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2017 Sep 17
2
Bug: Issues on Windows with SFN disabled
Hello,
R appears to assume that Windows drives have short file names (SFN, 8.3)
enabled; for example, that "C:/Program Files/..." is addressable as
"C:/Progra~1/...". Newer versions of Windows have SFN disabled on non-OS
drives, however.
This means that if you install R on a non-OS drive, you
- can't start R.exe from the command line.
- consequently, anything that
2017 Oct 20
2
Bug: Issues on Windows with SFN disabled
...ortname" (for all elements of the path that contain space in
> their name). One can revert this by setting the shortname to an empty
> string (""). At least for the latter one may need to boot in safe mode.
>
> Best
> Tomas
>
>
> On 09/17/2017 08:23 PM, Zach Bjornson wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> R appears to assume that Windows drives have short file names (SFN, 8.3)
>> enabled; for example, that "C:/Program Files/..." is addressable as
>> "C:/Progra~1/...". Newer versions of Windows have SFN disabled on non-OS
>&g...
2017 Oct 17
0
Bug: Issues on Windows with SFN disabled
...alled, using "fsutil file
setshortname" (for all elements of the path that contain space in their
name). One can revert this by setting the shortname to an empty string
(""). At least for the latter one may need to boot in safe mode.
Best
Tomas
On 09/17/2017 08:23 PM, Zach Bjornson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> R appears to assume that Windows drives have short file names (SFN, 8.3)
> enabled; for example, that "C:/Program Files/..." is addressable as
> "C:/Progra~1/...". Newer versions of Windows have SFN disabled on non-OS
> drives, however.
>...
2017 Dec 07
0
Bug: Issues on Windows with SFN disabled
...h that contain space
>> in their name). One can revert this by setting the shortname to an
>> empty string (""). At least for the latter one may need to boot in
>> safe mode.
>>
>> Best
>> Tomas
>>
>>
>> On 09/17/2017 08:23 PM, Zach Bjornson wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> R appears to assume that Windows drives have short file names (SFN,
>>> 8.3)
>>> enabled; for example, that "C:/Program Files/..." is addressable as
>>> "C:/Progra~1/...". Newer versions of Windows...
2017 Dec 08
4
Bug: Issues on Windows with SFN disabled
For what it's worth, the Windows installers for other programming
language runtimes often install outside of Program Files, so at least
there is 'prior art' to motivate having R install directly into the
root of the home drive:
- ActiveState Perl installs directly C:/Perl;
- Python installs (when installing for all users) into C:/Python$VERSION;
- The Ruby installers at