Some clarifications and additional data on this bug:
- this has nothing to do with Rtools as such, but applies to finding
any executable with 'Sys.which' that happens to live in a path with
more than 96 characters;
- the issue also occurs when using the 32-bit version of RGui
on Windows 7 64-bit (and also with R.exe at the command line);
- the issue also occurs when using the 32-bit version of RGui
on Windows 7 32-bit (and also with R.exe at the command line).
By means of example, the 'problem details' as given by Windows
when R crashes is pasted below:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Rterm.exe
Application Version: 3.10.65387.0
Application Timestamp: 5347f09a
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17514
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ce7b96e
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000558d4
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Best,
Tobias
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tobias Verbeke" <tobias.verb...@openanalytics.eu>
> To: r-devel@r-project.org
> Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 8:28:54 PM
> Subject: [Rd] R crash using Sys.which on Windows
>
> Dear list,
>
> When installing the latest version of Rtools (3.1.0.1942) into a path that
> contains more than 96 characters on Windows 7 64-bit,
> e.g. into
>
> C:\TheLatestRtoolsInAPathWithMoreThanNinetySixCharactersWillCrashTheRSessionUponCallingTheSysWhichFunctionInRToGetTheGccPath
>
> and assuming that the Rtools bin paths have been appropriately added to the
> PATH environment variable as in
>
> c:\TheLatestRtoolsInAPathWithMoreThanNinetySixCharactersWillCrashTheRSessionUponCallingTheSysWhichFunctionInRToGetTheGccPath\bin;c:\TheLatestRtoolsInAPathWithMoreThanNinetySixCharactersWillCrashTheRSessionUponCallingTheSysWhichFunctionInRToGetTheGccPath\gcc-4.6.3\bin
>
> the following call from RGui 64-bit (version 3.1.0) reproducibly causes R to
> crash:
>
> Sys.which("ls")
>
> Sys.which seems to use an internal function on Windows. Is this a known
> issue?
>
> Please let me know if I can provide any more relevant information.
>
> Best,
> Tobias
>
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