Process R not running

[Andrew.Swan at li.csiro.au]

Thanks! All my problems were solved on installing ESS 5.1.19!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Mincy [mailto:jeff at delphioutpost.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 September 2001 10:33 AM
> To: Andrew.Swan at li.csiro.au
> Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: RE: Process R not running
> 
> 
>    From: Andrew.Swan at li.csiro.au
>    Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:35:38 +1000
>    
>    Hi - Sorry to divert this thread, but....
>    
>    I have a similar problem, using Xemacs 21.1.9 and R1.3.1. 
> But when starting
>    xemacs, I get the following in a *Warnings-Show* buffer:
>    
>    "(1) (initialization/error) An error has occurred while 
> loading ~\.emacs:
>    
>    Symbol's function definition is void: w32-shell-dos-semantics
> 
> 
> essnt204 is not getting loaded.  This was my fix.
> 
> (when (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
>   (autoload 'w32-shell-dos-semantics "essnt204"))
> 
>    ...
>    
>    in .emacs as was suggested, I get closer but the *R* buffer shows:
>    
>    "WARNING: unknown option --no-readline
>    Fatal error: you must specify `--save', `--no-save' or `--vanilla'
>    
> 
> I think this was fixed in the 5.1.19 ess release.
> 
> 
> from essd-r.el in the ess lisp directory you need to have the 
> 'mswindows check.
> 
> (defun R (&optional start-args)
>   .....
>   (let* ((r-always-arg
> 	  (if (or (equal window-system 'w32)
> 		  (equal window-system 'win32)
> 		  (equal window-system 'mswindows))
> 	      "--ess "
> 	    "--no-readline "))
> 
>    
> -jeff
> 
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