This has now been mostly fixed in R-devel. What remains to be resolved
is that some packages with custom make files cannot be installed from
source (when R is installed into a directory with space in its name and
short file names are not available)
Tomas
On 10/17/2017 10:37 AM, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
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 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 attempts to spawn a new R process also
fails.
This includes a lot of the commands from the popular devtools
package. More
discussion and background:
https://github.com/hadley/devtools/issues/1514
I don't have access to bugzilla to file this there.
Thanks and best,
Zach
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