Requal crashing on Windows 11

[hlageek]

I recently upgraded my laptop to Windows 11, now every time I try to load requal in R it crashes immediately. I receive this error message:

Warning: Error in system: 'wmic' not found 89: system

  88: get_volume_paths
  87: observe
  86: <observer>
   3: runApp
   2: print.shiny.appobj
   1: <Anonymous>
Warning: Error in system: 'wmic' not found  89: system
  88: get_volume_paths
  87: observe
  86: <observer>
   3: runApp
   2: print.shiny.appobj
   1: <Anonymous>

Based on my limited understanding, ‘wmic’ is disabled in windows 11. However I am using a work laptop and cannot do this. I have updated to the most recent version of the requal package and I am running the following version of R:

> R.version
               _                                
platform       x86_64-w64-mingw32              
arch           x86_64                          
os             mingw32                         
crt            ucrt                            
system         x86_64, mingw32                 
status                                         
major          4                               
minor          5.1                             
year           2025                            
month          06                              
day            13                              
svn rev        88306                           
language       R                               
version.string R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13 ucrt)
nickname       Great Square Root  

Any advice much appreciated

[hlageek]

Might be related to thomasp85/shinyFiles#163

@skvrnami any chance you could reproduce this with wmic disabled?

Also this may be relevant: https://superuser.com/questions/1178674/wmic-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command-operable-program-or

[nannerstring]

I'm having the exact same issue! Thanks for reporting & attempting to fix.

[hlageek]

@nannerstring thanks for confirming this bug.

Would you mind trying these steps:

1. Install the {remotes} package if you do not have it
   install.packages("remotes")
2. Install Requal from a possibly fixed version
   remotes::install_github("re-qda/requal@fix-177")
3. Restart your R session and try relaunch the Requal app.

Without a Windows machine of my own, I unfortunately cannot replicate the issue or test the fix.

[nannerstring]

That works perfectly, thanks so much!

[hlageek]

Great to hear. Thanks for testing the fix for us 🙇 We'll push the fix to the development branch ASAP, as this bug may affect many users.