R command problem in positron when publishing from Windows

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I tried the publisher in Positron (2025-03.0+116) and it fails at renv scanning

Could not scan R packages from lockfile: renv.lock, exit status 1. See [Troubleshooting docs](https://github.com/posit-dev/publisher/blob/main/docs/troubleshooting.md) for help.

Looking at the log I see this

time=2025-03-11T18:10:44.855+01:00 level=DEBUG msg="Collecting manifest R packages" local_id=2wZVlqVUa0bAxIjh event_op=publish/getRPackageDescriptions lockfile=c:\Users\chris\Documents\DEV_OTHER\00-TESTS\test-quarto\renv.lock
time=2025-03-11T18:10:44.856+01:00 level=DEBUG msg="Running command" local_id=2wZVlqVUa0bAxIjh event_op=publish/getRPackageDescriptions cmd="C:\\Program Files\\R\\bin\\R.bat" args="-s -e cat(.libPaths(), sep=\"\\n\")"
time=2025-03-11T18:10:44.900+01:00 level=ERROR msg="Error running command" local_id=2wZVlqVUa0bAxIjh event_op=publish/getRPackageDescriptions command="C:\\Program Files\\R\\bin\\R.bat" error="exit status 1"
'C:\Program' n’est pas reconnu en tant que commande interne
ou externe, un programme exécutable ou un fichier de commandes.

The interesting part is

command="C:\\Program Files\\R\\bin\\R.bat" error="exit status 1"
'C:\Program' n’est pas reconnu en tant que commande interne
ou externe, un programme exécutable ou un fichier de commandes.

which is French because I work on French Windows.

It means

command="C:\\Program Files\\R\\bin\\R.bat" error="exit status 1"
'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal
or external command, an executable program or a batch file.

and this is usually a quoting problem when running the command on Windows.

I figured I should report here. If you prefer direct slack message in our Posit slack, tell me the channel to use. Thanks !