[R] R bug when started in Windows 10

[Bert Gunter]

I have cc'ed this to r-help. As I said, I am not on Windows and so
cannot help directly.

-- Bert
Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
and sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Itamar José G. Nunes
<nunesijg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 José
>
> 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
>>
>>
>> Bert Gunter
>>
>> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
>> and sticking things into it."
>> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Itamar José G. Nunes
>> <nunesijg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Greetings, CRAN supporter. I am Itamar José, 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' nÆo ‚ 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!
>> >
>> > --
>> > "I am a firm believer that without speculation there is no good and
>> > original observation." - Charles Darwin
>> >
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