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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

...> Hi Zach, > > thanks for the report, I can reproduce the problem and confirm it is a > bug in R and will be fixed. > > Hopefully it only impacts few users now. The workaround is to create > the short name for the directory where R is installed, 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 Bjornso...

Hi Zach, thanks for the report, I can reproduce the problem and confirm it is a bug in R and will be fixed. Hopefully it only impacts few users now. The workaround is to create the short name for the directory where R is installed, 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 appe...

...> thanks for the report, I can reproduce the problem and confirm it is >> a bug in R and will be fixed. >> >> Hopefully it only impacts few users now. The workaround is to create >> the short name for the directory where R is installed, 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 >> >> &gt...