Hi Dirk, all: your answer prompted me to look in another place, and yes I need to withdraw the bug report: it was a problem on our side.
Thanks, Oleg Dr Oleg Sklyar Research Technologist AHL / Man Investments Ltd +44 (0)20 7144 3803 oskl...@maninvestments.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:e...@debian.org] > Sent: 07 May 2010 15:43 > To: Sklyar, Oleg (London) > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Bug in R -e "command" > > > On 7 May 2010 at 15:23, Sklyar, Oleg (London) wrote: > | Hi all: > | > | since about a month we encountered a problem with R -e > command: spaces > | in the "command" of R -e "command" are no more tolerated. This same > | issue affects 2.11 patched (05-05-2010), 2.10.1, and > current devel (at > | least the one of two weeks ago). > | > | (I skip the mid of the printouts, replaced with ...) > | > | * R -e "message('aaa aaa')" > | ARGUMENT 'aaa')' __ignored__ > > Isn't that a shell quoting issue? I tend to keep the > apostrophe on the > outside and the double-quote on the inside: > > e...@ron:~> R --slave -e 'message("aaa aaa")' > aaa aaa > e...@ron:~> r -e 'message("aaa aaa")' > aaa aaa > e...@ron:~> Rscript -e 'message("aaa aaa")' > aaa aaa > > but also note > > e...@ron:~> R --slave -e "message(\"aaa aaa\")" > aaa aaa > e...@ron:~> R --slave -e "message('aaa aaa')" > aaa aaa > e...@ron:~> > > so I can't even replicate your issue. What what it's worth, > the cut&paste > above came from M-x shell inside Emacs. > > e...@ron:~> dpkg -l r-base-core littler bash emacs23 | tail -4 > ii bash 4.1-3 The GNU Bourne Again SHell > ii emacs23 23.1+1-5 The GNU Emacs editor (with > GTK+ user interfa > ii littler 0.1.3-1 GNU R scripting and > command-line front-end > ii r-base-core 2.11.0-1 GNU R core of statistical > computation and gr > e...@ron:~> > > | > | > | R version 2.11.0 Patched (2010-05-05 r51914) > | Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > | ... > | > | > message('aaa > | + > | + > | > | * /releases/R/2.10/bin/R -e "message('aaa aaa')" > | ARGUMENT 'aaa')' __ignored__ > | > | > | R version 2.10.1 Patched (2010-03-27 r51474) > | Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > | ... > | > | > message('aaa > | + > | + > | > | WORKING OLD VERSION: > | > | * /share/R/20090611/bin/R -e "message('aaa aaa')" > | > | R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17) > | Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > | ... > | > | > message('aaa aaa') > | aaa aaa > | > > | > > | > | > | Dr Oleg Sklyar > | Research Technologist > | AHL / Man Investments Ltd > | +44 (0)20 7144 3803 > | oskl...@maninvestments.comno more > | > | > ********************************************************************** > | Please consider the environment before printing this email > or its attachments. > | The contents of this email are for the named addressees > ...{{dropped:19}} > | > | ______________________________________________ > | R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- > Regards, Dirk > ********************************************************************** Please consider the environment before printing this email or its attachments. The contents of this email are for the named addressees ...{{dropped:19}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel