From zbbjornson at gmail.com  Sun Sep 17 20:23:58 2017
From: zbbjornson at gmail.com (Zach Bjornson)
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 11:23:58 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Bug: Issues on Windows with SFN disabled
Message-ID: <CAD7tZLXB=73wY9tqLmYhTXyBB9DMO1WZXGz3U9pHz9KgEX4K=Q@mail.gmail.com>

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

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[Rd] Bug: Issues on Windows with SFN disabled
Zach Bjornson