[R] limits on the length of the name of a script file in R 2.6.0.?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11/26/2007 11:03 AM, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote:
> Hello!
> I posted earlier - about my problems with R 2.6 crashing (i.e.,
> telling me it needs to shut down) every time I tried to open an R
> script. First, it looked like it was unhappy with my working outside
> of R folder (under Program Files). But not it looks like it was not
> really the problem.
> Now, it opens and works when I open scripts whose names are not very
> long (e.g., "Selecting cases I need.R"). But it does crash (gives me a
> message that R needs to shut down) when the script I am trying to open
> has a slightly longer file name (e.g, in my case:
> "randforestImportanceExample with MR.r" and longer).
> 
> Is anyone aware of the limits the latest version of R imposes on
> script name length? I never experienced such a problem with R 2.5.0.

The latest version of R is 2.6.1 (released today), but I doubt if you're 
using that yet.  It has the same limit as Windows on filename length.

2.6.0 had a bug which meant long filenames could cause a crash.  This 
was repaired a couple of weeks ago:

http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-2-6-branch/2007/11/10#c2007-11-10

Duncan Murdoch