[Rd] Bug: Issues on Windows with SFN disabled

[Tomas Kalibera]

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
>>
>>     [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>
>