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), also, see inline below
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 11:36 PM, Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera at gmail.com
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.
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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