R devel - Jul 2013 - R -e "" crashes on Windows (but not Rterm -e "")

On Windows, the following crashes "R for Windows terminal front-end":

R -e ""

whereas

Rterm -e "" or R -e " " (a space in the expression)
doesn't.

I observe this on:

- R Under development (unstable) (2013-07-26 r63419) [Platform:
x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)]
- R version 3.0.1 Patched (2013-07-25 r63414) [Platform:
x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)]
- R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) [Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)]
- R version 2.15.3 Patched (2013-03-13 r62402) [Platform:
x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)]

Can others reproduce this?  If so, I'll submit a bug report.  (On
Linux/OSX it does not crash/core dump.).

/Henrik

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at
biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> On Windows, the following crashes "R for Windows terminal
front-end":
>
> R -e ""
>
> whereas
>
> Rterm -e "" or R -e " " (a space in the expression)
doesn't.
>
> I observe this on:
>
> - R Under development (unstable) (2013-07-26 r63419) [Platform:
> x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)]
> - R version 3.0.1 Patched (2013-07-25 r63414) [Platform:
> x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)]
> - R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) [Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)]
> - R version 2.15.3 Patched (2013-03-13 r62402) [Platform:
> x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)]
>
> Can others reproduce this?  If so, I'll submit a bug report.  (On
> Linux/OSX it does not crash/core dump.).
Following Duncan Murdoch's advice in a related message, I've filed bug
report PR#15406
[https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15406].

/Henrik
>
> /Henrik