jochen laubrock
2010-Mar-25 23:07 UTC
[Rd] R CMD install: problem quoting spaces when calling gzip?
There appears to be a quoting problem in the way R CMD install handles file
names containing spaces, more specifically, in the way the argument is passed
through to gzip.
The install.packages command
(from R)
install.packages("~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz",
repos = NULL, type = "source")
expands to
system("R_LIBS='/Users/foo/Library/R/2.10/library'
"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R CMD INSTALL -l
'/Users/foo/Library/R/2.10/library' '/Users/foo/Projects/R\
library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz'")
and gives the same error messages as the following commands from Terminal.app on
Mac OS X
(from bash)
R CMD install /Users/foo/Projects/R\ library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz
R CMD install "~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz"
R CMD install '~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz'
, namely (the error messages):
gzip: /Users/foo/Projects/R.gz: No such file or directory
gzip: library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz: No such file or directory
The following commands do work
(from R)
setwd("~/Projects/R library/bar/")
install.packages("eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type =
"source")
(from bash)
cd ~/Projects/R\ library/bar/
R CMD install eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz
Interestingly, if the file is unpacked on the command line (tar xzvf), then both
R CMD install and install.packages work fine using the quoted path name syntax,
i.e.,
R CMD install /Users/foo/Projects/R\ library/bar/eyetrackR
install.packages("~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR", repos = NULL,
type = "source")
Is this a known problem? I searched the archives, but did not find a decisive
answer (only some rather old posts suggesting not to use path names containing
spaces--unfortunately this is not an option in the managed Windows environment I
need to work in next week).
Sorry for the long post and thanks for your time,
Jochen
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Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
phone: +49-331-977-2346, fax: +49-331-977-2793
Prof Brian Ripley
2010-Mar-26 09:19 UTC
[Rd] R CMD install: problem quoting spaces when calling gzip?
You haven't told us your version of R (nor any of the other information requested in the posting guide). As far as I can see this works in 2.11.0 alpha. On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, jochen laubrock wrote:> There appears to be a quoting problem in the way R CMD install handles file names containing spaces, more specifically, in the way the argument is passed through to gzip. > > The install.packages command > > (from R) > install.packages("~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source") > > expands to > > system("R_LIBS='/Users/foo/Library/R/2.10/library' "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R CMD INSTALL -l '/Users/foo/Library/R/2.10/library' '/Users/foo/Projects/R\ library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz'")So that is fine.> > and gives the same error messages as the following commands from Terminal.app on Mac OS X > > (from bash) > R CMD install /Users/foo/Projects/R\ library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz > R CMD install "~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz" > R CMD install '~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz'the documented command is INSTALL.> , namely (the error messages): > > gzip: /Users/foo/Projects/R.gz: No such file or directory > gzip: library/bar/eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz: No such file or directoryYes, and INSTALL is not designed to work with paths with spaces in on Unix-alikes.> > The following commands do work > > (from R) > setwd("~/Projects/R library/bar/") > install.packages("eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source") > > (from bash) > cd ~/Projects/R\ library/bar/ > R CMD install eyetrackR_0.13.tar.gz > > Interestingly, if the file is unpacked on the command line (tar xzvf), then both R CMD install and install.packages work fine using the quoted path name syntax, i.e., > > R CMD install /Users/foo/Projects/R\ library/bar/eyetrackR > install.packages("~/Projects/R library/bar/eyetrackR", repos = NULL, type = "source") > > Is this a known problem?It is a known restriction.> I searched the archives, but did not find a decisive answer (onlysome rather old posts suggesting not to use path names containing spaces--unfortunately this is not an option in the managed Windows environment I need to work in next week).> > Sorry for the long post and thanks for your time, > Jochen > > ---- > Jochen Laubrock, Dept. of Psychology, University of Potsdam, > Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany > phone: +49-331-977-2346, fax: +49-331-977-2793 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595