RStudio: packrat on Windows fails with special characters in directory name
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Description
In RStudio on Windows 7, I try to create a project in a directory with an & in the folder name (a legal character), in this instance, called ./example&54, with packrat support.
Here are a couple of error messages I get when the project initializes:
Error installing package: Error: ERROR: no packages specified
'54' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Error installing package: Error: ERROR: no packages specified
'54' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
I also had issues installing packages in some cases, with x[, 1]: incorrect number of dimensions errors but I can't reproduce those.
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Research direction
No source file or test is named. Start by reproducing packrat project initialization and package installation on Windows 7 in the ./example&54 directory, then trace the command handling that produces the reported errors; done means initialization and package installation succeed when the path contains &.
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- r
- Domain
- operating-systems, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
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