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

[Sam Albers]

Hi Joris,

Thanks for trying.

> Is your PATH set on your user environment variables or on the system?

It is set as a system variable

> Did you try to remove the entry for R-3.5.2 ?
For each version iteration in the above example, I only had the path of the
version that I was working with. So yes.

Sam


On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 9:11 AM Joris Meys <jorismeys using gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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