R devel - Mar 2019 - R 3.5.3 having trouble spawning a new process on my Windows 10 machine

Hi all,

I am noticing some strange behaviour so I am bringing to this list. In the
past when I have submitted bugs to bugzilla, I have come here first for
confirmation/advice. Hopefully this is appropriate.

Upgrading from R 3.5.2 to R 3.5.3 seems to have elicited some strange
behaviour on my Windows machine. R seems to have trouble spawning a new
process on my machine. You can noticing with all sort of packages, like
devtools, which try to spawn new R processes. Here is the replication of
the beahviour:



## On R 3.5.3
Open a command prompt:

H:\>R
'"C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-35~1.3/bin/x64/Rterm.exe"' is not recognized
as an
internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

H:\>Rscript -e "sessionInfo()"
R version 3.5.3 (2019-03-11)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17134)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.5.3



## On 3.5.2
H:\>R

R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20) -- "Eggshell Igloo"
Copyright (C) 2018 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.
> q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n

H:\>Rscript -e "sessionInfo()"
R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17134)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.5.2



## Considerations
- I have manually removed both my .Renviron and .Rprofile files just to
ensure those weren't muddling up anything.
- I have my PATH set like this "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.5.3\bin"  for
3.5.3
and "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.5.2\bin" for 3.5.2
- R 3.5.3 works final if I just open the default console that ships with R.
But then anytime I try to launch a new process I get the above error.

A similar issue has been raised up before
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-September/074921.html
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2015-September/071714.html

Am I missing something obvious here? Many thanks in advance for taking a
look.

Regards,

Sam

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Hi Joris,

Thanks for trying.
> Is your PATH set on your user environment variables or on the system?
It is set as a system variable
> Did you try to remove the entry for R-3.5.2 ?
For each version iteration in the above example, I only had the path of the
version that I was working with. So yes.

Sam


On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 9:11 AM Joris Meys <jorismeys at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sam,
>
> Is your PATH set on your user environment variables or on the system?
> Did you try to remove the entry for R-3.5.2 ?
>
> I have tested with a standard install, and I can't reproduce your
error. I
> have the exact same path in my system PATH environment variable for 3.5.3,
> and nothing for other versions.
>
> Sorry I can't be of any more help.
> Cheers
> Joris
>
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 4:54 PM Sam Albers <sam.albers at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am noticing some strange behaviour so I am bringing to this list. In
the
>> past when I have submitted bugs to bugzilla, I have come here first for
>> confirmation/advice. Hopefully this is appropriate.
>>
>> Upgrading from R 3.5.2 to R 3.5.3 seems to have elicited some strange
>> behaviour on my Windows machine. R seems to have trouble spawning a new
>> process on my machine. You can noticing with all sort of packages, like
>> devtools, which try to spawn new R processes. Here is the replication
of
>> the beahviour:
>>
>>
>>
>> ## On R 3.5.3
>> Open a command prompt:
>>
>> H:\>R
>> '"C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-35~1.3/bin/x64/Rterm.exe"' is not
recognized as an
>> internal or external command,
>> operable program or batch file.
>>
>> H:\>Rscript -e "sessionInfo()"
>> R version 3.5.3 (2019-03-11)
>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17134)
>>
>> Matrix products: default
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] compiler_3.5.3
>>
>>
>>
>> ## On 3.5.2
>> H:\>R
>>
>> R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20) -- "Eggshell Igloo"
>> Copyright (C) 2018 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>>
>> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
>> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution
details.
>>
>>   Natural language support but running in an English locale
>>
>> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
>> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
>> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>>
>> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line
help, or
>> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>>
>> > q()
>> Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
>>
>> H:\>Rscript -e "sessionInfo()"
>> R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17134)
>>
>> Matrix products: default
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] compiler_3.5.2
>>
>>
>>
>> ## Considerations
>> - I have manually removed both my .Renviron and .Rprofile files just to
>> ensure those weren't muddling up anything.
>> - I have my PATH set like this "C:\Program
Files\R\R-3.5.3\bin"  for 3.5.3
>> and "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.5.2\bin" for 3.5.2
>> - R 3.5.3 works final if I just open the default console that ships
with
>> R.
>> But then anytime I try to launch a new process I get the above error.
>>
>> A similar issue has been raised up before
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-September/074921.html
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2015-September/071714.html
>>
>> Am I missing something obvious here? Many thanks in advance for taking
a
>> look.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sam
>>
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>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>>
>
>
> --
> Joris Meys
> Statistical consultant
>
> Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling
> Ghent University
> Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent (Belgium)
>
>
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Hi Sam,

Is your PATH set on your user environment variables or on the system?
Did you try to remove the entry for R-3.5.2 ?

I have tested with a standard install, and I can't reproduce your error. I
have the exact same path in my system PATH environment variable for 3.5.3,
and nothing for other versions.

Sorry I can't be of any more help.
Cheers
Joris

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 4:54 PM Sam Albers <sam.albers at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am noticing some strange behaviour so I am bringing to this list. In the
> past when I have submitted bugs to bugzilla, I have come here first for
> confirmation/advice. Hopefully this is appropriate.
>
> Upgrading from R 3.5.2 to R 3.5.3 seems to have elicited some strange
> behaviour on my Windows machine. R seems to have trouble spawning a new
> process on my machine. You can noticing with all sort of packages, like
> devtools, which try to spawn new R processes. Here is the replication of
> the beahviour:
>
>
>
> ## On R 3.5.3
> Open a command prompt:
>
> H:\>R
> '"C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-35~1.3/bin/x64/Rterm.exe"' is not
recognized as an
> internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> H:\>Rscript -e "sessionInfo()"
> R version 3.5.3 (2019-03-11)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17134)
>
> Matrix products: default
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_3.5.3
>
>
>
> ## On 3.5.2
> H:\>R
>
> R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20) -- "Eggshell Igloo"
> Copyright (C) 2018 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>
>   Natural language support but running in an English locale
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
> > q()
> Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
>
> H:\>Rscript -e "sessionInfo()"
> R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17134)
>
> Matrix products: default
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_3.5.2
>
>
>
> ## Considerations
> - I have manually removed both my .Renviron and .Rprofile files just to
> ensure those weren't muddling up anything.
> - I have my PATH set like this "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.5.3\bin" 
for 3.5.3
> and "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.5.2\bin" for 3.5.2
> - R 3.5.3 works final if I just open the default console that ships with R.
> But then anytime I try to launch a new process I get the above error.
>
> A similar issue has been raised up before
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-September/074921.html
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2015-September/071714.html
>
> Am I missing something obvious here? Many thanks in advance for taking a
> look.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sam
>
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>
> ______________________________________________
> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>

-- 
Joris Meys
Statistical consultant

Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling
Ghent University
Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent (Belgium)
<https://maps.google.com/?q=Coupure+links+653,%C2%A0B-9000+Gent,%C2%A0Belgium&entry=gmail&source=g>

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