[Rd] R 3.5.3 having trouble spawning a new process on my Windows 10 machine

[Joris Meys]

Hi Sam,

Is your PATH set on your user environment variables or on the system?
Did you try to remove the entry for R-3.5.2 ?

I have tested with a standard install, and I can't reproduce your error. I
have the exact same path in my system PATH environment variable for 3.5.3,
and nothing for other versions.

Sorry I can't be of any more help.
Cheers
Joris

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 4:54 PM Sam Albers <sam.albers using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am noticing some strange behaviour so I am bringing to this list. In the
> past when I have submitted bugs to bugzilla, I have come here first for
> confirmation/advice. Hopefully this is appropriate.
>
> Upgrading from R 3.5.2 to R 3.5.3 seems to have elicited some strange
> behaviour on my Windows machine. R seems to have trouble spawning a new
> process on my machine. You can noticing with all sort of packages, like
> devtools, which try to spawn new R processes. Here is the replication of
> the beahviour:
>
>
>
> ## On R 3.5.3
> Open a command prompt:
>
> H:\>R
> '"C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-35~1.3/bin/x64/Rterm.exe"' is not recognized as an
> internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> H:\>Rscript -e "sessionInfo()"
> R version 3.5.3 (2019-03-11)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17134)
>
> Matrix products: default
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_3.5.3
>
>
>
> ## On 3.5.2
> H:\>R
>
> R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20) -- "Eggshell Igloo"
> Copyright (C) 2018 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>
>   Natural language support but running in an English locale
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
> > q()
> Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
>
> H:\>Rscript -e "sessionInfo()"
> R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17134)
>
> Matrix products: default
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_3.5.2
>
>
>
> ## Considerations
> - I have manually removed both my .Renviron and .Rprofile files just to
> ensure those weren't muddling up anything.
> - I have my PATH set like this "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.5.3\bin"  for 3.5.3
> and "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.5.2\bin" for 3.5.2
> - R 3.5.3 works final if I just open the default console that ships with R.
> But then anytime I try to launch a new process I get the above error.
>
> A similar issue has been raised up before
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-September/074921.html
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2015-September/071714.html
>
> Am I missing something obvious here? Many thanks in advance for taking a
> look.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sam
>
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