https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16660 Here is the bug, which R.home may generate a path contains a whitespace.
this will cause Rcpp failed executing sourceCpp > sourceCpp("b:/2018-12-14/src/18020/MCMC.cpp") Error in system(cmd, intern = !showOutput) : 'D:/Program' not found Error in system(cmd, ignore.stderr = TRUE, intern = TRUE) : 'D:/Program' not found Code is tested in both R 3.5.1 and Microsoft R Open 3.5.1. I find a temp solution, is to copy such words into Rprofile: unlockBinding("R.home", baseenv()) utils::assignInNamespace("R.home",function (component = "home") { rh <- .Internal(R.home()) paste0('"',switch(component, home = rh, bin = if (.Platform$OS.type == "windows" && nzchar(p <- .Platform$r_arch)) file.path(rh, component, p) else file.path(rh, component), share = if (nzchar(p <- Sys.getenv("R_SHARE_DIR"))) p else file.path(rh, component), doc = if (nzchar(p <- Sys.getenv("R_DOC_DIR"))) p else file.path(rh, component), include = if (nzchar(p <- Sys.getenv("R_INCLUDE_DIR"))) p else file.path(rh, component), modules = if (nzchar(p <- .Platform$r_arch)) file.path(rh, component, p) else file.path(rh, component), file.path(rh, component)),'"') }, ns="base", envir=baseenv()) lockBinding("R.home", baseenv()) Actually, calling "D:/Program Files/R/R Open/bin/x64"/R is same to calling "D:/Program Files/R/R Open/bin/x64/R" it shows that we could use quote to quote the whitespaces. (although the code seems a little bit ugly) _ platform x86_64-w64-mingw32 arch x86_64 os mingw32 system x86_64, mingw32 status major 3 minor 5.1 year 2018 month 07 day 02 svn rev 74947 language R version.string R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02) nickname Feather Spray [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel