Greetings, CRAN supporter. I am Itamar José, a Brazilian programmer and biotechnology student. I'm using R from some time ago, most of the time working with it in Windows 7, but since I changed to Windows 10, I'm having some bugs when R platform particularly in this new operational system. If there's not problem, I would like some help from you for what I can do about this issue. I have asked about this problem in StarkOverflow, but no resolution was suggested until now. As I said there, I'm working with a software project that requires the portable version of R platform and my intention is to use R in any version of Windows and in any compatible computer. I'm copying here my answer, as shown below:
*From [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37173431/r-platform-failed-to-start-in-windows-10-when-inside-directory-containing-white <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37173431/r-platform-failed-to-start-in-windows-10-when-inside-directory-containing-white>]Problem:* In Windows 7, R works fine without any worries, even in portable version. However, in Windows 10 (and probably also in Windows 8), R does not start when put the entire folder inside a directory containing whitespaces (ex.: "C:/Users/Main/Documents/My Folder/RVersion"). In Windows 10, with the absence of spaces, R runs fine. In the presence of spaces, all executable (Rscript.exe, R.exe, etc) except Rgui.exe just open a console and closes instantly. The problem is: I really need that R works in any folder (this is a important part of the project). *Additional information:* - I found that R does not work well in directories without the 8dot3 format - and it think that Windows 10 lost this property, which was present in Windows 7. Also, the problem is clear when I run Rgui.exe in a whitespace-containing directory and try to run system("R.exe", intern=TRUE) function: It throws an error indicating that only the part before the first space in directory name was taken into account. Here is the message: > system("R.exe", intern=TRUE) [1] "'C:\\Users\\Main\\DOCUME~1\\My' nÆo ‚ reconhecido como um comando interno" [2] "ou externo, um programa oper vel ou um arquivo em lotes." attr(,"status") [1] 1 Warning message: running command 'R.exe' had status 1 *Translation of messages [1] and [2]: "'C:\...\My'" not recognized as a internal or external command, nor a program operation or dataset* - The same occurs with non-portable version of R, as I already tested. - When I run with a .bat file with the corrected (quoted) directory as input, R.exe runs, but in a disfunctional form and looking like cmd.exe (no R command worked). - I have no ideia how to change variables such as R_HOME to a readable version before R prompt starts. *System/Resources:* - Windows 10 Home 64-bit with the last update. - Dell Notebook with Intel i7-5500U 2.40 GHz (not so relevant, I think) - R and R portable 3.3 (last version until this post), downloaded here: [ https://sourceforge.net/projects/rportable/] <https://sourceforge.net/projects/rportable/%5D> I believe that, with the popularity of Windows 10, many other users could face this problem (specially those who depend of R portability). Because no answers were made, and since it remains as a little known issue, I think the CRAN support is the only one that knows, most than everyone, how to reach the resolution. Thanks in advance! -- "I am a firm believer that without speculation there is no good and original observation." - Charles Darwin [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.