no control over this. For
>> instance, the bug broke the RManager interface between R, knitr and Winedt
>> since Winedt installs itself and its data in directories with spaces in the
>> filename/path and RManager calls are something of the kind
>>
>> Rscript.exe "%b\Exec\R\Knitr.R" filename.Rnw
>>
>> where %b is the local Winedt directory that by default has spaces in its
>> path. Before you suggested the workaround I had to convert manually the
>> paths to the dos 8.3 format in order to make it work again.
>>
>> Ciao,
>>
>> Simone
>>
>>
>>> One known problem is that some packages will not build when RHOME has
>>> space in its name (on Windows, this is not a problem on drives with short
>>> file names supported, but that is not always the case) - CRAN is now
>>> checking the most common source of this issue, but there may be more.
>>>
>>> Tomas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/28/2018 07:23 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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