diff --git a/src/sextante/r/RUtils.py b/src/sextante/r/RUtils.py
index 52cabc873d4..9de6075d325 100644
--- a/src/sextante/r/RUtils.py
+++ b/src/sextante/r/RUtils.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class RUtils:
                        RUtils.getRScriptFilename(), RUtils.getConsoleOutputFilename()]
         else:
             os.chmod(RUtils.getRScriptFilename(), stat.S_IEXEC | stat.S_IREAD | stat.S_IWRITE)
-            command = ["R", "CMD", "BATCH", "--vanilla", RUtils.getRScriptFilename(), RUtils.getConsoleOutputFilename()]
+            command = "R CMD BATCH --vanilla " + RUtils.getRScriptFilename() + " "+ RUtils.getConsoleOutputFilename()
 
         proc = subprocess.Popen(command, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
                                 universal_newlines=True)