[Rd] Bug in RScript.exe for 3.5.0

Simone Giannerini
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 20:12:11 -0000

> Dear Tomas,
>
> thank you for fixing the bug, I still do not find it mentioned in the
> changelog though (neither R-patched nor R-devel), also, see inline below
>
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 11:36 PM, Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera at
gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't have an opinion if this requires 3.5.1 to be released
soon(er),
>> but I have ported to R-patched now. The bug existed in R-devel for a
year
>> without being spotted, which is quite a long time - but it may be these
>> bugs are hard to find before release, because people testing and using
an
>> unreleased version of R would not use space in file names. As
apparently
>> users of released versions do, we should do better about testing,
perhaps
>> test regularly with space in path names on a system that supports it. I
>> think normal regression tests should not depend on such support.
>>
>> In either case, I would recommend users to avoid space in file names to
>> be safe.
>
>
> note that sometimes users have little or no control over this. For
> instance, the bug broke the RManager interface between R, knitr and Winedt
> since Winedt installs itself and its data in directories with spaces in the
> filename/path and RManager calls are something of the kind
>
> Rscript.exe "%b\Exec\R\Knitr.R" filename.Rnw
>
> where %b is the local Winedt directory that by default has spaces in its
> path. Before you suggested the workaround I had to convert manually the
> paths to the dos 8.3 format in order to make it work again.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Simone
>
>
>> One known problem is that some packages will not build when RHOME has
>> space in its name (on Windows, this is not a problem on drives with
short
>> file names supported, but that is not always the case) - CRAN is now
>> checking the most common source of this issue, but there may be more.
>>
>> Tomas
>>
>>
>>
>> On 04/28/2018 07:23 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
>>
>>> It seems the fix has not been ported to the patched version of R on
>>> Windows yet. I just tested R version 3.5.0 Patched (2018-04-27
>>> r74667).
>>>
>>> IMHO this bug is so bad that it is worth a new release R 3.5.1
before
>>> it starts biting more users like this one
>>> https://stackoverflow.com/q/50077412/559676. BTW, although the bug
has
>>> been fixed (https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/c29f694), I
think
>>> it will be even better if a corresponding test is added at the same
>>> time to prevent this from happening again in the future.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Yihui
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 7:03 AM, Kerry Jackson <Kerry.Jackson at
ipsos.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Tomas,
>>>>
>>>> I confirm the R Under development (unstable) (2018-04-26
r74651)
>>>> version works for Rscript when the file name has a space, and
no arguments
>>>> are specified.
>>>>
>>>> C:\>"C:\Program
Files\R\R-devel\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\foo bar.R"
>>>> R Under development (unstable) (2018-04-26 r74651)
>>>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>>>> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
>>>>
>>>> Matrix products: default
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
>>>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
>>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>>>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
base
>>>>
>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>> [1] compiler_3.6.0
>>>>
>>>> C:\>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Tomas Kalibera [mailto:tomas.kalibera at gmail.com]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 10:22 AM
>>>> To: Kerry Jackson <Kerry.Jackson at Ipsos.com>
>>>> Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [Rd] Bug in RScript.exe for 3.5.0
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, actually this is because the snapshot build is still
one
>>>> version behind (74642, the fix is in 74643). When I build my
own installer
>>>> and install it seems to be working fine. Sorry for the
confusion,
>>>>
>>>> Tomas
>>>>
>>>> On 04/26/2018 02:49 PM, Kerry Jackson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Tomas,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the info about the binary builds; I did install
it, however
>>>>> the bug still seems to be there in the current build.  The
workaround you
>>>>> suggested does work:
>>>>>
>>>>> C:\>"C:\Program
Files\R\R-devel\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\foo bar.R"
>>>>> Fatal error: cannot open file 'C:\foo': No such
file or directory
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> C:\>"C:\Program
Files\R\R-devel\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" --vanilla "C:\foo
>>>>> bar.R"
>>>>> What do you get when you multiply 6 * 9?
>>>>> C:\>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Tomas Kalibera [mailto:tomas.kalibera at gmail.com]
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 8:35 AM
>>>>> To: Kerry Jackson <Kerry.Jackson at Ipsos.com>;
r-devel at r-project.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Rd] Bug in RScript.exe for 3.5.0
>>>>>
>>>>> On 04/26/2018 02:23 PM, Kerry Jackson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Tomas.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I confirm the quick workaround works for me in the DOS
prompt, and
>>>>>> when having a shortcut to RScript in SendTo, and when
used in the Task
>>>>>> Scheduler.  I have not tested the R-devel version, due
to my unfamiliarity
>>>>>> with installing from source code.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, Kerry.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are binary builds for daily snapshots of R-devel
>>>>> (development/unstable version of R) at
>>>>> https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html
>>>>>
>>>>> At this time the build should already have the fix.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best
>>>>> Tomas
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Tomas Kalibera [mailto:tomas.kalibera at
gmail.com]
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 6:34 AM
>>>>>> To: Kerry Jackson <Kerry.Jackson at Ipsos.com>;
r-devel at r-project.org
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Rd] Bug in RScript.exe for 3.5.0
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fixed in R-devel. I will port to R-patched after more
testing.
>>>>>> Tomas
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 04/26/2018 01:52 AM, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for the report. A quick workaround before
this gets fixed is
>>>>>>> to add an extra first argument that has no space in
it, e.g.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rscript --vanilla "foo bar.R"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The problem exists on all systems, not just
Windows.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best
>>>>>>> Tomas
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 04/25/2018 09:55 PM, Kerry Jackson wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi R Developers,
>>>>>>>> I have found what I think is a bug in the
RScript.exe in version
>>>>>>>> 3.5.0 of R for Windows.
>>>>>>>> When I call Rscript.exe for Version 3.5 of R,
it is unable to open
>>>>>>>> the file if the file name or path has a space
in it.
>>>>>>>> As an example of what happens, I saved 2 files
with the code:
>>>>>>>> cat("What do you get when you multiply 6 *
9?") as C:\foo bar.R and
>>>>>>>> as C:\foo_bar.R When I in a DOS command window
try to run these
>>>>>>>> using version 3.4.3 and 3.5:
>>>>>>>> C:\>"C:\Program
Files\R\R-3.4.3\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\foo bar.R"
>>>>>>>> What do you get when you multiply 6 * 9?
>>>>>>>> C:\>"C:\Program
Files\R\R-3.4.3\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\foo_bar.R"
>>>>>>>> What do you get when you multiply 6 * 9?
>>>>>>>> C:\>"C:\Program
Files\R\R-3.5.0\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\foo bar.R"
>>>>>>>> Fatal error: cannot open file 'C:\foo':
No such file or directory
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> C:\>"C:\Program
Files\R\R-3.5.0\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\foo_bar.R"
>>>>>>>> What do you get when you multiply 6 * 9?
>>>>>>>> C:\>
>>>>>>>> When I try to run the file with a space in the
name in version
>>>>>>>> 3.5.0 of R, there is a fatal error saying there
is no such file.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Kerry Jackson
>>>>>>>> Job title: Senior Account Manager, Ipsos
Connect US RA Testing GMU
>>>>>>>> Phone: (203) 840-3443
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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