I have cc'ed this to r-help. As I said, I am not on Windows and so cannot help directly.
-- Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Itamar José G. Nunes <nunes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, Bert Gunter. Firstly, thanks for the response. > As you recommended, I tried to check if RStudio could run a R version inside > a whitespace-containing directory. In fact, it takes effect, and this > problem appears to not affect RStudio. > However, I don't have any idea of how it worked. The application that I'm > developing also cannot depend on RStudio, since it requires a portable > version of R. The resolution can be something trivial, such as a correction > of the commas when the inner machinery of R calls the base libraries or > something like that (the Batch language in Windows has such mistakes when > running, and putting commas can solve it). Or else it can be nothing > trivial, such as error that can compromise the executable. If you don't > matter to ask, is there something that I can do about it? Like a correction > in some part of the code. > > Cheers, > Itamar José > > 2016-08-14 18:14 GMT-03:00 Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com>: >> >> I'm not on Windows and cannot help directly. But you might consider >> downloading Rstudio ( https://www.rstudio.com/ ) and running R through >> that. Their website should contain the info you need to get things up >> and running. >> >> Cheers, >> Bert >> >> >> Bert Gunter >> >> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along >> and sticking things into it." >> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Itamar José G. Nunes >> <nunes...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > 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. > > > > > -- > "I am a firm believer that without speculation there is no good and original > observation." - Charles Darwin ______________________________________________ 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.