R bug when started in Windows 10

Hello, Bert Gunter. Firstly, thanks for the response.
As you recommended, I tried to check if RStudio could run a R version inside
a whitespace-containing directory. In fact, it takes effect, and this
problem appears to not affect RStudio.
However, I don't have any idea of how it worked. The application that I'm
developing also cannot depend on RStudio, since it requires a portable
version of R. The resolution can be something trivial, such as a correction
of the commas when the inner machinery of R calls the base libraries or
something like that (the Batch language in Windows has such mistakes when
running, and putting commas can solve it). Or else it can be nothing
trivial, such as error that can compromise the executable. If you don't
matter to ask, is there something that I can do about it? Like a correction
in some part of the code.

Cheers,
Itamar Jos?

2016-08-14 18:14 GMT-03:00 Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>:

I'm not on Windows and cannot help directly. But you might consider
downloading Rstudio ( https://www.rstudio.com/ ) and running R through
that. Their website should contain the info you need to get things up
and running.

Cheers,
Bert


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On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Itamar Jos? G. Nunes
<nunesijg at gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings, CRAN supporter. I am Itamar Jos?, a Brazilian programmer and
biotechnology student.
I'm using R from some time ago, most of the time working with it in
Windows
7, but since I changed to Windows 10, I'm having some bugs when R
platform
particularly in this new operational system. If there's not problem, I
would like some help from you for what I can do about this issue.
I have asked about this problem in StarkOverflow, but no resolution was
suggested until now. As I said there, I'm working with a software
project
that requires the portable version of R platform and my intention is to
use
R in any version of Windows and in any compatible computer. I'm copying
here my answer, as shown below:



*From

[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37173431/r-platform-failed-to-start-in-windows-10-when-inside-directory-containing-white

<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37173431/r-platform-failed-to-start-in-windows-10-when-inside-directory-containing-white>]Problem:*
In Windows 7, R works fine without any worries, even in portable
version.
However, in Windows 10 (and probably also in Windows 8), R does not
start
when put the entire folder inside a directory containing whitespaces
(ex.:
"C:/Users/Main/Documents/My Folder/RVersion").

In Windows 10, with the absence of spaces, R runs fine. In the presence
of
spaces, all executable (Rscript.exe, R.exe, etc) except Rgui.exe just
open
a console and closes instantly. The problem is: I really need that R
works
in any folder (this is a important part of the project).

*Additional information:*

   -

   I found that R does not work well in directories without the 8dot3
   format - and it think that Windows 10 lost this property, which was
present
   in Windows 7. Also, the problem is clear when I run Rgui.exe in a
   whitespace-containing directory and try to run system("R.exe",
intern=TRUE)
   function: It throws an error indicating that only the part before the
first
   space in directory name was taken into account. Here is the message:

   > system("R.exe", intern=TRUE)

   [1] "'C:\\Users\\Main\\DOCUME~1\\My' n?o ? reconhecido como um
comando
   interno" [2] "ou externo, um programa oper vel ou um arquivo em
lotes."
   attr(,"status") [1] 1 Warning message: running command 'R.exe' had
status 1

*Translation of messages [1] and [2]: "'C:\...\My'" not recognized as a
internal or external command, nor a program operation or dataset*

   -

   The same occurs with non-portable version of R, as I already tested.
   -

   When I run with a .bat file with the corrected (quoted) directory as
   input, R.exe runs, but in a disfunctional form and looking like
cmd.exe (no
   R command worked).
   -

   I have no ideia how to change variables such as R_HOME to a readable
   version before R prompt starts.

*System/Resources:*

   - Windows 10 Home 64-bit with the last update.
   - Dell Notebook with Intel i7-5500U 2.40 GHz (not so relevant, I
think)
   - R and R portable 3.3 (last version until this post), downloaded
here: [
   https://sourceforge.net/projects/rportable/]
   <https://sourceforge.net/projects/rportable/%5D>


I believe that, with the popularity of Windows 10, many other users
could
face this problem (specially those who depend of R portability). Because
no
answers were made, and since it remains as a little known issue, I think
the CRAN support is the only one that knows, most than everyone, how to
reach the resolution.

Thanks in advance!

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