Calling ‘Program Files’ folder by its real name Published: August 12th, 2010 — Updated: April 28th, 2019 Leave a comment on Calling ‘Program Files’ folder by its real name Trying to call R from, say Java? C://Program Files/R/R.exe returns an error as the Windows command line has trouble interpreting spaces. Use this call instead: C://program~1/R/R.exe