Re: [Rd] MS Windows: R does not escape quotes in CLI options the same way as Rterm and Rscript
Now fixed in R-devel Best Tomas On 12/16/21 10:22 AM, Tomas Kalibera wrote: On 12/15/21 10:48 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: On MS Windows 10, the following works: Rscript --vanilla -e "\"abc\"" [1] "abc" and also: Rterm --vanilla --no-echo -e "\"abc.txt\"" [1] "abc.txt" whereas attempting the same with 'R' fails; R --vanilla --no-echo -e "\"abc.txt\"" Error: object 'abc' not found Execution halted I get this with R 4.1.2 and R Under development (unstable) (2021-12-14 r81376 ucrt). Is this a bug? Yes, R.exe does not properly handle quotes (and backslashes preceding a quote, and trailing backslashes). This is the same as PR#18139 for shQuote(). I will put that on my list Best Tomas /Henrik __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] MS Windows: R does not escape quotes in CLI options the same way as Rterm and Rscript
On 12/15/21 10:48 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: On MS Windows 10, the following works: Rscript --vanilla -e "\"abc\"" [1] "abc" and also: Rterm --vanilla --no-echo -e "\"abc.txt\"" [1] "abc.txt" whereas attempting the same with 'R' fails; R --vanilla --no-echo -e "\"abc.txt\"" Error: object 'abc' not found Execution halted I get this with R 4.1.2 and R Under development (unstable) (2021-12-14 r81376 ucrt). Is this a bug? Yes, R.exe does not properly handle quotes (and backslashes preceding a quote, and trailing backslashes). This is the same as PR#18139 for shQuote(). I will put that on my list Best Tomas /Henrik __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
[Rd] MS Windows: R does not escape quotes in CLI options the same way as Rterm and Rscript
On MS Windows 10, the following works: > Rscript --vanilla -e "\"abc\"" [1] "abc" and also: > Rterm --vanilla --no-echo -e "\"abc.txt\"" [1] "abc.txt" whereas attempting the same with 'R' fails; > R --vanilla --no-echo -e "\"abc.txt\"" Error: object 'abc' not found Execution halted I get this with R 4.1.2 and R Under development (unstable) (2021-12-14 r81376 ucrt). Is this a bug? /Henrik __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
